Last issues
Russian movement towards the strategic alliance with USA
As of today USA can become real ally and defender of Russian people.
2009 totals and antitotals
USSR KGB officials while detaining a person in the airport who was giving out leaflets to people found out that this person was giving out not leaflets but blank peaces of paper and answering KGB’s puzzled question says: What else could be written? Everything is clear to everyone! USSR time anecdote.
The “rigid” mania of the President Putin
What is the difference between a common human being and that who’s chosen politics as his field of action? A common human being acts according to his own aims, ambitions and views. A politician has to act in the interests of the society which he wants to represent. It especially refers to the politicians who have a real power, to state and public figures. There is no such sententia as “don’t want”, “don’t like”, “don’t wish” for political figures.
Ingooshetia – is it possible to drive the Caucasus when the driving-belts are torn off?
That the action in Ingooshetia had elements of some kind of private message to Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is obvious first of all due to its date: they made the blitzkrieg on Ingooshetia on June 22 at night. For those who still can’t catch the idea we remind: Kadirov, the symbol of the putinskaya apology to say “victory” in Chechnya, was extinguished on May 9, the Victory Day. The Great Patriotic War ended on May 9 in 1945. And it began on June 22. Perhaps, that’s the reason the successor is so much troubled with the events in Ingooshetia?
Open letter to Sir Roderick Lyne, HM Ambassador to the Russian Federation.
Honourable Sir! Perhaps, you have already forgotten the interview you gave to the “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” in the end of May (the interview was published in the newspaper on May 31, 2004). I suppose the interview was a part of your performance of the arduous duties you have to perform as the Ambassador. Therefore, by definition, it cannot contain any revelation. My congratulations: it really contains no such thing. It turned out to be a very restrained and tactful text.
Kadyrov is dead, the Chechen knot is undone and, together with it, the Russian knot is possibly undone too
There is a long-standing tradition of the opposition press to bring accusations against Valdimir Vladimirovich that he has not done anything at all in Chechnya in the elapsed five years. On the balance this judgement is utterly unfair. Indeed, after his notorious appeal “to blot them out in lavatories” Mr. Putin has performed a really titanic work.
Official incomes of the chief officials were increased. What good may gilding of the already rotten parts do?
On April, 10 some fine man by name Vladimir Vladimirovich signed on behalf of the Russian President the decree of “improvement of the government officials payment”. In the strict accordance with this historic document the RF President service will cost taxpayers 72 000 $, the services offered by the other participants of the so-called “vertical power” will cost from 1000 to 3000 $ monthly per each person. Is it good or bad?
Who forbids the Russians to be champions of liberty?
Looking at the scanty and rich only in a certain sense variety of what may with great reservation be called opposition, democratic or liberal, sooner or later one cannot but ask oneself some reasonable questions. The reason is the remarkable transformation of the concept “liberal” which is getting a semantics, if I may say so, quite irrelevant to the original one. The semantic field of the concept is getting wider, and that’s to the good, no doubt, but it widens in such a strange way that Gottlob Frege would have had to remake his semiotic triangle into a parallelepiped or repeal it at all.
There was a dumb question in Medvedev’s eyes: “Am I talking sense?”
When Mr. Medvedev, Chief of the administration, was presenting the fruit of brainwork (as if it was his and at the same time presidential one) it was obvious he had confidence neither in himself, nor in the fruit nor in whose brainwork it was of. It looked like an exam from the student ages past and gone. The only difference was that in that case not only the student but the professor as well displayed his complete ignorance of the subject. Medvedev asked the President with his eyes “Am I talking sense?”. But the President himself seemed having no idea.