The Kremlin leadership can be congratulated-at the press conference of the Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg, held on the eve of the meeting of foreign ministers of the Alliance, Russia confidently took the main place. Even Afghanistan, where in December the largest NATO operation in history should end, did not attract such attention of journalists as the situation in the southeast of Ukraine.

On dusty roads... "Hello, barrel!" "Hello, ruble!" This will, of course, be a historic meeting. When the ruble exchange rate coincides with the price of a barrel of oil... Well, what are the forecasts? There are actually two questions here: when and at what point? By the way, if I were the authorities, I would make a big national holiday out of this event. In the morning there is a demonstration of workers, then a ceremonial meeting, Putin’s speech, and fireworks in the evening.

France President Francois Hollande actually imposed a veto on the transfer of Russia to the first helicopter carrier Mistral. The Champs Elysees announced that the actions of Moskvrukoren do not create conditions for the transfer of a warship. In response, Russian officials are threatening to contact the international arbitration and sue 3 billion euros (for two ships, Russia was supposed to pay 1.2 billion euros), and some State Duma deputies offer to stop the import of French wines.

It seems that the main result that Ukraine came to, noting the anniversary of the Maidan, should be formulated as follows: this Maidan and everything that happened after it was inevitable. And if someone in the most bitter minutes of April, August or September would say to the Ukrainians: “Did you want it? So you! So you need! ”, They would now answer:“ Yes, we need it.