Less than two weeks had passed before Putin’s words became reality: the headquarters of the Ukrainian Navy in Sevastopol was taken by a protesting crowd. The Ukrainian military did not shoot because there were women in the crowd. It turned out that what Putin said is the military strategy that Russia will adhere to in the war with Ukraine.

On March 20-21, the European Union, who passed in Brussels on March 20-21, instructed the European Commission to prepare a legal assessment of actions to include Crimea in Russia, and also gave the European Commission and the EU countries to prepare and think through the list of possible measures, including trade and economic ones, to prevent further escalation of the crisis in Ukraine.

On Sunday, simultaneously with a referendum in the Crimea, parliamentary elections in Serbia were held. They are notable for the fact that the development matrix of the Balkan Republic may well serve as a kind of example both for the European integration of Ukraine without Crimea, and for postimpersky Russia as the core of a large multinational empire, which has broken up due to centrifugal tendencies. "Posperpersky" Serbia. Landscape change.

The current discussion around the new person of the Putin regime contains two completely insignificant topics: Putin’s motives and sanctions. And outside the discussion, plots remain much more significant. Let's start with motives. We tend to try to figure it out and mate the more, the more mysterious they are. Here is a scene from life: a car drives up to the entrance of Khrushchev, from which the newlyweds crawl out.