This week, on May 23, 2025, the Werkleitz Festival opened in the city of Halle, Saxony-Anhalt. The festival will run all summer, until September 14, 2025. The city of Halle, or Halle in German, is one of the most cozy cities in East Germany, where almost all historical buildings have been preserved. During World War II, the city was not subjected to devastating Allied bombing, unlike the nearby cities of Leipzig and the regional capital Magdeburg. Art Museum Moritzburg (Halle).

On September 17, 2023, the exhibition of the New York feminist art group Guerrilla Girls at the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Hamburg, entitled “F*word - Guerrilla Girls and Feminist Graphic Design,” closed. In 1989, the Guerrilla Girls attracted attention with the slogan "Do women have to be naked to get into the Metropolitan Museum of Art?" Since then, they have been considered one of the most famous feminist art collectives.

Volker Lang: Monument to deserters in Hamburg, 2015 The monument to deserters and other victims of military justice in Hamburg on Dammtor / Stephanplatz appeared not so long ago, in 2015. It is located between two other monuments: on the one hand, to the 76th Infantry Regiment of 1936, erected during National Socialism.

On July 14, the president signed 123 federal laws. Why so many at once? Why on this day? Did he read them? Is it possible to work through such an array of legal documents in 24 hours? Photo: social networks It must be said that this is not the first time that Vladimir Putin has signed such a huge array of laws in a short period of time. So, in 2014, he signed 92 laws, and in July 2021, he approved 146 legislative acts, albeit in 2 days.

Gennady Burbulis came to politics, like many other democrats, from the discussion club organized by him. The difference was that the club was in Sverdlovsk then, in which Boris Yeltsin was the main character. And as a fellow countryman, the associate professor of the philosophy of Burbulis entered the near circle of Yeltsin, who then needed a political manager without his own large ambitions (which Yuri Afanasyev and Gabriel Popov then had then).

In society Resignation without gratitude June 8, 2022 Alexey Makarkin The resignation of Metropolitan Hilarion without making him adopted according to the rules of church etiquette for gratitude for the labors incurred is an obvious opal.

The decree of the cathedral of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), held on May 27 in Kyiv, is a masterpiece of church diplomacy. “If we want everything to remain as it is, it is necessary that everything change,” this quote from the famous Leopard Visconti.

In society Vladimir Zhirinovsky died April 6, 2022 Alexey Makarkin Vladimir Zhirinovsky was a politician who combined the qualities of a public politician who for three decades effectively used the media resource, and a party organizer who created a powerful electoral machine.

There is an idea that rooted institutions are easy to break. In fact, everything is more complicated and depends on the nature of the institute. The Bolsheviks, having come to power, decided to destroy the "whole world of violence" to the ground. And in a short time, this world, as they would say now, was canceled - all the power institutions that have survived from imperial times were eliminated, the bank deposits confiscated, and then canceled private property.

In society Results - 2021. Russia - Ukraine - USA: ultimatum or request? January 5, 2022 Alexey Makarkin The problem of Russia, which affects the adoption of both strategic and to a certain extent tactical foreign policy decisions, including the Ukrainian issue, is the break between official priorities and public sentiments that will intensify in connection with a change in generations. And the situation in Russian society differs both from the East and the West.

The problem of Russia, which affects the adoption of both strategic and to a certain extent tactical foreign policy decisions, including the Ukrainian issue, is the break between official priorities and public sentiments that will intensify in connection with a change in generations. And the situation in Russian society differs both from the East and the West.

Parliamentary elections in Germany on September 28, 2021, Alexey Makarkin On September 26, the next parliamentary elections in Germany were held. As a result, the government will be formed and the chancellor is nominated, which will replace the Angel Merkel, who has held this position over the past 16 years. The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SDPG) won, gaining 25.7% of the vote.