This is a tradition for “authorities”: once a year , on December 31, my friends and I gather and re -read the news of the outgoing year, for which there are usually no place in serious texts. Small news, crazy and funny, in which, however, large people also sometimes appear. Well, traditions must be honored. Let's go.

Messages about the concentration of Russian troops on the border with Ukraine and the warlike statements of Moscow with ultimatical requirements of security guarantees have become a familiar part of the information flow and do not surprise anyone. The cherry on the cake and a new word in diplomacy became published draft security guarantees between Russia and the USA and NATO.

They say that Nikita Mikhalkov makes a movie based on the works of American John Reed, there will be two series - one about the Mexican revolution, the second about Petrograd 1917; Yura Borisov will play Lenin, who, according to rumors, is already repented in the fact that he starred in a low -grade anti -Soviet campaign about Captain Volkonovov .

Businessinsider decided to find out how the death of multimilliarder will affect their companies and how justified the hopes of their children to become billionaires are justified. According to the results of the study, the richest people of the planet may not seem the best parents. The total condition of the 10 richest Americans significantly exceeds the trillion dollars ( $ 1.386 trillion as of December 24).

For a month I wrote and washed the ode "on the thirty years of the collapse of the USSR." I really wanted to write it. I have a complex: from the very first days of my work, since 1990, I got used to the postulate that about such, about a saint-about administrative-territorial-political division and its babies, that is, only mature and narrowly specializing in the topic experts have the right to write the right to write.

The MIF Publishing House issues a collection of David Rubenstein’s interview “To be a leader: the rules of outstanding CEOs, politicians and public figures of the 21st century”. The author of the book - the co -founder of one of the largest and most successful private investment companies in the world of Carlyle Group and the famous philanthropist - was able to talk with many celebrities: from Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffet to Ruth Ginzburg and Opraus Winfrey.

The famous Canadian psychotherapist and connoisseur of ancient philosophy Donald Robertson explains how the rules of the ancient Stoiks help get rid of in vain anxiety, not scroll at the mind of alleged troubles - and face the inevitable face Power of philosophy: Emperor Mark Aurelius Photo: © Raimund Kutter / Imagebroker.com / Global Look Press The ideas and practices of Stoicism today are experiencing the Renaissance of popularity.