Generation Pu Izhevsk businessman Evgeny Kudryavtsev is indignant when he once again hears complaints that, “social elevators don’t work today,” “in the 90s you could make a career, not like now,” but “now you can’t jump over your head.” “Well, the elevators don’t work, so what - take the stairs! - he calls. “It’s slower and more difficult, but you definitely won’t get stuck anywhere.” Kudryavtsev knows what he’s talking about, he himself conquered step by step.

In the "approximate list of foreign musical groups and performers whose repertoire contains ideologically harmful works" distributed in 1985 by Komsomol committees, the KISS group was listed under No. 6. Which, however, did not in the least interfere with the popularity of the "kisses" - their music was rewritten from cassette to cassette, and self-made posters with a Star, a Cat, a Dragon and an Alien adorned more than one wall in Khrushchev and expensive "cooperatives".

Izhevsk businessman Evgeny Kudryavtsev is indignant when he once again hears complaints that, “social elevators don’t work today,” “in the 90s you could make a career, not like now,” but “now you can’t jump over your head” . “Well, the elevators don’t work, so what - take the stairs! - he calls. “It’s slower and more difficult, but you definitely won’t get stuck anywhere.” Kudryavtsev knows what he’s talking about, he himself conquered step by step.

When pirates hijacked a French yacht with 30 crew members in Somalia in early April, it took the government one hour to organize a response operation. While the ransom was being negotiated, the French commandos landed directly into the Indian Ocean and joined the International Special Naval Forces already there. The military entered the case a week later, when the ransom had already been paid, and the hostages were released unharmed.

This was not the case under President Putin. Last Monday, speaking as a witness at the trial, the first deputy chairman of the Supreme Arbitration Court (SAC), Elena Valyavina, suddenly confirmed that the Kremlin was pressuring the court. One of the Kremlin employees from the team of former presidential aide Viktor Ivanov, who oversaw personnel policy in the Kremlin, including the appointment of judges, asked her to cancel the decision she had already made, Valyavina said.