Money for Pakistan

Now, southern province of Pakistan is affected. In Germany, all TV channels are constantly calling for donations....last night, 8 million euros donated alone! Impressive. 

Rich Russians

What Dostoyevsky said in his novelle The Gambler is true 145 years on in the face of fires and smog in Moscow: whoever can afford it, leaves the Mega City: "Because all Russians who have grown rich go to Paris, [...]." (Chapter XV).

Quotation from "Dubrowski" by Aleksander Pushkin (1832)

"Was es fuer ein Unglueck ist?, entgegnete die boese Gattin. Weisst du denn nicht, was das fuer eine Vorbedeutung hat? Eine Vorbedeutung? Dass das Pfeiffen das Geld aus dem Hause lockt?" (Chapter XI)