Last Friday came out a movie I'd judge well-made called The Hunger Games. This movie is an adaptation of a novel with the same name, and is the first opus of a trilogy. In shorter terms, the story is set some time in the future in a buffoonish 18th century-type North America where some sort of regression took place in the countryside while the main city - the Capitol - experienced tremendous progress.

On March 4, the Russian bear is expected to vote for its sixth presidential election since 1991 (zeroth democratic since the end of the Soviet Union). The clear winner will be former President and current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who has managed to keep a firm hand on the Federation since the end of Boris Yeltsin's rule in the late 1990s. It is hard not to see that these elections will be nothing more than a staged return of Vladimir Putin to power - even though he never actually left it.  

After the detailed ranking made by Liberty Ranks of the 2012 United States presidential election candidates, LR moves across the Atlantic and approaches a very dangerous field for libertarian ideas, France. The 5th Republic over there will vote for its new President in a two-round vote, on April 22 and May 6 of this year.