Evgeniy Satanovsky is an entrepreneur and philanthropist, president of the Middle East Institute and professor at ISAA Moscow State University, ex-president of the Russian Jewish Congress, journalist and writer, host of the popular program “From Three to Five” on the Vesti FM radio station. September 11, 2019 – anniversary of the terrorist attack in the United States and the Beheading of John the Baptist. The author’s telegram channel “Armageddonich” started working. Texts are written every day, three at a time. Day after day, week after week, month after month. There is no censorship. You write like an akyn: what you see, you sing about. The life around us unfolds like a Mobius strip. If you want this, or if you want this, you will still get what you get. They used to promise communism, now they promise nothing. You look around - the government is stalling, officials are stealing like crazy. They go to church, but from the ten biblical commandments, the one about “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is thy neighbor’s” (St. Ambrose of Milan), they either removed it or interpreted it in such a way that the absence of words about budgets there federal, municipal, national projects and programs make any action in relation to them permissible. At the same time, in the post-Soviet space, as well as in the USA, Europe and Israel, everything is built no smarter. There are cockroaches everywhere. You write and write, and suddenly, oops, the government has changed. The prime minister is not Medvedev, but Mishustin. Just in time for Chinese New Year. So you can publish a book. Farewell, year of the yellow earthen pig. Hello, White Steel Rat!