Today is the day of Siberia, which became part of Russia so long ago that it no longer matters whether these vast taiga territories were handed over to the Russian state or voluntarily joined it through a popular referendum. As some political Siberians joke today, if Armak Timofeevich did not rule Siberia, then NATO troops would roam its taiga expanses, and Siberian bears, instead of the current free people, would have to experience all the hardships and deprivations of European integration. Of course, Siberia is reliably protected from the unfriendly Western Europe by the rocky Ural Mountains and the power of Moscow. On the other hand, Siberia today is not only a strong rear, but also one of the fronts, which also needs to look carefully at the sky and maintain a regime of constant readiness. Lomonosov predicted that Russian power would increase in Siberia. But on Siberia's agenda is the question of how and with what it can grow in the current difficult situation. Siberia, like the whole of Russia, now has only two allies, of which Emperor Alexander III spoke, but the prices of oil and gas, due to the uncertainty of their prospects on the world market, can disappoint us. It is hardly worth relying heavily on the shoulders of Chinese and other eastern neighbors. Therefore, the declared turn to the east, although it also concerns Siberia, still the gaze of the Siberians remains traditionally directed to the place where the sun sets, from where the attack of the Kremlin bells has been heard for centuries in a row.