Last week promised to become a little less shocking for the Russian economy than the previous few days. And the point is not even the conviction of the first sanctions volleys, the powerful destabilizing effect of which was obvious to everyone.

Former American ambassador to Russia Michael McFol asks me how to stop Putin.

There is nothing invincible in him. He scares us, threatens his nuclear arsenal and sees in our economic sanctions and the upcoming supplies of weapons to Ukraine the “announcement of the war”, but let's look closely at it. Who is confident in himself does not scream so loudly. Anyone who feels his strength does not belp the curses as obsessed. It is difficult for Putin to maintain calmness just because he absolutely has nothing to console himself.

There is a legend: in 1851, in Gatchina, a monument to Pavel was opened in Gatchina, who then ruled Emperor Nicholas. At the ceremony, the guards removed the fabric hiding the monument. But on the neck of the monument, a rope remained in an incomprehensible way. The emperor then burst into tears, and the St. Petersburg light discussed an unpleasant incident for a long time. It saw a reference to the death of Paul - a taboo topic in Russia in the mid -19th century.

For hot topics of carbon taxes, decarbonization, emissions of CO2 and methane, no less important points are sometimes ignored. In addition to a person causing the problem of influence of a person on heating the atmosphere and an increase in the volume of the oceans, there is a completely obvious problem of waste - not only man -made, but also natural ones.

We will have to be content with “crooked” schemes and rely on the fact that China will not block Unionpay in the near future. If only Western countries do not understand that Visa and MasterCard, in fact, strengthened the Putin mode The Moscow currency exchange point in early March 2022. Photo: "Komsomolskaya Pravda"/ Global Look Press Today, March 9, 2022, we woke up in another country.