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.

Azat Kapenov The image was created by a person using neural networks The scary truth of the feed: the more news, notifications, feeds and events that pass through the screen, the harder it is to understand what really matters.

Alexander Vorobiev Idea and authorship of the illustration: anastasiia_popv On the outskirts of a Latin American city there is an inconspicuous restaurant serving Italian cuisine. Its owner smiles broadly at guests from Russia, drinks rum with them, boasts of his success in diving and admits his sympathies for Putin. Almost 50 years ago, he was a member of the Italian radical left organization and participated in the kidnapping and murder of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro.

Yulia Galyamina The image was created by a person using neural networks Is it possible to divide society by banning rallies, closing independent media, killing and driving political opponents out of the country? Politician Yulia Galyamina shows how closed chat rooms, anti-cafes and book clubs are turning into a new counter-public sphere - a network of horizontal communities without a single center.

Discourse Illustration created by a person using a neural network For thousands of years, people looked at the sky and tried to predict not only the weather or the change of seasons, but also fate: wars, the death of rulers, the future of states. This is how astrology appeared. It was created not only by Babylonian priests and Egyptian sages, but also by great scientists who contributed to the formation of European civilization.

Shura Radina The image was created by a person using neural networks A good girl should be silent. But Sonita Alizadeh put on a wedding dress, drew a barcode on her forehead and recorded a rap about girls who are sold into marriage like commodities. Burka Band took to the stage in blue burkas: not out of obedience, but so that they would not be killed after the concert. Marie Boine sang a yoik, which in a religious family was considered a diabolical activity.

Fedor Polyakov Still from the film “Captain Volkonogov fled” Why was “The Death of Stalin” banned, “Leviathan” called Russophobic, and “Mr. Nobody against Putin” caused a variety of reactions - from fierce debate on the Internet to demonstrative ignorance at home?

Stanislav Lvovsky Illustration courtesy of the author Speech no longer belongs only to people. Google engineer Blake Lemoine, who worked with the LaMDA language model, decided that it was conscious - after which he was first suspended and then fired. Why do even AI developers hear a person in him?

Leonid Moizhes The image was created by a person using neural networks Orcs teach Protestantism. Religious scholar Leonid Moizhes traces the history of tabletop role-playing games - from 19th-century Prussian war simulators to Dungeons & Dragons, Vampire: the Masquerade and Monsterhearts - and shows that games about elves, cultists and vampires have long been a way to model religion, morality and even human identity.