The man from the magazine cover and the country in ruins

Grigory Pasko, journalist

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In the last new year holidays Time brought joy to the whole world by recognizing Putin as person of the year. Putin liked that.

Now it’s a different person – Barack Obama. It’s doubtful that Putin likes this.

The young oppositioneer Roman Dobrokhotov after he with his outcries had interrupted an appearance of president Medvedev and security had led him out of the hall wrote in livejournal: «They dragged me off to the office of the FSO [federal protection service–GP] and started to interrogate, finding out about my zhzh [«ЖЖ», the Russian abbreviation for “LiveJournal”, by which the portal is known in the country–Trans.] and the movement “My” Some kind of gray-haired general-chekist came in, conversed, went out and when he closed the door (slamming it just a tiny bit) the ceiling came crashing down in the office. The general got frightened, opened the door back a crack, looked at the collapsed ceiling: “Did I just do that?”, – asked. No-no, not you, they waved him off and he left».