The index committee is due to meet next week to consider including shares on the waiting list.

Weather is one of the most important factors in the economy. It's clear from the example of Russia's recent freeze that these kinds of weather conditions can cause unexpected consequences.

The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.

Only when a system behaves in a sufficiently random way may the difference between past and future, and therefore irreversibility, enter into its description...The arrow of time is the manifestation of the fact that the future is not given, that, as the French poet Paul Valery emphasized, 'time is a construction'.

Our suspicions are being confirmed that Nashi will serve as a cover for storm brigades that will use violence against democratic organisations.

I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.