Putin proposed creating departments of Russian language and literature separate from other philological areas Photo: Vladimir Smirnov / TASS On the eve of the birthday of A.S. Pushkin Vladimir Putin held a meeting of the Council for the Implementation of State Policy in the field of supporting the Russian language and the languages ​​of the peoples of the Russian Federation via video link. During the two-hour conversation, a lot of interesting things were said.

The scandal around the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences: background and context, denunciation of Aristotle and the battle for the “abscess” Illustration: Petr Sarukhanov / Novaya Gazeta At the Moscow Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences - searches, “seizure of documents”, detentions, recognizance not to leave. After two days in a pre-trial detention center, Svetlana Mesyats, a researcher of ancient philosophy, was placed under house arrest.

Once again about the spring aggravation of historical politics that happened to the Russian authorities Photo: Artem Geodakyan / TASS The Russian authorities have a spring aggravation of historical politics. Memorial was finally banned*. The Gulag Museum was finally repurposed. In Tomsk, a complex in memory of victims of political repression was dismantled. A photo exhibition about Polish Russophobia was opened in Katyn.

And to the question “Whose Crimea?” answer without hesitation: “King Mithridates, of course.” Once again about the case of the historian Butyagin Alexander Butyagin. Photo: social networks A Warsaw court decided to satisfy Ukraine's request for the extradition of Russian archaeologist and Hermitage employee Alexander Butyagin.

How left discourse influenced the perception of war. "Inelerant" look from Israel Israel. Photo: AP / TASS Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel is in the information blockade and should be ready for the blockade of economic. Experts talk about the growing isolation of Israel. “When the war ends, the situation will not return to the previous status quo, the idea of ​​people about Israel has changed irreversibly,” analysts say.

Once again about the film Anastasia Trofimova, shot in the trenches Anastasia Trofimova. Photo: Trofimova.Works The documentary “Russians in the war*” , whose premiere at festivals in Venice and Toronto in 2024 caused a large political-kinematographic scandal, recently laid out in an open-albeit paid-access. The author, the Russian-Canadian documentary Anastasia Trofimova, recalled cooperation with Russia Today Documentary and accused her of broadcasting the Russian propaganda narrative.

The street exhibition "Protection of the sovereignty of the Russian state" has opened in Moscow Exhibition "Protection of the sovereignty of the Russian state." Photo: Victoria Artemyeva / "New Gazeta" An exhibition “Protection of the Sovereignty of the Russian State: History and Modernity” was opened on Gogolevsky Boulevard in Moscow.

On the collection of articles of members of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, which can be considered the manifesto of today's state ideology Photo: AP / TASS A few days ago, a collection of articles by members of the Security Council of the Russian Federation “On the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory” was published. It has 36 texts - according to the number of members of the Security Council.

The fact that the history of the country is rewritten by judges - and not only in Russia Photo: Tenani Serge / Avenir Pictures / ABA Under the recent news from France, you can put a hashtag #in a non -captable: French judges also decided to compete with falsifiers of history. The right -wing politician and journalist Eric darmur was sentenced to a fine for his statement that Marshal Peten saved Jews during the Nazi occupation.

About how Gossmi celebrated the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Aushwitz death camp and what does modern politics have to do with it The surviving prisoners of Auschwitz, 1945. Photo: Imago Stock & PEOPLE / TASS There is a tradition: every year on January 27, on the day of the liberation of Aushwitz, Russian television, news agencies and even state departments talk about 4 million dead in this camp.

A hundred years ago, an attempt was made on Einstein’s life by a woman whom few people remember, but who appeared in the biographies of many “greats.” Albert Einstein, 1928. Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS The woman discussed in this article lived an amazing life. Arkady Averchenko and Ilya Ilf, Mikhail Bulgakov and Archbishop Nikolai (Kasatkin) wrote about her. She interviewed Pyotr Stolypin, made scandals with Pavel Miliukov and came to see Lenin in the Kremlin.

About the unsteady boundaries of “I/we”, “us/alien” Petr Sarukhanov / Novaya Gazeta “Still the same invincible melody, through so many processes, only in variations: after all, you and I are communists! And how could you be inclined to oppose us? Repent! After all, you and we together are us ! Historical understanding is slowly maturing in society. And when it’s ripe, it’s so simple.

Mikhail Edelstein on the controversy surrounding the war in Israel, photographic thinking and the dangers of irrational empathy Victims of the Hamas attack on Israel, October 7, 2023. Photo: AP / TASS In the last year, we have witnessed how a wall of misunderstanding has grown between Israelis and supporters of Israel, on the one hand, and those who demand an immediate end to the “carnage” in Gaza, and now also in Lebanon, on the other.

Physicists are now monitoring the reliability of the scientific works of philologists from Moscow State University - and are looking for state secrets in these works Petr Sarukhanov / Novaya Gazeta There is another innovation at Moscow State University. From now on, employees of the Faculty of Philology are required to endorse everything they write in the rector’s office. The examination to identify state secrets in works about Lermontov and the aorists was entrusted to physicists.

Mikhail Edelshtein - about the work of the late Grebenshchikov* in general and about his new album in particular Boris Grebenshchikov. Photo: Yulia Kharina 18+. THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) WAS PRODUCED, DISTRIBUTED AND (OR) SENT BY FOREIGN AGENT GREBENSHHIKOV BORIS BORISOVICH OR CONCERNES THE ACTIVITIES OF FOREIGN AGENT GREBENSHHIKOV BORIS BORISOVICH.