I might not touch this gone topic, which completed 2008, if not a marvelous case ... On January second, my dog ​​and I slowly walked each other in the Sokolniki park. The woman who was walking towards the alley smiled and instead of “hello” said like a password: “Frost and the sun are wonderful day!” And I laughed, because an hour before, breaking through the curtains and seeing this day, he said loudly the same words. ... Still was still an idea for Russia-to choose a name for yourself!

After Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko announced on January 11 that her country had signed a protocol on the creation of an international commission to control the transit of Russian gas to Europe, which had previously been signed by Russia and the European Union, it turned out that Ukraine had added a certain declaration to this protocol, in which it demands that Russia provide it with 21 million cubic meters of gas daily free of charge to ensure transit.

The generalized characteristic of the latest representatives of this dynasty, given to them in the 19th century, is quite well known: "They did not understand anything and did not learn anything." Let me remind you that this was said about the rulers who mastered the French throne with the help of foreign bayonets after terrible shocks, revolution, executions of the royal family, terror, bonapartism and large wars, terrible defeat and occupation of the country. What do we see in Russia now?

In the economy The results of the year. A year of lost illusions January 12, 2009 Maxim Blut The past 2008 was so saturated with economic events - extraordinary, unprecedented, tectonic (there were a lot of epithets to describe them) - which would be enough for a decade. Moreover, the situation every time has invariably developed through the worst of all possible scenarios.

On the New Year's Eve, the conscientious clerks of the Bank of Russia pleased us with a new portion of statistics. Statistics testifying that the ruling Kleptocracy, having allowed the word “crisis” (and not everywhere - see official television), in fact continues a policy that does not treat the crisis, but aggravates it. First of all, in November, the compression of the money supply continued: it decreased by another 2.2%.