Alexander Petrikov specifically for "Kashin" If this Saturday in the center of Moscow is repeated at least the same as the past , that is, mass beatings and detention, it means that the authorities really deliberately overturning the relative stability that has developed in recent years, consciously destroys the established order, consciously goes to the outstark.

Even 10 years after the end of the great recession, interest rates and the profitability of bonds in the United States remain low. Analysts year after year say that bets will begin to grow in the near future. But this does not happen. The durability of cheap loans turned up the long -standing ideas about money and changed the generation of traders, investors, depositors and politicians.

In 1746, the king of Sweden forbade drinking coffee. He was afraid that an invigorating drink was discussing exclusively his overthrow. After almost three centuries, Sweden ranks 11th in the world in productivity. And, apparently, coffee (and Sweden in 3rd place in the world for his consumption) plays an important role in this. More precisely, not even coffee is important, but the ritual that has developed around its use, reports Quartz.

On Sunday, February 14, Guinea authorities reported the beginning of the new epidemic of Ebola's fever in the south of the country. This is the first outbreak of mortal illness in West Africa since 2015, when the Ebola epidemic, which also began in Guinea, covered Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Senegal and other countries. The official figures of the dead in that outbreak are more than 11,000 people (mortality about 40%).

After the Saturday protest, the Russian authorities, both in Moscow and at the federal level, took an even more stringent position in relation to the opposition than expected. The leaders of the opposition were arrested, the TFR started a criminal case of riots (three more cases - about violence against police officers), Sergei Sobyanin acts with the full support of the security forces and condemns the protesters for the same “riots”.

Modern leaders are too fastened to cliche to move the world forward Than Boris Johnson, who became the Prime Minister of Great Britain last week, is really amazing is his jewelry correspondence to the stereotype about the eccentric British from high society. Now the country will join a number of other powerful powers, which are headed by people - the embodiment of national cliches, and not the best. But forward the world is driven by leaders who refute such stereotypes, says Leonid Bershid.