Nestor Pilawski Illustration by Elena Kholmova , specially for "Discourse" First, say who you are. This is what is increasingly required today by any public and social space - from social networks and algorithms to government agencies. Now the debate is not only about what is said, but also about who has the right to speak at all. The right demands to remember origins, the left demands the experience of oppression, but both camps increasingly use the same logic.

Marina Simakova Illustration by an anonymous author specially for "Discourse" Pope Leo XIV called for the disarmament of artificial intelligence in his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas. He chose a strong word deliberately - by analogy with nuclear disarmament. The pontiff signed the document on the digital age on the 135th anniversary of Rerum Novarum, Leo XIII's message on the “social question” and factory work.

Nadezhda Vorobyova Saint, demon, healer, libertine, hero-lover and pop culture meme - over more than a hundred years, Grigory Rasputin has turned into dozens of almost dissimilar characters. Each era rewrote his history anew, endowing him with features that spoke more about the fears and hopes of his contemporaries than about the man himself.

Valeria Kats If you eat about the same thing every day, avoid new foods, or feel really stressed when your usual food isn't around, you're probably not being "cranky." Food selectivity (FSS) is a persistent preference for a limited range of foods. It can be expressed in different ways: some eat only certain textures, some only eat familiar brands, some cannot stand the smell or sight of “foreign” food on the plate.

Discourse Can a person who defends the state be called an anarchist? In the nineties, the US anarchist movement experienced one of its most notorious internal splits. The American publicist and one of the most caustic critics of modern political theory, Bob Black, publicly accused Murray Bookchin, a man considered by many to be the main modern theorist of anarchism, of abandoning the essence of the movement.

Daniil Zhayvoronok Illustration: Ivan Kobrin , specially for Discourse There are no bosses in feminism. Not only feminists themselves talk about it, but also officials, punk bands, glossy influencers, regional activists, opposition and pro-government media - some despise the other, others do not even know about each other’s existence.

Sasha Krop “The very choice of Jerusalem shows that Mutsuraev already thinks of the Chechen war not as a local conflict, but as part of a struggle that covers the entire Muslim world.” / Illustration: Vesha Dalesova Timur Mutsuraev’s songs at the beginning sounded like a requiem for fallen friends and commanders and a lyrical chronicle of battles - from Grozny and Shatoy to Pervomaisky.

Discourse Propaganda poster “Liberated Woman of the East” (sketch by Gorodetsky, 1920). At first she didn't even have a voice. At the age of 14, Sholpan Imanbaeva was married to a cruel rich man who kicked and humiliated her. A few years later, she escaped and in 1925 published the poem “Through the Mouths of Farmhands” - on behalf of a beaten wife, whom her husband fed with dog bones, and thousands of other women whose life was constant in violence and complete lack of rights.

Ksenia Kurbatova “After a car accident, Laura finds herself in the country house of an unfamiliar family - in a space where someone else’s loss gradually overlaps with her own crisis” / Still from the film What can bring you back to life after a meeting with death? The new film “Reflections No.

Dina Ivina An ambulance can take twenty minutes to travel, which is five times longer than the amount of time the brain has after cardiac arrest. During this period, a person’s life often depends not on the doctor, but on the one who happens to be nearby. An automatic external defibrillator (AED) can use voice prompts to help a passerby perform resuscitation: it analyzes the heart rhythm itself and will not allow you to press a button if the shock is not needed.

AI Sector The illustrations and cards in the material were prepared by the author together with the editors of samizdat Now everyone has an ideal assistant in their pocket: he doesn’t get tired, works quickly and can figure out almost any problem. AI has also become popular among the media, NGOs, and civil initiatives: it is used to write grant applications, prepare research, and communicate with partners.

Nestor Pilawski At the Goka Awudja Hunoga Temple, Lome, Togo. Photo by the author. “Salaam alaikum! This is Alafia. World".

Ilya Azar Politician Ilya Yashin at the founding congress of the Peaceful Russia party, June 12-13, 2026 A new party has appeared in Berlin - “Peaceful Russia”. Former political prisoner Ilya Yashin was elected its chairman, and the political council included Sergei Davidis from Memorial, feminists Dasha Serenko and Zalina Marshenkulova, writer Ivan Filippov, businessman Sergei Petrov, ex-director of FBK Vladimir Ashurkov and other representatives of the Russian anti-war emigration.

Dmitry Nich The image was created by a person using neural networks Pasternak does not answer. Shalamov speaks alone.

Vanya Zhigal Replicas of piggy banks in the form of a bust of Josip Broz Tito in the gift shop of the Museum of Yugoslavia. Belgrade, photo by the author The future sells for 30 euros. An acid pink ceramic head of Tito, purchased from a Belgrade museum, takes Vanya Žigala back to the history of socialist Yugoslavia, the most famous experiment in the “third way” between East and West.