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December 17, 2007 №96

Politics

Grey silence

I belong to the generation of those who are thirty years old and who grew up and matured on the ruins of the Soviet country. We did not fight for freedom; it came to us as a present. Maybe, it’s not always that we appreciated it, but the...

For deeds performed

Wednesday, the awarding ceremony for laureates, nominees and finalists of the competition for the Award “Journalism as Deed” after Sakharov was held in the public centre after Andrei Sakharov. Evgeny Sholokh, the journalist from...

Lukashenko getting bayonet

It seemed that visit by Putin to Minsk and the talks with Lukashenko had ended in favor of the latter. Putin arrived on the eve of the official talks, had a dinner with Lukashenko in a ski center, and in the morning the both leaders laid...

Society

Concise course on mutual understanding

That was very touching when Vladislav Totrov, deputy minister of education and science of North Ossetia, and Ismail Tankiev, minister of education of Ingushetia, came up together to express their gratitude to Sir Michael Barber for the...

Take at least books

The staff of the information centre of the British Council in Krasnoyarsk is dismissed from 28 December. The problems began to appear in spring. It was obvious that exclusion of British Council (BC) was a trend and no one had illusions...

Broken English

The aphorism is getting dated that in Russia optimists learn English, pessimists learn Chinese and realists learn how to use Kalashnikov. The number of optimists has decreased significantly. Russian government has ordered that starting...

To eliminate political life

Few remember what an undesirable funeral is, accompanied with police cordon, with civil funeral rites where speeches are recorded by inconspicuous people with grey faces. 14 December exactly such an event took place at the Ivanovskoe...
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