If until some moment it was possible to write about Kyiv events only in the genre of front-line report, now, it seems, the situation is changing.

After the long New Year holidays, the ruble is steadily reduced, and the process is accelerated and begins to acquire an alarming scale. At the end of last week, the euro set the absolute record: during the auction, the price of the European currency exceeded 47 rubles 36 kopecks, which is 11 kopecks above the last record set at the peak of the “smooth devaluation” of the beginning of 2009.

Comments of Russian officials shortly before the start of Sochi-2014 should consolidate the right stereotypes of the perception of games in the minds of citizens, which have already been wearing the whole world by the most multi-colored scandals. In general terms, they sound like this: the dimensions of corruption and theft at the preparation stage are greatly exaggerated, and the Olympic budget not knowing historical precedents is spent not in vain and will return to the hundredth.