Archive for 'Politics' Category
Members’ of the parliament discipline
The State Duma (Russian parliament) is world wide notorious for fights between members of the parliament and also for the way plenary meetings of the State Duma are held. It is almost a rule that only 20-40%% of the total membership present during voting even if a very important bill is being considered. If this [...]
The Putin System
I’ve just watched an enough interesting documentary about the Russian political system and its evolution. It presents a specific point of view. And I want to mention that it is not against Putin as it could be estimated, it’s just about character of the Russian political system. I don’t know anything about CBC copyright, but [...]
NATO supports drug dealers!
Last week there were announced that NATO wouldn’t destroy Afghan poppy fields. But everyone knows that this is a raw material to produce opium and heroin. Does it mean that the US and the UK want to import these drugs into their countries? Or they want to import this poison into Russia? Some more information [...]
Should The West be scared of Russia?
Today I met a very interesting BBC documentary on YouTube. The most interesting thing of this film is that it contains not only the USA and other Western country’s point of view, but the Russian point of view as well. This film is about the main events of the last two decades and about the [...]
Roads and fools
Here in Russia we have one proverb which means that Russia has only two troubles. They are roads and fools. Also here are many jokes around this proverb. For instance, some people like to say that the another problem is when fools try to repair roads, and this is more scaring trouble for Russia. And [...]
The VIP person’s tax returns
Recently the President of The Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev and the Chairman of the Russian government Vladimir Putin published their tax returns 2008. D.Medvedev’s amount of income was 4.139.726 rubles (about 120.000 US dollars) and V.Putin’s amount of income was about 4.700.000 rubles (about 135.000 US dollars). But D.Medvedev owned more expensive property than V.Putin. [...]