Russia must become a country which attracts people from around the world to realize their dreams.

Two weeks later well-known politologist Nikolay Zlobin answered him in his blog (translated from Russian).

The country where even the citizens do not risk to move from place to place looking for the best work, earnings or way of life, can not become attractive for foreigners any way. Some of them, certainly, will be tempted of presidential invitation. However at the heart of their motivation will be privileges and the high salaries promised by Mr. Medvedev. They will come as temporary residents who are looking down on native Russians and will look at their Russian home absolutely the same as Europeans century ago looked at their homes in colonies.

Being not fully agree with Mr. Zlobin, in many respects, however, in this case I think this is the best comment of the Russian President’s words. In fact, it already had been during the last 20 years. Over these years, many foreigners came to Russia. They came, attracted of big salary, which paid them by foreign as well as local employers (because they are foreigners), or the wide field for speculation, speculation in the literal sense. Maybe you remember Mr. Behgjet Pacolli. Of course, Mr.Medvedev had meant, Russia must become like America, the country of unlimited possibilities. So he must understand, Russia could become such country if it will become the country of unlimited possibilities for its own citizens at first. But for it Mr. Medvedev does not need foreigners.

Russian police have seized 100,000 copies of a book criticising Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The book, entitled Putin. Results. 10 years, was being transported by truck when the vehicle was stopped by police in Sankt-Petersburg. The police said the seizure was due to a lack of valid documentation, according to the Interfax news agency.

The book, written by former deputy prime minister Boris Nemtsov and economist Vladimir Milov, questions the ‘myth’ of Putin, blaming him for rampant corruption and growing poverty. ‘We want everyone in the country to know who Vladimir Putin really is,’ Nemtsov said at a recent launch of the book.

The text of the book in Russian avaliable on site: http://www.putin-itogi.ru/doklad

27(14) of May 1905 Russian the 2nd Pacific squadron under command by Vice Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky met in the Tsushima strait with the Royal Japanese navy under command by admiral Heihachiro Togo. After more then 5 hours battle 4 Russian battleships were seriously damaged and sank, between them was Rozhestvensky’s flag-ship “Knyaz Suvorov”. Before the ship sank, Rozhestvensky was transferred to the destroyer “Buiny”. Command devolved to Rear Admiral Nikolai Nebogatov. During the night, several Russian ships were sunk by torpedo attacks of Japaneese destroyers. When the sun rose the next morning, Heihachiro  Togo moved in to engage the remnants of Russian squadron. They met again and having only six ships Nebogatov hoisted the signal to surrender.  Admiral Rozhestvensky surrendered later this day on board of the destroyer “Bedovyi”.

More information here http://tsushima.su in Russian and http://www.russojapanesewar.com/tsushima.html in English

10 minutes fragment from Japaneese movie Nihonkai Daikaisen ( “Great Naval Battle in the Sea of Japan”), directed by Seiji Maruyama, 1969.

Unfortunately until now nobody made such movie about this battle in Russia, but it maybe could be better then the Mikhalkov’s horrible movie, falled down in Cannes.

Over 10,500 servicemen and more than 150 pieces of land-based military equipment will take part in the Moscow parade on May 9, RIA news agency informed. A total of 165 combat aircraft will fly over Red Square, with some of them grouping to form the number 65.

The parade will involve a procession of military personnel from all branches of the Russian Armed Forces, guest units from nine CIS countries, the United States, Great Britain, France and Poland, and a large military orchestra, followed by displays of military hardware and a flyover by combat aircraft.

The agency did not inform only that all center of Moscow will be blocked for traffic these days, on Thursday May 6, for the parade rehearsal and on May 9, for the parade. More, the main way from Moscow to Vnukovo international airport will blocked for traffic between May 7 and 10, because a number of heads of states will visit Moscow. The parade for guests and blocked city for Muscovites, this is Russian Victory day.

Photo from top.rbc.ru

“North Caucasus group”, said Federal Security Service chief Aleksandr Bortnikov during the meeting in the Kremlin on Monday, a few hours later after the explosions in the Moscow underground killed 38 and injured more then 60. Nobody of the Russian officials said “Chechnya”, they try not to focus at national problems, but that traces came from the Northern Caucasus they have no doubt. Opposition, meanwhile, recalled that after similar terrorist attacks in 1999, 2002, 2004, the Kremlin each time abolished more and more democratic institutions step by step. A well-known Putin critic, politologist Andrey Piontkovsky suggests very transparently, the explosions in the Moscow underground could be a provocation to bring Putin presidency again. It is reality the situation in the North Caucasus is not under full control, as Federals say. No doubt, the terrorist attacks early really served a good service for Mr.Purin in his politics. Nevertheless, it would be so horrible if to believe in the provocation with political targets.

I know nothing about RABFAK group. It is something like folk-pank, anyway it is funny, but not only. The song “Tovarisch Medvedev” (literally as traditional soviet address: “comrade Medvedev”) sounds like dialog. Chorus asked:  “we go in fog having seen nothing”, that means, where we have to go,  and a voice, sounding like real Medvedev’s  voice, answers: “go follow me, don’t fuck my brain.”