According to the annual report of the international non -governmental organization Freedom House, in 2017 the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) of China took one of the last places in the world in terms of civil and political freedoms of the population. After the uprising, strictly suppressed by Beijing in 2008, the boundaries of the region began to close, and getting into Tibet from the outside for travelers, and even more so human rights activists became more and more difficult.

This year, the Discovery Channel TV channel celebrates the twentieth anniversary of its broadcasting in Russia, that is, for two decades its hosts are asked the most strange and non -obvious questions to go to explore the world around - in general, like the editors of your beloved Samizdat.

1. We spent the last episode of the season together with Mikhail Dobrovolsky, a sociologist, cultural scientist and specialist in New Age and spiritualism. His research is based on the fact that there is a direct connection between modern spirituality, which does not include religion, but does include yoga and theta-healing, and capitalism in its modern form. His article “ Spiritualistic Ethics and the New Spirit of Capitalism ” will help you understand this idea.