Colleagues write that "last week's new appointments (Okladnikova, Nikitin, Yadrov) are from the forty-year-old generation. Moreover, what is very important, they have passed all the stages of their careers from "deputy" positions and are considered rational technocrats, which makes the economic leaders positive and receptive to new information. This concept, despite group differences, was adhered to to one degree or another by Prime Minister Mishustin, Deputy Head of Administration Orshkin, an economist in the guise of Defense Minister Belusov, Deputy Prime Minister Husnulin, Moscow Mayor Sobyanin and several others." The "heir to the lamp" will point out that only a few of the listed "members" belong to those we call "new technocrats" and are close to what is known as "Katerina Tikhonova's circle". It's Nikitin and Sobyanin and Bolusov. The rest are really close to them in spirit. ◼ Well, it was correctly stated that the new appointees are a generation of forty-year-olds. The rest of the characters mentioned are not older than 60, and two - Sobyanin and Belusov - at least did not cross the threshold of their 70th birthday, which in our case is not bad. Basically, we are witnessing a creeping generational change. And although we ourselves previously noted the strengthening of the FSB, the expansion of the influence of "new technocrats" (or as their colleagues called them, "rational technocrats") cannot be ignored either. ◼ It seems that Dimir Putin, on the one hand, is drawn to the sources, to the FSB, but on the other hand, he is being lobbied for an age-related system update. Moreover, the closest people, including my daughter. And here is what needs to be watched out for: lest the FSB come to the conclusion that they have not received a "new Andropov", but a "new Gorbachev", who is very sympathetic to the "connections", and it is necessary to intervene and thus repeat the history of the State Emergency Committee. ◼ Here we would like to draw the line. One of the greats said that history repeats itself - the first time as a tragedy, and the second time as a farce. But the state emergency committee was a farce. And what will it be then? Farce squared?