A few days ago, on June 17, at the opening of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, President Dmitry Medvedev put forward the idea of ​​transforming Moscow into a special Federal District: “ To improve the development of the Moscow metropolis, for the purposes of the financial center and simply facilitate the life of a huge number of people, the issue of expanding the borders of Moscow can also be considered.

With the departure of Elena Georgievna Bonner, the era of the late Soviet titanism ends, which gave the country and the world a truly titanic personality, not clothed with any official powers, but with which both Western presidents and gerontocrats from the Politburo were considered. That is, this era has not yet gone, it has not left, but perhaps soon, after Bonner, it will leave completely.