Some time ago, Colta.ru came up with the Elite-2016 project. We decided from the first lips to find out how different elites feel today, from financial to managerial, from the capital to the regional, whether they have a mission, what they think about the country, which they, by virtue of their social role, can look from a bird's eye view. We felt a shortage of such evidence. And they waited for what would be difficult, but did not know that so.