While the creative intelligentsia stands under a Christmas tree with champagne in his hand and wet, from the bad forebodings of its future, pants, it is time to talk easily and in a new way about how the same intelligentsia dug this hole for itself. The testing for lice was easily and unpretentious: from the Kremlin a proposal was made to consider Kasparov not a politician, but a chess player.

The main event of 2007 in the Russian economy was perhaps a sharp increase in inflation. At the beginning of the year, the authorities managed to hold the rise in prices in the declared framework, but in the second half of the year - starting in August - inflation began to accelerate. It will be appropriate to recall that the 2007 budget has grown compared to the previous year by a quarter. Salary and income of the population grew much faster than GDP and labor productivity.

Dear ______________________! This (memorable, joyful, fucking - underline as appropriate) year has ended. He brought with him a lot (love, money, crap, creative success - underline what is necessary), so let all this remain with us in the New Year! Do you remember how you and I wanted to (fill in what we needed) all year , but we couldn’t? Maybe this will happen next year? I would like to believe.