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Who do you think should make the first step to start a relationship? In our culture it is customary for it to be the man. At least, that is what the overwhelming majority of women think. Yet many men, as surveys show, would like the woman to make the first step. And many are also convinced that in fact it is the woman who makes the first step, but in such a way that it looks as though the man is making it. The "experts" say that she makes this first step with her body, or with her eyes, or with

Dima was on his way to Moscow for yet another course — he worked for a firm offering solutions for risk management and corporate security: sometimes he ran the analysis, and sometimes the training, as he was about to do now. He travelled in style, on the Sapsan, sipping coffee from a branded cup with great pleasure. That was how he rewarded himself for a job well done, even if the job in question was still ahead of him. The German ICE, repainted in line with the ideas of Russian Railways, sped c

There is a well-known saying that character determines destiny. But what is this character? Some people have a difficult one, others an easy-going one. It can also be stubborn, or soft, or the kind that everyone acknowledges with involuntary admiration: now that is character! And it is generally held to be almost impossible to change.

Long ago, when I turned up for my first official course on the S-Theory with Dimitri Korenev at Freud's Legacy, he began by saying that there are two utterly different civilisations on our planet — and they are not men and women, but introverts and extraverts.