Marie se rejouit...

Après des mois de déni, le Kremlin a enfin concédé que la crise existait,

I would like to talk about the global financial crisis that is affecting the entire world. Most countries are faced with the fact that the gross errors committed by several states (especially America) have created serious problems. The U.S. financial market and its impact on the world economy are both very large. Therefore, the crisis that occurred in the U.S. has had a knock-on economic effect on virtually every country.

If this had happened five or seven years ago, perhaps the crisis would have had less of an effect on Russia. Today the situation is different: we are a country with an open economy. On the one hand, this is a great advantage for us; on the other, it compels us to react and deal with the problems faced by other leading nations. Now everyone is working on a single issue: how to extricate the world from the financial crisis and limit the damage it is causing.

Another difficult challenge facing the entire world today is an international financial crisis, a crisis that began in one of the world's major countries, in the United States of America and which, unfortunately, has spread throughout the world and affected almost all countries.

...Of course I will devote part of my speech to the country's current social and economic problems
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Maria Sergeyeva stretched out a slim leg to show off her boots and pulled on her gray ribbed sweater.

“I’m dressed completely in Russian clothes,” she said, giggling. “That is, except for the belt. I have to admit that’s Chinese.”

With Hollywood looks and belligerent rhetoric befitting a Komsomol rally, Sergeyeva, 24, has become the new face of the country’s patriotic youth and a polarizing figure in the Russian-language blogosphere, the country’s most vibrant forum for political debate.

What sent her star rising was a nationalistic, muddled, yet memorable speech at a rally near Red Square last month in support of the government’s measures to combat the financial crisis.

In the Jan. 31 speech, which has prompted both admiration and mockery among bloggers,

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