The state tries to dehumanize its opponents, but this always leads to great shocks or even tragedies Photo: IMAGO / Hindustan Times Three seemingly unrelated events. Well, two are somehow connected, but the third is not connected at all. And yet. In India, tens of thousands of young people protested over a scandal in medical school entrance exams.

This is also life. Concentrated, bright, explaining a lot about humanity and human nature Petr Sarukhanov / Novaya Gazeta What a pity that you are not interested in football! I am writing with almost no doubt that I got it right.

Economist Andrei Yakovlev says that the limit of possibilities has almost been reached The Russian economy continues to operate, but is increasingly entering a state of protracted stagnation. The budget deficit is growing, goods and services are becoming more expensive, production in civilian industries is declining, and problems are emerging with the execution of government contracts.

Patriotism is not about having everything your own, but about having everything Photo: Anton Novoderezhkin / Kommersant When on a direct line (it seems) Putin was told that kokoshniks were again in fashion among the people, I listened to this with surprise. Because fashion can't help but catch your eye. People either wear kokoshniks, or only the ombudsman of Lvov-Belov does it.

Sports commentator Vladimir Ivanov explains Stadiums for 70 thousand people are filled even at matches of teams that almost no one knew before the World Cup. Tickets can cost hundreds of dollars, huge screens make it impossible to miss a second of the match, and Americans are ready to watch sports even in cafes and airports. Why was the World Cup in the USA more successful than expected? How is America turning sports into a huge show and money-making machine?

Khodorkovsky's Lyceum near Moscow was first nationalized, and now they are hanging a gun on the wall. Vera Chelishcheva reports Lyceum "Podmoskovny" was created as a unique educational institution for orphans, children killed during military conflicts and terrorist attacks, as well as teenagers from difficult families. Here they were not just taught - they were treated as individuals, given a strong education and prepared for independent life.

Who will give them to Mr. Shvydkoy? An unknown and incompetent official? But there are rules - it’s called the Constitution Mikhail Shvydkoy. Photo: Sergey Savostyanov / TASS An era has different documents. Sometimes these are not keynote speeches by political leaders or high-ranking officials. A simple interview with a person like Mikhail Shvydkoy can become a snapshot of time.

What really happened? Aliens, comet or explosion? What happened on the morning of June 30, 1908 over Siberia? Why didn't an explosion with a power of tens of megatons leave a crater? Was it a meteorite, a comet, a natural explosion, or an alien spacecraft? In the new episode, Alexey Kuznetsov and Anton Oreh examine one of the most famous mysteries of the 20th century.

Why hasn't he been defeated yet? Every summer in Russia they again remember Sosnovsky's hogweed. But this has long been not just a seasonal nuisance, but a real environmental problem. Why is hogweed so dangerous? Where is it most actively spreading? Is it possible to stop him? Why is there still no accurate map of its distribution in the country? And what are the activists of the “Anti-hogweed” movement doing, who have been trying to fight this plant for years?

On the priorities of the party in power Photo: Anton Velikzhanin / Kommersant “Being for Putin is the basic minimum.” The party in power decided to play on the “youth” field. I write in quotes because that’s what she did in quotes. Young people are not interested in such PR, and for them to understand you, it is not enough to quote a funny song. But that's not even what I'm talking about.

Several lives and one fate of Vadim Tumanov

Despite open repressions against party members, Yabloko is going to the elections with the shortest program in its entire history Is it possible to stop a war using political methods, why the risks of prison and persecution will not stop a politician’s work, what awaits modern political prisoners and how we can help them - we are talking about this with the leader of the Yabloko party, Nikolai Rybakov. Yabloko party program of 43 main words

Lawyer Vladimir Bagaev talks about the project to reform the judicial system, prepared as part of the “Normalization Platform” project The Russian judicial system has long raised questions among lawyers, human rights activists and the participants in the trials themselves. Why were acquittals an exception? Who do the judges depend on? Is it possible to make the court truly independent?

It seems like they are getting married just to beat them up, and if it can’t be done, so what the hell Photo: Evgeny Razumny / Kommersant Even though it’s not spring or autumn now, exacerbations still happen. So the family issue has intensified over the past week - and in a variety of directions. True, it remains not entirely clear what exactly the “exacerbators” want. The chairman of the Duma Family Committee, Nina Ostanina, either defended traditional values, or tried to undermine them.

Vysotsky could be tried, we talk about two criminal cases