In fact, I liked the performance of Marat Gelman and comrades in the Public Chamber about the general plan of Moscow. This is a rare case when someone was indignant and allowed himself to tell Yuri Mikhailovich: no, we do not want to be “like that”. This can develop into a real resistance, if you connect a huge number of people, use the Internet and arrange a variety of civil actions up to letters to the president. It is important to show: we Muscovites do not want to live in such a city.

Not at all decorative red banners on the acropolis - a sign of awakening a social volcano, which began to swing Europe from below, in addition to the Icelandic natural smoky peak. Greece is the source of the first, who arose along with civilization as such, utopias about the Champs Elysees and Blessed Islands. And Dostoevsky in the “dream of a funny man” localizes the coming, not very stable earthly paradise on the Aegean archipelago.

No matter how strange it sounded, everything that has been made, written and removed recently about the Great Patriotic War, once again confirmed that the country needed modernization, and society - engineers. And not only in order to build and raise industry, but because besides techies today there is simply no one to restore order in our mythology.

The widow of Academician Sakharov, a dissident, a human rights activist, the stands - a chain of definitions that come to mind at the mention of Elena Bonner, can continue for a long time, but not everyone knows that she got to the front, lost her closest in the war. In an interview with Snob magazine, she emphasizes that he says precisely as a veteran and disabled person who retained his personal memory of the war * * * Question: Let's start with the beginning of the war.

From the editorial office. May 9 marks the 65th anniversary of the end of the most tragic historical event for Russia - the Great Patriotic War. According to the updated reports of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation during the war years, the Soviet Union lost 26.5 million people. So we still suffer from what happened more than half a century ago. Unfortunately, this truly great holiday, which should unite Russians, disconnects them.

From the editorial office. May 9 marks the 65th anniversary of the end of the most tragic historical event for Russia - the Great Patriotic War. According to the updated reports of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation during the war years, the Soviet Union lost 26.5 million people. So we still suffer from what happened more than half a century ago. Unfortunately, this truly great holiday, which should unite Russians, disconnects them.

The case with the master plan of Moscow, which was adopted by the Moscow City Duma by a majority of votes, indicates primarily the justice of the old truth, which absolute power is completely corrupting. Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov has not been controlled by anyone. Accordingly, in the city, he created a system of power, which the witty for a long time was already nicknamed "Luzhkarii".

From the editorial office. May 9 marks the 65th anniversary of the end of the most tragic historical event for Russia - the Great Patriotic War. According to the updated reports of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation during the war years, the Soviet Union lost 26.5 million people. So we still suffer from what happened more than half a century ago. Unfortunately, this truly great holiday, which should unite Russians, disconnects them.

The fact that the calls of the Public Chamber were not heard that the participants of the rallies against the general plan were detained, in general, that the adoption of the general plan turned into a public scandal is very regrettable. However, there are nuances.