By virtue of my profession as a journalist, I often need to fly in airplanes, including frequent flights from Domodedovo airport. And indeed, I’m writing this article right before I need to head out for yet another flight. I can just imagine how strenuously everybody and their brother is going to be patting me down today. Because in today’s Russia, there exist not two, as it is customary to call them, misfortunes – fools and roads, but many more. We also have the misfortuntune of constantly “beating at tail,” by imposing obsolete measures as a reaction to symptoms rather than causes of tragic events. It’s happened that way a thousand times already. And since this is repeated, then , it means, real measures to prevent a cataclysm haven’t been adopted even once. Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. Year in and year out, in December on the eve of the next festivities on account of the Day of the FSB, the country’s leadership (and it, as is known, has either come out of this agency (Putin), or loves this agency very much (Medvedev) recount to trusting Russians about how hundreds (!) of terrorist acts have been prevented by the valiant chekists. And they always propose to us to believe them at their word. I do not believe a single word from this organization and these leaders.