Why don't you perm your hair?

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At the 2006 census, its population was 12,389, in 2,671 families.

I gave you money the other day so that you could get a perm.

However, on April 28, Medvedev accepted the resignations of the Governors of Permskiy Krai and Yaroslavkaya Oblast.

Perm? No way, I just do it once a year, during the big holidays, that's quite enough.

The Coalition is using social networks to organize a protest march on May Day as part of a campaign to make sure elections do take place.

Indeed, the resigned governors share one trait Putin's party, United Russia, won less than 40 of the vote in these regions last December . In some ways this scenario is worse. If the resignations are in fact punishments for electoral loss or refusal to falsify elections, the Kremlin is definitely consolidating power, and not devolving it.

Following the evacuation of the Rybinsk Aviation Institute in 1940, he went to work in Perm, where in 1953 he was made the head of his own design bureau OKB 19 (now part of Aviadvigatel).

One bitterly cold March day, I joined a few friends on a trip to the former camp. Built in the early 1940s as a regular labor camp, Perm 36 was converted into a concentration camp for political prisoners in 1972.