Well done, Putichka. As the classic put it, "there is a certain whim to this." Dear user, Today, at the end of the working day, while breathing in, like all Muscovites, the smoke from the burning forests outside Moscow, I read with great interest and pleasure your assessment of the situation with the forest fires in central Russia. In fairness, it should be noted that Russia has not seen temperatures this high in 140 years—not even under the Communists. And that at least partly excuses the authorities, who of course bear responsibility for dealing with natural disasters, but who are facing a calamity of this scale and magnitude for the first time. However, on the whole I agree with your remarks. You are, of course, an astonishingly frank and straightforward person. Simply splendid. And you are undoubtedly a gifted writer. If you made your living by the pen, you could live on Capri, like V.I. Lenin's favorite writer, A.M. Gorky (Maxim Gorky). However, even there you could not feel safe. Because Europe and the United States face natural disasters of the same scale. One need only recall the forest fires in many European countries last year and the year before. Despite all the problems and difficulties, I hope that you and I will somehow make it to retirement after all. All the necessary funds to deal with the consequences of the natural disaster and address other urgent problems have already been transferred from the federal budget to the accounts of the affected constituent entities of the Russian Federation. If we have your address, you will receive the bell from the governor without delay. *Yours sincerely, V. Putin. *//////// Text of the letter to which he replied. I have just one question: With what money will the bell be bought that the governor of Tver Region will hand over "without delay" to some unknown blogger? A bell here, a bell there. So this is how we treat the spending of budget funds..