Excerpt from a book about Karelian ritual crying The cult of ancestors in the Karelian traditional culture was developed in such a way that the ritual mourning of the dead has become the most important part of the funeral rite - and not only.

About the extinction of the species and fateful expedition of George Steller The sea cows were huge, prone to empathy, rare and so peaceful animals that they completely disappeared from the face of the earth in the second half of the 18th century.

About the book of Azar Nafisi "Reading Lolita in Tehran" Documentary Roman Azar Nafisi “Reading Lolita in Tehran” was first published in 2003, but her Russian translation became available only now. It would seem that over the years he had to lose his relevance, but it happened on the contrary. The book is published against the backdrop of large -scale protests in Iran, the main slogan of which is “zan, zendegi, azadi” - “woman, life, freedom”.