I get up in the morning, and suddenly it dawns on me: after all, I have been married to Putin for almost 10 years, and what is happening between us is classic Russian family life. He doesn’t bring me a salary, but I don’t cook dinner for him and don’t wash his linen. We live like Steve Oblonsky and Dolly, we don't greet each other, we don't talk. And the house is common: 1/8 of the world. Or darkness.

The events of the year according to The New Times Ripe clusters of anger. At the end of the year in Iran, it was again in the dramatic events of the summer, when hundreds of thousands of Iranians who did not agree with the results of the presidential election on June 12, took to the streets. Then the protests lasted 5 days and were brutally suppressed. Now the authorities decided to stop them in the bud. On December 7, the police dispersed a student rally in Tehran.

Interview Eric Maskin The events of the year according to The New Times Greedy will suffer stronger. The largest American banks on New Year's Eve returned the multibillion loans issued by him by the US government to save from bankruptcy. This is an important signal that the world financial system begins to recover, the Nobel laureate in economics Eric Maskin believes. The famous American scientist answered the New Times , you say that the financial sector has become the trigger of the crisis.

The events of the year according to The New Times Reserve fund: Chronicle of exhaustion. By the beginning of 2010, the “All-Russian Zanachka” will lose up to 2 billion rubles, despite the fact that back in February 2009, the reserve fund amounted to almost 5 billion. Its funds are actively spent on covering a budget deficit formed due to the crisis. What remains in the tanning panting - the New Times found out February 1, 2008.