On December 27, Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan Prime Minister, leader of the opposition national party, a very likely winner of the 2008 parliamentary elections, was killed in Ravalpindi as a result of a terrorist act. Three months before her death, Benazir Bhutto spoke before a great meeting of representatives of the American political, economic, intellectual elite. With her performance, she simply fascinated the audience.

We are, of course, encouraged by Lutsenko's statement. However, until Mikhail Gangan fully undergoes the procedure and receives political refugee status, we will still fear for his fate. Because the question is, of course, political, and the threat that the leadership of Ukraine at some point, under pressure from Russia, may agree to exchange its fate remains quite real. Until Gangan receives the documents, we will actively monitor his fate and help him obtain this status.

Oppositionist Oleg Kozlovsky, who was forcibly drafted into the army, was declared unfit for military service in peacetime. This is the conclusion of doctors from the army hospital. According to information from the Ryazan Committee of Soldiers' Mothers, a conclusion from the medical commission of a military hospital in Ryazan declaring Oleg Kozlovsky, coordinator of the Defense movement, “limitedly fit” for military service, was delivered to Moscow.

The main world event of 2007 was without a doubt the global financial crisis. Most analysts date its beginning to August, although the first signs that not all was well in the American subprime mortgage market appeared at the beginning of the year. By the summer, problems in a relatively narrow segment of the American stock market—the junk mortgage bond market—spread to other sectors.

On one of the holidays, I found myself in the same company with my old friend, a famous artist. I asked him: “Please tell me, why do your fellow workers, mostly very successful and far from poor people, lick the ass of the current government with such gusto? Everything is fine with them anyway. Isn’t it a shame?” "Ashamed!?. - the friend burst out laughing, - today we feel ashamed when you drive a Renault and not an Audi Q7...