The Bolshoy Theater has changed over the years of restoration and reconstruction. On the one hand, it returned to the imperial splendour, it became incredibly beautiful.

 Freedom of independent choice is a gift of God, and namely this gift is the reason for the existence of evil and sin (this is connected with the concept of theodicy – God’s innocence in the world evil owing to existence of freedom of choice for the person)

Russia is accumulating human resource of the new elite. Some representatives of the Soviet elite are still active. Stably active are some characters of the Yeltsin era. Quite successful in life are the nominees to the official elite of “fat zero”. But among all the elite waves there is what is called “breakage” — those, who have not attained longed-for lines, dismissed, discharged, exiled.

The human brain is a natural neural network, but model of the brain can be approximately represented in the form of artificial distributed neural network.

Alexander Ageev’s opening remarks.

When deciding on the intervention of Russia in the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict in August 2008, Medvedev and Putin faced a difficult choice: not to interfere meant “losing a face”, to allow destabilization in the whole Caucasus, but to defend South Ossetia meant to take on a confrontation with the United States and NATO.

It is imperative that Russia is rich with creative, initiative people, ready to realize these opportunities. It isn’t their fault that the overall stagnant situation, the dominance of bureaucrats, conservative party diktat often did not allow them to realize the most  ambitious ideas.

Our problem is not in the absence of ideas, but in the fact that we are not able to commercialize them, that is to make products out of them and to sell them.

The mechanism of macroeconomic quasi-stabilization is found, although its main features are not yet fully understood by the world economic community.

  Cost-effective development of the Arctic requires creating and developing many new technologies, in their complexity not yielding to space and military ones.