We are all lucky that Alexey Volin is responsible for state media policy in the government. This, in case anyone has forgotten, is the same deputy. Minister of Communications and Mass Communications, who taught life and teaching to the professors of the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University, explaining to them that the journalist works for his uncle and what his uncle says must be written and said, since his uncle pays.

During his visit to Turkey, Putin announced the final refusal to implement the most ambitious and expensive Gazprom project of the last decade - the South Stream. In addition to the 4.66 billion dollars already invested by Gazprom, the preparation of infrastructure in the Russian territory cost the gas monopoly in trillion rubles. However, the project cost was continuously grew.

In the middle of the 20th century, the psychologist Elizabeth Kybler Ross formulated five stages of a person’s reaction to a tragic situation: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. And judging by the past meeting of foreign ministers, NATO countries regarding the collapse of partnership with Russia, the alliance members reached the end of this path.