Focus change The Moscow rally on September 29 disappointed many. Twenty -five thousand - this is less than expected, especially taking into account the campaign on social networks, calls of famous people, appeals on performances, and so on. However, you should not fall into sin of despondency - this is a lot. Such a number shows protest potential, the ability to collect such an action that is not so easy to disperse.

After the deprivation of World War II, the world (with the exception of individual countries) longed for stability and made considerable efforts to this. So, from 1946 to 1960, the United States experienced a real consumer boom: GDP grew by 36%, and personal consumer expenses by 42%. For many, material objects - a house, a car - have become real life milestones. By the end of the 1950s in the 87% of American families there was at least one TV, in 75%-one car, and 60% had their own housing.

The participation of Vladimir Putin in annual meetings of the Valdai International Discussion Club, as a rule, is used for important foreign policy statements.

The founder of the Japanese corporation SoftBank Masayoshi Sona is not in vain called "Warren Buffett in the world of technology." At the beginning of the zero, he invested several tens of million dollars in Alibaba. These investments not only brought him more than $ 100 billion, but also fixed the status of a visionary and insightful investor.

The World Health Organization (WHO) reported truly revolutionary changes in the lifestyle of Russian society. According to a report published the other day, for 13 years - from 2003 to 2016 - the total consumption of alcohol per capita decreased by 43%. Registered consumption, WHO experts note, decreased by 40%, and unregistered - that is, by the state, which is not controlled by 48%.

Boris Kustodiev. Fragment of the picture "The head of Peter the Great" The book “ Peter I ” (the series “State figures of Russia through the eyes of contemporaries”), published by the Pushkin Foundation in 2018 (compiler - a famous historian, writer and editor -in -chief of Zvezda magazine Yakov Gordin), largely changes the standard ideas about the “Great Sovereign” in Russia.

The government continues to discuss the project of the introduction of a four -day working week in Russia - the other day the Ministry of Labor was drawn up . True, they did not come to any final conclusion in the department: on the one hand, such a transition can lead to an increase in the cost of products and “labor costs”, on the other hand, to the personal development of the employee and increase labor efficiency.

In the summer of 2019, a large group of opposition politicians attempted to take part in the elections to the Moscow City Duma, but they were denied registration on very dubious grounds. Unregistered candidates brought Muscovites to street protests. Hundreds of protesters were detained, dozens were subjected to criminal prosecutions. The response to detention, arrests and criminal cases were an even more powerful wave of protests.

On October 2, Medusa spoke about the death of “from 10 to 35 Russian mercenaries” in Libya. This is not a big all -Russian sensation, this was not a tragedy - even more so.