The fate of Russian pensions has developed paradoxically. On the one hand, in this area it was somehow not up to reforms, since the situation throughout the ten years of the existence of Russia remained extraordinary, on the other hand, the understanding arose quite quickly that the system, which forms spontaneously on the basis of the Soviet inheritance, can provide a guaranteed collapse in 20 years. The demography helped, so to speak, more precisely - the inevitable aging of the population.

Professor Andrei Akopyan, Director of the Center for Human Reproduction, answers the questions of Graney.Ru NB: Articles regularly appear in the press about how one of our compatriots is going to sell this or that organ. As a rule, we are talking about the kidneys. It seems that in Russia there is a whole system of such trade. Is it really so? AA: Neither during the years of Soviet power, nor after it, there was not a single court on this basis in our country.

Photo AP Boris Yeltsin, whose 70th anniversary we celebrate today, has already gone down in history as the first president ... not to say that democratic, but at least not totalitarian Russia. The paradox of his reign was that by no means the best secretary of the regional committee became a banner of democratic changes and, surprisingly, really changed Russia.

It happened at the beginning of August last year. Another kidney transplant operation was performed at the Sverdlovsk Regional Clinical Hospital # 1. The patient was completely dependent on the artificial kidney machine for a long time. Moreover, things were so bad that when a donor organ finally appeared, the doctors did not wait for a written document confirming the test results, but were satisfied with a telephone conversation and immediately began the operation.

Photo AP In a strange way, the 70th anniversary of Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin almost coincided with the 10th anniversary of the reform. The blessing to the radical transformation of the economy reform given in the speech on October 28, 1991 turned out to be the main thing, not that deed, but a one -time political act of the regional committee, Tsekovtsy, and the city committee expelled from the party pack. Why one -time?

The headache for the monetary authorities is not the IMF mission, which will start work on January 31, and not the meeting of the G7 and Russian finance ministers on February 16 in Palermo. And not even the start of full-scale negotiations with the Paris Club.

The first mention of the importation of human organs into Western Europe dates back to 1987, when Guatemalan law enforcement discovered 30 children destined for use in this business. Then there were messages from Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Ecuador, Honduras, Paraguay. The first to be arrested for such trade was an Egyptian in 1996: the poor sold him kidneys for 12 thousand dollars apiece. The same happens in Asia, especially India.