1.Russia has stepped upon the road of man-caused disasters. Every day, there are fires, explosions, falling planes, mine accidents, train crashes. The social contrasts are becoming increasingly obvious. The years to come will not be cloudless for the country. No great power nor civilization would assist Russia to survive and develop. On the contrary, many a power would like to inflict some serious damage upon us. These are the long-term tendencies, so there is need to count algorithms of our own actions. First of all, it is a matter of elevating the peoples' standard of living. "We are all living beyond the poverty line, but just on the different sides of it", a satirist observed.

2.The overall consent, which the public consciousness demonstrates, has different meanings. As the consensus means to presume, the society is either developing well, or stagnating well, or dieing well. When Thukydides was looking for the answer in the thirty years of Peloponnesian War, he, allowing himself a medical view, examined wounds, analyzed the process of the conqueror's decay, studied rotting the Greek civilization from the days of wars between the city-states till the civil war in its deepest madness. Do we need this kind of soberness of mind?

3.Half-a-century experience in studying the evolution of the mankind permits me to make four important conclusions. First of all, the principal condition to maintain the development is the macroeconomic stability. On the other hand, it is important to focus the economic growth directly on satisfying needs of the population. To launch the real development, the overall process is required - to take just the political measures would be insufficient. The fourth conclusion deals with public institutions: the steady economic development is possible, only when it is based on the processes with the broad populace participation.