With the departure of Yegor Gaidar, the end of the two hundred years of revolutionary democratic tradition in Russia was indicated. Announced in the XVIII century by the textbook book of Radishchev, by the end of the sixties of the 20th century it either began to run out or turn into a politicized whim in the spirit of Sakharov.

On December 16, the Russian President signed a declaration of intent. This time environmental. The head of state approved the exhausted climatic doctrine of the Russian Federation, and thereby failed a certain line in the issue of protecting the country from future natural disasters. Only this feature is not finish, but, on the contrary, starting.

When Yegor Gaidar died, I walked like a sick day. I couldn’t understand the reason: well, yes, well, a person dies at 53 years old, it’s a pity, but the person was not his native and not close. Everything oppressed me: the loud peppy laugh of colleagues, work, time, Moscow, people. Then I realized that this was not Gaidar, but something else died, something in me died. * * * ...

Death is a good reviewer, but a bad editor. The Necrologist’s genre certainly takes you to Panegirik, and you need to wait 9 days, then 40 to start talking as it is, and sometimes this does not work out after. But our large country is now all the time in constant mourning and in the obstruction necologist with easily substituted surnames-why now not to discuss anything honestly? Therefore, I am far from thought to blame Gaidar or praise.

The animated series "Simpsons" is popular not only in Russia, but also on the entire planet. His characters almost throughout the world have long become cult. And this is explained, from my point of view, by the fact that Simpsons became the first animated series, the target audience of which is not children, but adults. Accordingly, the most acute social and political problems that concern both the United States and the world were touched on in this show.

The Berlin wall and velvet revolutions, the Square of Tiananmyn and the Islamic Revolution - all these anniversaries of the world and individual countries celebrated in 2009. It is also necessary to recall that it was in 1989 that the famous article of the American sociologist Francis Fukuyama appeared “The End of History”, in which the world was predicted in which something will constantly happen, but the event series in which will never exist.