On Wednesday, toward evening, became aware of the tragic news. At the age of 91 years died the famous international journalist Valentin Zorin of the USSR. Within 2 decades it is from him that the Soviet people learned how the other half lives, there is far overseas think and say about the country, building the bright Communist future, where is the party leadership and how it fought heroically defending our safety among the jackals of decaying capitalism.
Valentin Sergeyevich, when he was not in foreign missions, was the presenter of the most popular transmissions: “in the world Today” and “Studio 9”, “international panorama” and “Leninist University of millions”. Due to his work opened the secret lives of ordinary Americans and what they are not so different from citizens of the USSR, not counting the obvious higher income and housing. A series of TV movies of the seventies America’s popularity could compete with the broadcasts of football and hockey matches.
During his brilliant career was not such a political leader who would not give him an interview. When Mikhail Gorbachev the only master in the international arena, Valentin Zorin accompanied him as an expert or adviser. He was international Advisor of the delegation of the USSR on 3 sessions of the UN General Assembly.
Until the last of his days Valentin Zorin worked extensively, since 2000, the political analyst of radio “Voice of Russia”, and in 2014 – the Agency “Russia today”.
First run the second time
The main show this week at the cosmodrome East. The launch of the spacecraft itself – a spectacle from which every person wakes up pride in the power and strength of mind of a terrestrial civilization. And then there’s a new launch pad that can replace the now old and located on the territory of another country Baikonur.
But…
In the night of April 27, something went wrong and, despite the fact that the ceremony was attended personally by the President of Russia, the launch had to be stopped. After they sat down warplanes and helicopters (one of them is Vladimir Putin and planned to observe the historic launch of the rocket) landed, the Vice-Premier Rogozin and head of Roscosmos Mosquitoes had a private 15-minute conversation with the head of state. Very unhappy the President has decided not to let things drift and stayed overnight at the spaceport. Then on the morning of 28 April, the rocket simply could not take off.
On Thursday it became known that senior officials received official sanction: Rogozin, a reprimand, and Mosquitoes – a severe reprimand.
From the sensation couldn’t stand aside and the Russian Orthodox Church. Protodeacon Kurayev said that because the launch was not held liable and Bishop, which covered the aircraft. It’s on the Internet community responded to the proposal to return to old Soviet traditions: on the body of the rocket, as on Board the ship, broke a bottle of champagne. And maybe the truth: hymns and incense with Space flight are incompatible?
Russia can not build a car to its President
About the project of the presidential limousine, code-named “Procession” from time to time said a few years. Told me that the main country vehicle will be assembled exclusively from domestic components, on our “rising from the ashes” plants. AvtoVAZ, realizing that the task is very heavy, chose to withdraw from this task of national importance (not in connection with this the Swede Bo Andersson was dismissed?). And that “Ford Sollers and UAZ did not pull, was understood by all but the officials of the Ministry of industry and trade.
And here’s sensational news. So you can do a new car with premium at least to the presidential election in 2018, will again go to pay homage to the monsters of the world auto industry. The project “Cortege” in a hurry to connect the Austrian “Magna” and not yet named manufacturers. And they have to hurry up and the worthless, to the President drove to the Kremlin, to the 4-th time to step up your responsible position, on an old six-meter Mercedes S600 Pullman Guard.
The juicy details of offshore scandal
Just the story of 2 billion dollars found in the accounts of the offshore company, which belongs to a friend-the cellist of the President of Russia Sergey Roldugin, was to go with the first news of the bands as revealed a new twist.
It turns out that it was there settled means that has detected the loss of which Sergey Magnitsky, has been martyred in the SIZO “Matrosskaya Tishina”. Then it was that $ 230 million from the Russian budget were returned as “overpaid” Fund Hermitage Capital Management after a complete change of ownership.
The last friend “not a friend, not an enemy, as well”
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, famous for its sparkling statements no less than Viktor Chernomyrdin, this week said he was “disgusted to hear of the partisan mouthpieces of Russia” and that “Russia must understand that the Belarusians will not be errand boys”. What was the reason for such turbulent emotions at the head of the brotherly people, remained unknown. But logically they are perfectly linked with the recent visit of Lukashenko to Turkey, where during a dinner with Erdogan on the boat they agreed to “reset” political and economic relations.
In early April, Lukashenko was going to “continue the line for the full normalization of relations and deepening of cooperation with the EU in the context of national interests”.
Patriotic terror has become the norm in Russia
Im not even going seem to be engaged in law enforcement.
In Moscow on Thursday near the house of cinema, in which the society “memorial” held the final event of the all-Russian competition “Man in history” was an attack on Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Russian writer, the only one at present, whose works are translated into almost all languages of the world. She poured green paint the face, hair, clothes. Other participants were attacked with sharp-smelling liquid, presumably ammonia. One person got a tincture of iodine directly in the eye.
Got a minor and the participants of the contest who was researching the lives of their grandfathers and great grandfathers, were looking about them with archival materials, found old photographs, documents.
Aggressive actions were carried out by members of the Patriotic movement of NOD (National Liberation Movement), dressed in tunic. Everyone the clothes were wearing St. George’s ribbons.
Metropolitan police calmly looked at the situation and did not intervene.
Mikhail Prokhorov decided “not to twitch”?
A couple of weeks ago were all stunned by the search, which was conducted in the Central office of the company, ONEXIM, owned by Mikhail Prokhorov. And that reaction was not long in coming. In business circles discussed the fact that the oligarch began negotiating the sale of media holding RBC, which is almost the only source of independent news in Russia, and energy company “Quadra-power generation”.
No one doubts that Prokhorov does not go around the world, but if he will do what is required of him, he didn’t even have to leave Russia. He already showed his willingness to negotiate with the authorities, when immediately after the election of 2012 has officially congratulated the newly elected President of Russia, and then quickly disappeared from the political horizon. It was an unexpected success, and he bypassed candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky, was too dangerous for him.
Extinguishing tanker is recognized inexpedient
In the Caspian sea on Wednesday burned a Russian tanker, is assigned to the port in Taganrog. MOE after studying the situation and by agreement with the owner of a vessel issued a verdict: the tanker must burn himself. Rescuers said that was installed the death of one man from the crew numbers 11 – the engineer. The rest evacuated. A little earlier we were talking about that on the ship there were 18 people. Now who knows the truth?
In this regard, as not to remember the old Soviet film “Panic Sunday” in which for the salvation of the French tanker in one of the seaside resorts were involved all the forces of the port of firefighters from nearby towns. Now such heroism is out of fashion.
Where is the vaunted counter-terrorism measures?
On the eve of 9 may in Vnukovo happened in a Christmas story, is exactly the same as in the U.S. the family film “home Alone-2”. 11 the girl was able easily to overcome all the security measures taken at airports due to the threat of terrorist acts, got on the plane without a ticket and flew quietly alone in St Petersburg.
Ground services desperate traveler has overcome along with a large family, and in the cabin of the aircraft that were available free space and Board guides are not particularly attentive to children seated separately.
Against this background of family turmoil in the family of the girl fade: what happens in my life. Fugitives at this age is not uncommon.
Funny sad news
Over the weekend it became known that Olga Okudzhava, widow of the famous poet Bulat Okudzhava, who was dismissed from the post of Director of the Museum’s own husband. The reason was the unwillingness of Olga Okudzhava agree with the initiative of the Minister of culture of Russia to create a unified Museum complex that includes several house-museums of famous Russian authors.
The Internet community calls the deliberate humiliation of the widow of the bard with the gift of the Russian authorities on the day of birth: veteran Okudzhava was born on may 9, the day of the great feast.
The memory of Akhmad Kadyrov in the Northern capital to perpetuate until
In St. Petersburg on Monday in the closed mode has passed meeting of the toponymic Commission, which addressed the issue of assigning the name of the father acting head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov Akhmad Kadyrov to any urban object. This initiative was made by the infamous Deputy Vitaly Milonov, who was joined by one of the Chechen charities. While St. Petersburg officials were able to reject an application on formal grounds: complete document no opinion on the matter of Council of veterans of the Chechen community in the city. The Governor put it more sharply: Akhmad Kadyrov “has never been directly involved in the life of the city.”
For example, in Moscow the name of this once field commander “won” a street in the South Butovo.
For reference: Akhmad Kadyrov in 90-e years were headed by the Mufti of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, which proclaimed the independence of Dzhokhar Dudayev. In 1994, he first declared Jihad of Russia.
Don’t you dare talk bad about the “Kalash”
Resonance was proposed by deputies of the Leningrad region. After the insult of national anthem of Russia, they consider it necessary to introduce punishment for disrespect to the unofficial symbols of Russia. To these characters the legislators include: the Moscow Kremlin and St. Basil’s Cathedral, the sacred cause of the Tsar bell and the Tsar cannon, all the heraldry of the Romanov and Rurikovich (and don’t say you don’t know what it is), all the state awards of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union (and why not Kievan Rus?), the image of the Soviet soldier-liberator, propaganda poster “the Motherland calls!”, T-34 tank and a Kalashnikov.
The penalty for the distortion of these symbols can be up to 150 thousand rubles.
And what now, “Mission impossible 4” was forbidden?
The truth about the legendary Soviet spy
In the period when the whole country is preparing to celebrate another day of great Victory it would be interesting to share a little prosaic and normal for the Russian history.
In those “dashing 90-e” in one of the Moscow hospitals has died an unremarkable elderly man. Next to him, never daring to step on duty his wife, with whom he lived for 50 years. And here on 14 December 1994, the hospital was approached by a tuple of government armoured vehicles. In the ward of the departed chief of the General staff of the Russian army, General of the army Mikhail Kolesnikov and the head of the Main intelligence Directorate of the General staff (GRU), Colonel-General Fedor Ladygin. There they solemnly read out the decree of the President about assignment to Yankel the Pinkhusovich Chernyak the title of Hero of Russia. “Gold Star” and the documents confirming its authenticity, were transferred to the wife of a man who was no longer able to adequately perceive what is happening.
10 days later at the funeral of General Kolesnikov casually told journalists that the deceased was a prototype movie hero adored by the whole country – Maxim Maximovich Isaev, the Stirlitz, Yulian Semyonov when creating the image of the scout with him regularly consulted.
This man throughout his life had no awards and military honors. A grateful country did not find it necessary even to grant him a decent pension and an apartment. He is the last of his days he lived in a remote area of the capital and went to work on the subway. Being an old and sick man he worked to live-that on something it was necessary) a translator at the TASS. It available 7 languages and excellent memory were in demand at all times.
Eternal memory to the hero.
