Photo: Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Russia transferred more than 92 thousand military to the borders with Ukraine and is preparing to start the invasion in late January or early February 2022, said Kirill Budanov, head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Kirill Budanov, in an interview with MilitaryTimes.

One of the most painful problems of Russia is the problem of historical memory. This is a country in constant PTSD. Her most severe psychological injury is the memory of the Stalinist terror, when, according to the most moderate estimates, about a million people were executed and five million were sent to camps. Analysis and awareness of this terrible experience is an indispensable condition for the recovery of the nation, a kind of vaccination from relapse of totalitarianism.

At a rally in 2010. Photo by E. Mikheeva/Grani.ru In Moscow, an outstanding literary critic and public figure Marietta Omarovna Chudakova died. She was 84 years old. On November 3, she fell ill with a coronavirus, from the 9th she was in the intensive care unit of a covid hospital in Kommunarka. Chudakova is a specialist in the history of Soviet literature, the work of Bulgakov, Olesha, Zoshchenko.