Thursday ended exciting for the Russians (still remember how our President is “friends” with the President of this Latin American country member of the BRICS, of which we were going to carry the meat instead of the European anticyclonic) epic for the ouster of the President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff
Formally it looks as follows. In 2013, become public knowledge information about the huge (for Brazilian, not Russian standards) kickbacks construction companies for the right to cooperate with oil giant Petrobras. Money was spent on election campaign of the party of the President (the previous Rousseff and da Silva, from whom she was the head of the administration), politicians personally. In the summer of 2015, the opposition accused Dilma Rousseff in the tax fraud and illegal use of budget funds to their own election campaign. The work of the investigating authorities and prosecutors have not prevented attempts to withdraw from the prosecution da Silva.
After numerous campaigns against corruption in the higher echelons of power, the national Congress of Brazil 55 votes against, 22 voted for the impeachment, removal from office for a period of 180 days. Rousseff is waiting for the investigation and trial.
In 2012, Paraguay’s lightning fast and has been effectively removed from power the current President. By and large this is the first in Latin America, the military, and the peaceful parliamentary coup. The leftist parliamentary party joined forces with the liberals and Ferdinand Lugo was deprived of his office. The new President, Federico Franco was sworn in after a week, and his predecessor, though, and did not recognize the legitimacy of the decision of the Senate, did not oppose him “for the sake of peace in the country.” According to the decision of Franco in 2013, voluntarily ceded the post of an elected President Horacio Cortes. And no political turmoil.
These two Latin American countries have demonstrated the developing world in that change of power can happen without tantrums and shedding of human blood, the most important component of this is recognizing what is happening the current leader of the country that is not ready to drown the Homeland in blood in order to hold his position at any cost.
In Russia the procedure of impeachment of the President tried to start twice. For the first time in the spring of 1993, which resulted in the October events and the termination of powers of the Supreme Council of people’s deputies. The second attempt in 1999 failed because of the insufficient consolidation of the views of deputies on all counts of the charges against B. N. Yeltsin. In this sense, is a very revealing transcript of a vote on this issue, which still can be found on the website of “Kommersant”. Great in it is visible the position of the liberal democratic party: of the 49 MPs, 47 are simply not picked up the ballots. This is a principled position!
Russia, Zimbabwe, is now with us and Uganda
The Russian foreign Ministry sent a representative to the inauguration of the new old President of Uganda, who work tirelessly for the benefit of his homeland for over 30 years. Does not matter that neither the opposition nor the public does not recognize the election results and provide irrefutable evidence of ballot stuffing in many areas. And let no eye roll is progressive humanity: President Museveni began his career in the power, Partizana against the dictator-cannibal IDI Amin. His many years of activity has led to economic growth (visible from the position of the African countries, and not developed) and even the introduction of a multiparty system. In fact, the blocking of the Internet in the eve of the ceremony, strapped to the capital the troops does not mean the fear of its own people, and the concerns about the many foreign delegations (except the Russian foreign Ministry, there the messenger of Zimbabwe, and several African countries) who come in once again to congratulate the Governor since taking office.
Everything in the house, all in the family
The state Duma has once again demonstrated its commitment to traditional family values. They could not deny their wives, children, sisters and brothers the right to do business and to use their privileged position due to the high position of heads of families.
On may 10 the deputies without further discussion, rejected a bill amending the status of the members of both houses of Parliament concerning the business activity of their close relatives. If these amendments are adopted, a large number of deputies would lose their mandates because their other halves are almost without exception managers or owners of a thriving business, generating income much higher level than some parliamentary salary to 600 thousand rubles.
The Ministry of propaganda, urging people to wash their boots in the Indian ocean?
How much water has flowed since then, as leader of the liberal democratic party has pleased the public catch phrase: “Russian soldiers will wash their boots in the Indian ocean!”.For some time he became calmer, not in the state Duma drags women by the hair, not watering opponents in the debate orange juice. The young shoots and his party learned will repeat after the President felicitous words: “spirituality”, “culture” and “morality”. To learn them and other young people not covered by the powerful ideology of the liberal democratic party, last week, the parliamentary faction has proposed to create in Russia the Ministry of propaganda, which day and night will seek out in the media of extremist materials, “place”, aptly (and original!) called low quality materials the head of the investigative Committee of Russia. By the way, the last plans to carry out a full check of all religious, national, cultural and youth organizations. Apparently, the falcons of Zhirinovsky can’t wait to be part of it.
Font-something than did not please?
This week the Minister of communications and mass media Nikolai Nikiforov entertained the audience twice. First, he told cheerful, like a good Russian cellular and mobile Internet, and good for our operators. The competition between them allows to keep the price at the lowest level in Europe.
The Minister has forgotten that the EU already this year, roaming charges abolished throughout and the fact that almost all of Europe is closed and anonymous free wi-fi that actually use mobile phones, it is unnecessary.
The second pearl g-on Nikiforova related to the import substitution. It turns out that generally accepted in business correspondence font: Times New Romanбыл created for quite unfriendly to his Department newspaper Times. Can the Minister saw these usual eye bukvochki a threat to national security of Russia – unknown. He only offered to replace it on the domestic font, immediately wary: what if along with it we will return the letter “Yat” or some other old Slavic exoticism?
And in London, too find dishonest Russians
British police have arrested a Russian broker, who took part in suspicious trading on the futures markets, was arrested checks for 22 million dollars during the investigation of the laundering of criminal money through two Swiss and Russian firms, with the active participation of offshore investment groups.
By the way, Panama, Vanuatu, Lebanon, Nauru and Bahrain acceded to the automatic exchange of information between G20 countries, whose sole purpose is to identify individuals who use offshore tax evasion in his homeland. Now fans good save have to move the money.
Burn the house of his neighbor
Not a day goes by that Chechnya did not please Russia news that in any other region would have reacted to the criminal chronicle. And there getting away with it. The maximum that can be expected, it is humorous: “Dad shook his finger”, necessarily seasoned with approval many other merits and additional budgetary injections.
So, for may 9, two young men were attacked at a checkpoint (one being a suicide bomber blew himself up), on Wednesday at the same time burned the houses of their relatives. Causes of explosions are local law enforcement officers promised to do, but so far the results of the investigation is not known.
In memory immediately POPs up the history of the end of 2014, when the President of Russia declared about the inadmissibility of breaking the law even in Chechnya after on the orders of the head of Chechnya were demolished 15 houses of those who committed the terrorist act in Central Grozny. Apparently, the presidential directives there is no direct power.
The judges saluted and retired
At the end of last week the displeasure of Ramzan Kadyrov was awarded the chief justice of the Republic and three ordinary judges. Disregarding the Russian Constitution, he allowed himself to recommend to the representatives of the other branches of government to resign. Two of the judges immediately wrote a statement about wanting to leave his post. The chief justice of the Republic expressed hope that the President will deal with the situation, as it was last time, when he also criticized the activities of the courts.
However, according to unconfirmed reports, he has already sent his resignation to the High qualification Board of judges.
Till death do us part
No, it’s not about lovers who go through life hand in hand, celebrate diamond wedding, and leave this world one day and hour. It’s about Russian officials who have a nightmare to this day loomed care for a well-deserved retirement with a pension component and 75% of their monthly allowance. Now this category of citizens will be able to happily exist in their familiar leather chairs before 65 and 63 years for men and women respectively. Naturally, those who had not yet existing experience to select the maximum possible pension, and now the opportunity is available.
I remember there was talk that the age of retirement will decline with the advent of each new (or adopted) child. And officials is also affected?
News of the Crimea, as news reports
However, otherwise the “nice” Prosecutor Natalya Poklonskaya not with armadas of enemy equipment. Lady, recorded during the passage in the column “Immortal regiment” to his relatives, and at the same time and in the number of deaths in the great Patriotic war of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II, is mopping up the ideological field.
If anyone happened to live under the Soviet regime and to listen to “Radio Liberty” at night, nestled up with my ear to the radio, risking for this article, they can go to the Crimea and to experience such “joy” ordinary Builder of communism. This week blocked the online “Crimea. Realities”, which is a division of “Radio Liberty”. Those wishing to learn a different official, the Crimean point of view on everything, or have to risk their freedom, or to move to other regions of the country, which is (still!) you can hear the “enemy’s voice”.
And if Russia needs the World Cup?
This question arises in the eve who had become scandalous, the coming football of the world championship.
In Moscow and St.-Petersburg now are games of the world hockey championship. According to the organizing Committee for the games without the participation of the Russian team sold 70% of tickets, with her participation – all left before the start of the tournament. But, as practice has shown, these data are more than optimistic. In the offices of both capitals to the launch games had more than half of the tickets. If this goes on, Russia will interrupt a series of ever-growing attendance, which was observed in Minsk, Prague and Ottawa.
To find that the reasons are not far to seek.
The economic crisis did to the Russians spending on buying tickets is irrelevant. Foreigners, spoiled Western service, simply did not reach the issue of visas into the country, which at first promised a completely visa-free regime, then the simplified scheme. Those who still dare to come, noted the “messy” bureaucratic delays. Besides, in this mode, the possible spontaneous trip: the team went to the quarterfinals of a sudden, people in Europe can at lunch to get tickets, a night out at the stadium, and in the morning to go, as if nothing had happened, to work. With Russia, this trick does not work. Besides, a little activity was shown by the Russian tourist company, advertising was weak in the country and abroad.
In light of this big question, what interest will cause in the upcoming 2018 football world Cup, and will not appear if it was a second-rate event as the ice hockey world championship. And billions of investments in sports facilities leave in the sand, not having to please anyone: neither the athletes nor the spectators?
News of the Russian show-business
On “Eurovision” among the Russian delegation was an embarrassment that casts doubt on the near-final results of the competition. One of 5 members of the Russian jury, Anastasia Stotskaya, have allowed themselves to broadcast the debate arising among the judges in the Periscope. She let go of the ambiguous jokes in the address of the Dutch and Armenian participants. Her part in the vote declared invalid.
Fortunately, the incorrect behavior Stotsky does not affect the results for Sergey Lazarev.
And news of Russian cinema
The head of “Roskino” was forced to admit that in 2016, from already released films, the cost paid for itself just one “ground Crew, which cleared a disciple of Alexander Mitta, the film Director of the same name of the first Soviet disaster movie. At the same time, annually allocated from the Federal budget to Finance the supposedly win-win films 6 billion, which by Hollywood standards ($90 million) is a sturdy budget through passage of the film. The cause has yet to figure out, but from the bureaucratic point of view it lies in the lack of proper control over the use of subsidies.
Well, Yes, and probably James Cameron’s lost any desire to be creative, if you stick to it a couple of sour Russian clerks from the art.
That’s all, time to go to see if anyone had done “the First avenger: confrontation.”
