The New Times publishes the chapter from the book about Kaha Bendukidze - "How to make Reforms" Kakha Bendukidze, suddenly died on November 13 in London, will go down in history as one of the most outstanding reformers of the 21st century. The last eight months of his life, the architect of Georgian economic reforms devoted to help Ukrainian society realize the scale of the problems facing him.

At the beginning of December 2013, when Maidan was just starting to flare up, Alexander Auzan and I started talking about the European integration of Ukraine. As befits an official, the dean of the Moscow State University Faculty of Economics, who was visiting Kyiv on a short friendly visit, insisted that Ukraine should join the Customs Union. They say that for Europe, plunged into crisis, Ukraine is nothing more than a sales market.

Last week Ya.M. wrote to my wife. Senkin-Tolstoy, author of the immortal story “Ferdinand, or New Radishchev”. Unfortunately, this book, published in the mid-2000s, passed by the reading public. The reason is the Russophobic tone, to the taste of the curators of our literature, and, as a result, the vanishingly small circulation. “Dear Vika!