What is the new reality - after the victory of the Maidan? The day after the crossing of the Rubikon is always frighteningly unimaginingly. For us, the inhabitants of the open spaces of the CIS, a step into a new life always begins in 1917. No, not from a return to the Bolshevik revolution. On the contrary, from an attempt to leave her, from the point at which the normal life of our ancestors broke off almost a century ago.

The information revolution sharply exacerbated the problem of “appropriation of the past” to the warring social forces for its own purposes. Huge layers of historical information, arrays of documents became publicly available, a variety of versions of events and the interpretation of the past appeared.

It is possible to carry out parallels as much as Germany's capture in 1938 under the umbrella of the “salvation of the Sudeten Germans.” You can tirelessly recall the territorial integrity of Georgia and Russian tanks in South Ossetia. Having lost the vocal cords, you can inform the world about the new, sonorous nicknames of the Kremlin Olympionic. Nothing will change from this. He will not reach the finish faster, and his “dogs” is not a hindrance to his tanks.

So, we already live in another country. And this is just the beginning. In order. First. Since the partition of Poland by Stalin and Hitler, the authorities responsible for the territory of the USSR and Russia for the first time violated a number of international obligations in such a flagrant manner, pitting themselves against the international community and their existing and potential allies. This is a cross for the CIS, the Eurasian Union and other undertakings of the current government.

Western leaders promised that the military operation in Crimea would be expensive for Russia. The day after the Federation Council approved the use of Russian troops in Ukraine, seven leading industrialized states published an unprecedentedly tough statement.

Well, the verdict in the first large “swamp business” was issued: Andrei Barabanov - 3 years 7 months, Yaroslav Belousov - 2 years and 6 months, Stepan Zimin - 3 years and 6 months, Sergey Krivov - 4 years, Denis Lutskevich - 3 goals and 6 months, Alexei Polikhovich - 3 years and 6 months, Artyom Savyulov - 2 years and 7 months, all in a colony of general regime, and Alexander Dukhanina (Naumova) - 3 years and 3 months of conditional term.

And you say: Sochi, Sochi, sawed up, stolen, seven years, one and a half trillion... Then by lunchtime the economy lost two trillion rubles at once! This is how things should be done. That's where the scale is. And don’t forget, by the way, to keep track of who will then buy these shares back and fill their wallets more coolly than at any Olympics. War, after all, is the best type of business. And she is definitely a “mother” to someone.