Organizing is always more difficult than prohibiting. Therefore, when the authorities in our country are unable to resolve the issue, they introduce a ban. This is especially noticeable in the road sector. We have no one to build roads, which is why speed limit signs “40” are so common. The traffic police are unable to regulate traffic, so fines are increasing. Nobody knows how to organize parking, so tow trucks appeared.

On September 10, the Russia-Wales match began the qualifying round for the 2010 World Cup for our football team. The situation for the national team is, of course, very difficult. At the European Championships, we set the bar not just high, but unprecedented for ourselves. And now the main question is this: was the result at the Euro the result of the work of competent coaches with good players, or was it an emotional outburst?

Now everyone is concerned about the decline in industrial growth in Russia, which, according to independent monitoring data from VTB Europe Bank and the Institute for the Economy in Transition, will be one of the worst in August since 1999. After May growth of 6.7%, in June industry unexpectedly slowed down to 0.9%. This was an accident, experts hoped. But July turned out to be only slightly better – 3.2%, Rosstat stated. And now it’s August...

After the general director of the channel, Alexander Rodnyansky, left STS this summer, the most talked about “Stories in Details” was that they too would soon disappear. But no, to the envy of their enemies, and to the spectators a feast for the eyes, Sergei Mayorov’s team opened the sixth season. “I swear, I have no idea where these rumors came from!” – Sergei is surprised. – Apparently, this is due to the fact that Rodnyansky always treated us as his favorite television creation.

According to a recent VTsIOM survey, every fifth Russian does not believe that the state will protect him from new terrorist attacks. “Is the government capable of resisting terrorists?” – we asked people. Svetlana Leonova, lost her mother in the terrorist attack on Pushkinskaya: – Today I feel more secure than in those years. Probably, some kind of work is being done by the state. But I cannot finally believe that absolutely all channels of terrorism have been blocked.

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Last week, President Medvedev remarked: “The world has become different after August 8.” However, it is not so much the world that has changed as our attitude towards it. And his attitude towards us. And in fact, who would have thought a month ago that Western countries, which had recently so advocated for the right of nations to self-determination, would embrace the Kremlin’s concept of “sovereign democracy” with such enthusiasm.

Thanks...to a maniac? At the Russian Language Olympiad, the following task is given: find the mistake in the sentence “Thanks to the hurricane, thousands of people were left homeless.” Everything here is grammatically correct, but where is the error? In modern Russian, the preposition “thanks” has not lost its semantic connection with the verb “to thank” and is used only when there is really something to thank for.

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In Tosno, alimony workers are sent to the army. In the Tosnensky district department of the Federal Bailiff Service of Russia in the Leningrad region, they invented a new way to deal with alimony workers: now they will be called up for military training. Local bailiffs have 850 potential servicemen under their control.

News about technological innovations from Russian manufacturers is, alas, rare, but we will soon be able to not only admire one of them. It can be purchased and put to good use. This is the new communicator RoverPC X7, which was announced by our company Rover Computers. News about technological innovations from Russian manufacturers is, alas, rare, but we will soon be able to not only admire one of them. It can be purchased and put to good use.

For a healthy person, nasal drops – just a popular medicine. For someone who has become dependent on them, this is a vital thing. For a healthy person, nasal drops are just a popular medicine. For someone who has become dependent on them, this is a vital thing. It is believed that once you are hooked on vasoconstrictor drops, you are hooked forever. It's not all so sad! You can cope with this, including on your own, if the experience of drop addiction is 3–5 months.

Many are now inclined to recognize the live broadcast of Gergiev’s concert from Tskhinvali by the Rossiya and Kultura channels as the phenomenon of the year. In principle, this is, of course, a television thing. This is what TV is created for – for extra-spatial connection. And the effect that performance had was amazing. Otherwise, all the wealth of cultural life in our country has been reduced to a very narrow segment of cheap pop music.

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While the former head of Chukotka, Roman Abramovich, is preparing to be elected to the State Duma, the new governor of the district (and protégé of the old one) Roman Kopin is mastering the region he inherited. Discharge Politician Before his appointment in April of this year as Abramovich’s deputy, no one on the “mainland” had heard of Kopin. The current governor has this trait - he knows how to remain invisible until the right moment.