While other countries are allocating unprecedented amounts for direct support for business and workers who are in a difficult situation due to the pandemic of coronavirus and introduced quarantines, Russia is going on its own way. Here, the business is offered benefits and delay, while demanding from it to save jobs during a “non -working month”. Why is this normal for the current (always?) Russian leadership, explains Nikolai Kulbak .

We are used to the fact that international trade is the destiny of transnational corporations. But history knew examples when ordinary people took this global function. People with large checkered bags are bags, or shuttles. This movement originated in Europe after the First World War. Erich Maria Remarque immortalized the bags in his novel “Return”. In Russia, shuttleness appeared in the late 1980s.

Once, European politicians, from among supporters of the closer coordination of foreign policy within the EU, loved to attribute to Henry Kissinger an apocryphal statement, which the former himself could not mention the former to state the United States.

Lustration as the key to a successful transfer to democracy is a popular plot in Russia. In the imaginary alternative universe, the state apparatus of the country is cleaned of the elements of the late Soviet nomenclature and the power corps, the institutions flourish, and honest judges make fair decisions. In reality, everything is usually more complicated.

Many corporations both in the West and Russia change their work standards and transfer people to home, remote work in order to significantly reduce the risks of workers' losses. There was already a joke that Microsoft was time to release the Office program in the Home Office version. Demand for all remote access funds has increased sharply - it means that they will actively develop. In China, and in other countries, even virtual parties are being held today.

The world sits home and is watching a real man -made crisis. It was created by governments that are guided by political rather than economic considerations. The media and scientists sow panic, but the markets behave as if they know something. Here are 10 theses that will help add a spoonful of rational optimism to the diet. 1. People (both inhabitants and the media) do not understand statistical data well. The situation around the Covid-19 is not as bad as it seems .

The world is already in full swing about how the world will be after the coronavirus comes to naught. Thomas Picketti writes that any disaster of this scale can lead to a redistribution of wealth and increase social equality - however, other scientists argue that with the same success it can cause a long economic decline and revenge.

Today there are many predictions about what awaits us after the end of the pandemic . Most experts agree that the world will not remain the same. It all depends on the reaction of the authorities and citizens to coronavirus and economic consequences. There is hope that humanity will be able to take the opportunity to rebuild some schemes, to make them better and more humane.

Russia saved the world from the Pechenegs and Polovtsy, but some still do not want to love it Memory wars on Pandemia days: April 3, 2020, the Prague City Hall dismantled the monument to the Soviet Marshal Konev. The Russian embassy expressed “deep indignation”.

At the very beginning of March, I had a heart attack, and my friends on Facebook helped me get a consultation with Professor Abram Lvovich Syrkin, a well -known cardiologist, creator and head of the Cardiology clinic based on the First MGMU named after Sechenov. Abram Lvovich considered it necessary to put me to examine in his clinic.