The performance of Vladimir Putin at the December informal summit of the CIS as if sets the frame of the future, at least six months in advance (conditionally, until May 2020).

The US military-free blow near the Baghdad airport (Iraq), during which Iranian General Kasem Suleimani died, caused a completely unambiguous reaction of international markets: they went up in price of oil, gold, Swiss franc and Japanese yen. Thus, the risks growing in the eyes of investors are translated into the language of current prices.

Vladimir Putin suffered his first political defeat in 2020 an hour after the New Year came in Moscow. For the first time in twenty Putin years, the New Year's appeal of the president became a sensation in Russia, and that would be even good news, but the sensational president this year is a stranger, and Vladimir Putin faded this night before him, as before the new Queen of a Porphyneous Widow.

Artificial intelligence surrounds us everywhere. He is responsible for personalized advertising, writes articles and books, he is even trusted to finish the tenth symphony of Beethoven. So far, a person is being touched by the mistakes of bots and voice assistants, but soon, it seems, he will have to deal with creatures that can erase the boundaries between the human and artificial mind.