The authorities are looking for scapegoats for failure of the Russian team at the Olympics, but what is going on in sports is only an example of what is going on in other spheres of life - neoliberalism yields the same results no matter where it is applied.
The
current wave of strikes across Europe are only a prelude to what will
come, as the ruling elite are not prepared to change their anti-crisis
policies that have merely supported the corporations that caused the
crisis.
On January 19, 2010 one year will pass since the murder of a human rights lawyer and an anarchist activist. This is the day of antifascist mobilization that will be observed every year.
Russians regard everything happening to them as a natural calamity, from train explosion up to neonazi attacks, hoping that all problems will be solved by themselves.
The Russian President’s Annual Address to the Federal Assembly is extremely far from politics. The key idea, if any, is that the technological progress will solve all our problems.