“God forbid you to live in an era of changes” - the great Confucius warned the world in hoary antiquity. We were very “lucky” in this regard - the world has now entered the stage of crushing changes. The old is crumbling, the new is born in pain and blood. And from above, the Almighty constructs a battle between good and evil, the future with the past.

Whom God wants to destroy, he, first of all, deprives him of reason. Let's look at the events of the past week through the prism of this divine providence, then a lot will become clear.

A DREAM OF MIND BIRTHS PUTIN'S "SKELETONS IN CABINETS"

The closer to the finish line the war unleashed by Putin against Ukraine, the more clearly Psalm 7 is justified: “... I dug a hole, dug it, and myself fell into the trap that I did; his iniquity will turn on his head, and his theft will descend on the crown of his head.

I'll start from afar, so that it is clear that "demons" and "skeletons in closets" by themselves do not start. The sleep of the mind of the people gives birth to these monsters, worthy of the brush of Goya.

Do you know how Yuri Gagarin died? Last week, his friend, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, was finally allowed to reveal the true details of the hero's death.

“For 45 years, the versions sounded very different - from realistic: a collision with a meteorological balloon or depressurization of the cockpit - to fantastic: the plane was attacked by a UFO. There was also talk that the crew was drunk. Some believed that Yuri Gagarin died during the launch of a secret rocket that the USSR was about to send to the moon. But the commission has collected enough evidence to assert that the first cosmonaut was killed by an air hooligan who violated the rules of piloting. At this time, an unauthorized plane appeared at an altitude of 4200 meters, which passed at supersonic speed at a distance of 10-15 meters. He did not see Gagarin. But the plane drove into a deep spiral, and after 55 seconds the plane was in the ground ", - Alexey Leonov tells.

And this is not an accident, but a system of behavior that is gaining strength in Russian society. Remember the Russian special forces lost in Ukraine, drunk with Russian fans, beating the British at Euro 2016, tanks refusing at the parade, and rockets with planes falling from the sky ...

“TECHNOLOGIES - PASSING TOMORROW. CHANGE OR DIE "
Lauren Graham, leading specialist in the history of Soviet and Russian science, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Universities, spoke at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum in the framework of the session “Technologies - a pass to tomorrow. Change or die. " In his speech, the professor states the fact that no matter how strong Russia is in terms of inventive potential, in an authoritarian society this potential will not be economically realized.

Switzerland exports 3-4 times more high-tech products every year than Russia, which suggests that the latter is among the countries that have failed to benefit from the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The strange thing is that Russians are amazingly good at inventing and very bad at innovating.

But the most interesting thing in this situation is how an enterprising Ukrainian explained the collapse of Russia with the future ideas of the professor back in ... 2003.

“GIVE CRIMEA, LUGANSK, DONETSK TO RUSSIA, AND THE COUNTRY WILL END!” - AN INCREDIBLE PREDICTION OF 2003

“In the series“ Tomorrow will be tomorrow, ”a certain man suggests that Russia can be easily destroyed if“ you give it Luhansk, Sevastopol and Donetsk ”, since“ the problems of sewage and the communists ”will destroy The Russian Federation forever and ever". Written by News24.

According to the plot, the heroes of the series, which aired on Ukrainian television more than 10 years ago, visit a certain person who is building a plan to destroy Russia.

He believes that in order for the Russian Federation to collapse, it needs to give 2 million communists from Lugansk and Donetsk, and Sevastopol, with its “terrible sewage system”. According to the author who posted the video, this man is in a mental hospital and he has gone mad.

Then to the Russian-Ukrainian authors of the series, his projects seemed like a game. But the sick man turned out to be more advanced than his visitors. Which undoubtedly testifies to a similar diagnosis of the current Russian society, from which the whole Christian world is ready to turn its back ...

"RUSSIAN WORLD" CRACKING AT THE SEAMS "

The Ukrainian parliament by a majority vote - 245 "FOR" supported the appeal to the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew with a request to grant autocephaly to the Orthodox Church in Ukraine. This is very important historical event from the time of 1686, when by decree the Kiev Church was annexed to the Moscow Patriarchate. If this decision is made, Ukraine will be able to overcome the church schism in the country.

The well-known Russian journalist Alexander Nevzorov said that the refusal of the Moscow Patriarchate to participate in the Pan-Orthodox Council indicates that the head of the Russian Orthodox Church(ROC) Patriarch Kirill (Gundyaev) thus "portrays little Putin."

“But if Russia somehow somehow, due to its vastness and need for the world, still gets out and still remains a state, in whose existence many are interested, then for the ROC this is a monstrous tragedy. Now the ROC are schismatics, they are schismatics, they are people ... well, you know how a small floor lamp solemnly announces the termination of its cooperation with the power plant ",- said the journalist.

The Kremlin insider reported that the appeal of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to the Ecumenical Patriarch to recognize the Ukrainian Orthodox Autocephaly caused shock and brutal harassment in the bowels of the Moscow Patriarchate. The “Russian world” is bursting at the seams ”.

Judging by the behavior of the Kremlin hirelings in The Verkhovna Rada the insider was not wrong.

On behalf of the faction of the "Opposition Bloc" party, a letter was sent to the Speaker of Parliament demanding the abolition of the resolution on appeal "Due to numerous violations of the regulations." Among the signatories and the Dnipropetrovsk Kremlin: A. Vilkul, J. Bezbakh, D. Shpenov, K. Pavlov.

One way or another, but judging by the information that leaked to the media, the Pan-Orthodox Council, which began on June 19 in Crete, will make a positive decision for the Ukrainian Church. And it will be a real geopolitical disaster for Putin and Russia.

“Perhaps this is the most meaningful decision in the Orthodox world over the past 1000 years. And really, who is the ROC? A schismatic sect serving not God, but the KGB-FSB, blessing aggressive wars. Having excluded the ROC from Orthodoxy, believers will only gain, and churches will get rid of the organization of a satanic sense, ”- writes onpress.info.

But let's return to Ukraine, where our headache is enough ...

THE BIGGEST PROBLEM OF UKRAINE NOW IS NOT EVEN CORRUPTION, BUT PROFESSIONAL DEGRADATION

“The recent history of Ukraine is a string of opportunities that have arisen and were lost,- convinced Chief Editor Mirrors of the Week Yulia Mostovaya. - An analysis of the reasons for the emergence and loss of chances would reveal not only the responsibility of the politician, but also of society. But why analysis? We just love with our ears, and then we pay with a ridge.

The problem of the Ukrainian oligarchy is that, figuratively speaking, if you shave off your head at once, then the whole body will fall apart. I don’t know how to deal with this, but I don’t see any serious discussion on finding an answer.

Putin's insidiousness is that he struck at the moment of a change of elites, when the former are no longer adequate to the changes in the country, and the future ones are not yet adequate.

... The biggest problem of Ukraine now is not even corruption, but professional degradation... Everywhere. From special services and medicine to education, government and journalism. If we want to live, not survive, it is important to start with the quality of the human material. And this is a reform of all levels of education, when a person does right choice specialty, with pleasure studying and working with pleasure. Unfortunately, the IMF does not fit this into the memorandum. "

Hence, first of all, and the incidents occurring in the country ...

"OPPOBLOCK" THE BAL RULES HERE

The city of Novomoskovsk is actually located in the front-line zone and what is happening in the city itself cannot but worry both the residents of the city and the Kiev authorities, which, knowing about the problem in Novomoskovsk, are trying to stay on the sidelines.

So, Novomoskovsk voters, with their majority, cast their votes in the last elections in 2015 for the post of head of the city of Novomoskovsk, Viktor Ivanovich Litvishchenko. Whose candidacy in power did not suit everyone.

In turn, having become a People's Deputy of Ukraine from the "Petro Poroshenko Bloc", Vadim Grigorievich Nesterenko was the curator of the "BPP" and the "Opposition Bloc". At the next elections to local councils in 2015, he formed the Novomoskovsk Territorial Election Commission, he, in fact, led election campaign in the city of Novomoskovsk.

After the indisputable victory in the elections, under the strict guidance of the same curator Nesterenko, the Novomoskovsk Territorial Election Commission at the initial session of the City Council hands over mandates purchased for food packages from BPP and Oppoblok, and Litvishchenko, who won the elections, is not announced for some unknown reason. which the MEMBERS of the territorial election committee themselves came up with.

And from that time on, the chaos, which many media outlets of our country have written about more than once, has been going on.

The city of Novomoskovsk has created a precedent in Ukraine that will undoubtedly go down in history. Having left the Dnipropetrovsk region at the mercy of Oleksandr Vilkul, the president will more than once face the fact that violations of electoral legislation will become the norm in Ukraine, that unwanted election winners will not be allowed to work. And the people will create people's republics not provided for by any legislation.

But in the regional state administration in the Dnipropetrovsk region, as in a famous song ...

“EVERYTHING IS GOOD, BEAUTIFUL MARQUISE!

Business goes on and life is easy. Not a single sad surprise Except for a trifle ... "

The house has not yet burned down, but the governor's rating with the region, respectively, is actively burning out. Thus, the Dnipropetrovsk region was in ninth place in terms of attracted foreign investment (FDI) per capita. This conclusion can be drawn from the rating of the governors of the peaceful regions of Ukraine, which was made by the "Business Capital".

In the first quarter, $ 9.8 million came to us and $ 2.4 million was withdrawn (excluding exchange rate differences). For a large industrial region, this result can be considered unsatisfactory.

It should be noted that the Governor Valentin Reznichenko in December at an expanded meeting of the Cabinet spoke about "almost half a billion dollars" of foreign investments registered in the region in 2015. And in February the regional statistics published official information, according to which the region received $ 109.9 million last year. FDI, and at the same time, $ 29.9 million was withdrawn (excluding exchange rate differences).

Also, Dnipropetrovsk region was in last place in terms of the dynamics of real wages: for the quarter compared to the same period last year, it decreased by 13.3%, for four months - by 10%.

Another, already traditionally, the last place was taken by the region in terms of the largest debts of the population for housing and communal services: UAH 685. per capita as of May 1. In absolute terms, the amount of debt in January-April decreased slightly, from UAH 2.36 billion to UAH 2.22 billion.

“In the current situation, the governors can no longer, as before, be equal to the worst. On the contrary, right now is the time to ask them for the lagging behind the regions where the indicators of socio-economic development are higher. Previously, low places in the rating signaled, first of all, that these areas need increased attention of the government, but now - about the need to look for more adequate leaders, "- sums up the publication.

So I have to state with sorrow: the motto "Change or Die" is relevant not only for the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, but also for Ukraine as a whole, and our not the first, but for a long time already not the second region in the country.

Vadim KLIMENTEV.

Especially for Vesti Pridneprovya.

Why hide a shower in a closet and how to deal with bathroom disgust? Who can keep you out own apartment and with whom did the aristocrats and the poor share the bed? We answer these questions in the new issue of the "Elective in history".

“God forbid to live in an era of change,” says an old Chinese proverb, meanwhile this era never ends, and perhaps there can be no other. Of course, when you read the classics, it seems as if they all have the same - the same problems, experiences, dreams and worries. However, is it so? Not really. Even over the past 100-150 years, many aspects Everyday life changed beyond recognition, and what today shocks us, left our ancestors indifferent, while the usual for modern man things in the old days caused a lot of embarrassment, hostility and inconvenience.

Lodging

Today it is normal for us to have our own apartment or even a house, or to rent a house. The object of rent is usually either a whole apartment or a room. Looking at luxurious apartments from old paintings and engravings, we forget how a huge percentage of city dwellers huddled in corners, attics and basements. Not even the rooms were rented - the corners. In one room, separated by a screen or curtain, single individuals and whole families could cohabit. Moreover, it was a practice to rent the same bed to several people at once: while you are at work, several renters manage to sleep in your bed.

Personal hygiene

You don't know anything about shame unless you've had to hide the bathroom in a closet and hide the shower behind a trick door. Meanwhile, according to nineteenth-century etiquette, such items were considered indecent. In the palace of Alexander II, the bathroom was hidden in a special recess in the floor, on top of which there was a sofa, and the shower was literally in the closet. Before filling the bathtub with water, it was necessary to put a clean sheet in it - they tried to avoid direct contact of the body with the body of the bathtub. Chandelier showers were also popular - on one side candles were inserted into them, on the other, water flowed out of the holes.

Way of life

Staying late at work, you probably warn your family about this. But imagine what a late return promises you on the street at night. And not because a jealous spouse will not let you on the threshold, but because your own janitor will simply not open you. Returning after midnight and not being allowed into your own apartment is a common thing for residents of apartment buildings. For reasons of order and safety, the wipers were certainly locked every evening. entrance doors, and from latecomers they took "tea".

Pets"

"There would be a hut, there will be cockroaches", "A cockroach is not a fly, it will not stir up a belly" - there are many proverbs in Russian culture about cockroaches, and it is no coincidence - together with fleas, bugs, ants and other pests, they constituted an integral part of the inhabitants of residential houses. “What kind of sleeping without a bug?”, One of Goncharov’s characters reasoned in “Oblomov”. It’s not that they weren’t trying to get them out, but they weren’t considered a special disaster either. The dwellings of both ordinary townspeople and those most beautiful aristocrats from the ceremonial portraits were teeming with various pests and insects. Instead of fighting them, people of even the highest society often preferred to carry elegant bite comb and exquisite flea trap boxes with them.

Gau Eduard Petrovich. Bathroom of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. 1877

It is difficult to imagine that from the ordinary and familiar today, it will become savagery for our descendants. What will they laugh at a hundred years from now, and what will the next generations be afraid of? After all, it seems to us that we are absolutely normal even now.

“God forbid to live in an era of change,” says an old Chinese proverb, meanwhile this era never ends, and perhaps there can be no other. Of course, when you read the classics, it seems as if they all have the same - the same problems, experiences, dreams and worries. However, is it so? Not really. Even over the past 100-150 years, many aspects of everyday life have changed beyond recognition, and what shocks us today left our ancestors indifferent, while things common to modern people in the old days caused a lot of embarrassment, hostility and inconvenience.

Lodging

Today it is normal for us to have our own apartment or even a house, or to rent a house. The object of rent is usually either a whole apartment or a room. Looking at luxurious apartments from old paintings and engravings, we forget how a huge percentage of city dwellers huddled in corners, attics and basements.

Previously, not only rooms were rented in apartments, but also corners and beds.

Not even the rooms were rented - the corners. In one room, separated by a screen or curtain, single individuals and whole families could cohabit. Moreover, it was a practice to rent the same bed to several people at once: while you are at work, several renters manage to sleep in your bed.

Personal hygiene

You don't know anything about shame unless you've had to hide the bathroom in a closet and hide the shower behind a trick door. Meanwhile, according to nineteenth-century etiquette, such items were considered indecent. In the palace of Alexander II, the bathroom was hidden in a special recess in the floor, on top of which there was a sofa, and the shower was literally in the closet. Before filling the bathtub with water, it was necessary to put a clean sheet in it - they tried to avoid direct contact of the body with the body of the bathtub. Chandelier showers were also popular - on one side candles were inserted into them, on the other, water flowed out of the holes.

Gau Eduard Petrovich. Bathroom of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. 1877

Way of life

Staying late at work, you probably warn your family about this. But imagine what a late return promises you on the street at night. And not because a jealous spouse will not let you on the threshold, but because your own janitor will simply not open you. Returning after midnight and not being allowed into your own apartment is a common thing for residents of apartment buildings. For reasons of order and safety, the janitors would always lock the front doors every evening, and tipped off latecomers.

Pets"

"There would be a hut, there will be cockroaches", "A cockroach is not a fly, it will not stir up a belly" - there are many proverbs in Russian culture about cockroaches, and it is no coincidence - together with fleas, bugs, ants and other pests, they constituted an integral part of the inhabitants of residential houses. “What kind of sleeping without a bug?”, One of Goncharov’s characters reasoned in “Oblomov”. It’s not that they weren’t trying to get them out, but they weren’t considered a special disaster either. The dwellings of both ordinary townspeople and those most beautiful aristocrats from the ceremonial portraits were teeming with various pests and insects. Instead of fighting them, people of even the highest society often preferred to carry elegant bite comb and exquisite flea trap boxes with them.

It is difficult to imagine that from the ordinary and familiar today, it will become savagery for our descendants. What will they laugh at a hundred years from now, and what will the next generations be afraid of? After all, it seems to us that we are absolutely normal even now.

Sword of Damocles. According to Greek legend, the Syracuse tyrant Dionysius (late 5th century BC) proposed replacing him for one day on the throne to his favorite Damocles, who considered Dionysius the happiest of mortals. In the midst of the fun at the feast, Damocles suddenly saw a naked sword hanging from a horse's hair above his head, and realized the illusion of well-being.

Crisis is some very alarming word and condition hanging over our heads like the sword of Damocles. Everywhere there was just talk: someone was fired, someone was sent on vacation for an indefinite time, someone had an unpaid loan, someone is sick, and the medicine is getting more expensive, and then ... What will happen next?

There are troubles, such as wars, when you can survive only by uniting all the people. There are troubles when everyone survives on their own, and even relying on the help of a friend, or by uniting in some small cells.

We will learn to survive. Where to begin? First, don't panic! Any panic is an additional expenditure of energy, nerves, money, it is chaos. Try to clearly distinguish between your personal problems, your social group and the state. Unfortunately (or fortunately), the state is not always us, it has its own difficulties. If you are a civil servant or a hired worker, or you have your own business, these are also somewhat different planes. In the first case, if you were fired after all, there is no need to make a tragedy out of it. Calm down, wait it out and just start looking for another job, perhaps changing your occupation altogether. Try to find a use for yourself in some other area. Maybe it turns out that everything is for the better and before you worked in a completely different place, and the changes will open up new abilities and other perspectives in you.

Believe me, there is always work, the only question is what to do. Don't be afraid of change! Remember that in the 90s, many engineers and teachers changed jobs for something absolutely uncharacteristic of their education: they went into business, repairs, trade. Among my acquaintances in those years, a former officer took up Internet technologies, and the best teacher of the year in one of the republics took up construction. Someone remained in this area, grew up and feels great, someone returned to the profession and recalls those years as a kind of adventure, not the worst in life. Which, meanwhile, made it possible to simply survive in that very difficult time, to help both yourself and your family. The current owners of their own business can all the more proudly say: I survived more difficult situation, I withstood, nothing broke me and will not break me now.

Important in stressful situations not to close on oneself, on one's own sufferings, not to accumulate and not cherish a grudge against the injustice of our world order. Everything passes - the crisis also passes. A jump down isn't always a bad thing. What we spent a lot of energy on suddenly disappears and we release a lot of time, energy for something else. In life, nothing happens just like that. Maybe someone deliberately stopped your endless run in a circle to nowhere and you need to look back and think? In fact, for happiness, a person needs close people, a loved one, understanding. And in monetary terms, our relative well-being fits into the amounts that we can always earn. Of course, if you do not sit idly by.

What's going on, a crisis? But you are not threatened by anything as an individual. Have incomes dropped? A reason to calmly analyze your expenses. Believe me, you will definitely find that in some ways they require adjustment for a long time and they can be limited absolutely painlessly. Remember that you can spend your free time not only in the hustle and bustle of shops, shopping at times of absolutely unnecessary things, or filling up carts in supermarkets. With great pleasure, you can spend a day in the park or outside the city, on fresh air and at minimal cost.

Remember that once you had a "hobby", you were fond of something, for example, music or growing tomatoes on the windowsill, or very much loved to collect the most complex models of aircraft carriers. Or maybe you should try to discover the talent of a painter or remember that there are wonderful books in the world that you just couldn't get ready to read. Or maybe you have long wanted to correct your figure or make your biceps more prominent? Get started now! Excellent remedy from stress.

It sounds trite, but life-tested: the rich also cry, the presence or absence of happiness does not depend on the number of rubles or dollars in their pocket. Money alone does not make people happier. The most brilliant works came from the pen or brush of masters during the periods of their greatest poverty and misfortune.

So, what we need from today:

1. Accept, as an axiom, that there is no stability in our time and never will be. Even if you are working now, have a fallback. It might come in handy.

2. Try to have multiple sources of income. Let it be a few thin streams. If suddenly one dries up - the rest will help you keep afloat.

3. Don't be afraid to think and act outside the box. Don't be afraid to be “different”. Exactly non-standard solutions sometimes give the most unexpected and positive results. Don't be afraid to be wrong!

4. At the slightest opportunity - learn. Don't be afraid to look ridiculous in someone's eyes. There is a possibility - study at least Chinese... Who knows, maybe this will be the deciding factor and help you draw your lucky lottery ticket.

5. Be optimistic! Friday the 13th? Are you alarming? Go ahead, get down to business! On Thursday 12th, repaint your black cat red - it will definitely bring you good luck.

The world is changing before our eyes, rapidly. Changes beyond recognition. You have to live with this.
There is only one life. Appreciate every moment, even in times of crisis.
Tell yourself: I am a man! I am a person! I can do everything! Life is Beautiful!
Any test is one more step up. Don't be afraid to walk up the stairs.