The participant of our project “After” Orientalist Andrei Lankov published in the “profile” the column “Friendship of the Peoples” - on the recognition of Pyongyang the sovereignty of the LPR and the DPR. “The current foreign policy of Russia causes both understanding and sympathy in Pyongyang.

Dmitrovskoye Shosse, Moscow, 2002 Mos.ru Every week we recall the events of the past by news from the Archive of Polit.ru - what happened in the country exactly twenty years ago. July 18, 2002 - debunking of truth, or the truth about public opinion VTsIOM polls reveal a very contradictory picture of the social “truth” about Chechnya.

Mikhail Davydov The Publishing House "New Literary Review" represents the book of historian Mikhail Davydov "The price of utopia. History of Russian modernization. " Why did all attempts to modernize and liberalize Russia over the past 160 years ended in failure? This key for our history is raised in his book by Mikhail Davydov.

In Norfolka, a unique treasure of Roman gold coins was discovered , buried several decades before the conquest of Britain by the Romans. Eleven gold coins ( aureus ) of the reign of Augustus were discovered by amateur archaeologists in a field near Norij for several years. The first find was made in August 2017. The treasure was purchased by the British Museum. Found coins are two types. On the obverse, both types of coins depict August, crowned with a laurel wreath .

The most interesting of our abstracts over the past week: The literary critic Mark Lipovetsky suggested recalling the survival strategies that the Soviet Tricksters used: “The Soviet political regime was based on the gap between what is declared and what is happening between rhetoric and practice. Adapting to this cynical regime, the Soviet man was supposed to become a cynic - as described in many historical studies.

On July 18, 1916, Vladimir Demikhov was born, the founder of transplantology, the first in the world to transplant the heart of the animal. Personal business Vladimir Petrovich Demikhov (1916-1998) was born on the Kuliki farm near Volgograd in a peasant family. The father of the future surgeon died during the civil war, the mother alone raised three children, and they all received higher education. At first, Demikhov studied at the FZU on a locksmith.

The publication “BUT” (the project “Novaya Gazeta” in Russia) publishes the text of Lyudmila Ulitskaya “Notes by the writer of freedom”. “... Freedom begins with the awareness of its own lack of freedom. <...> In 1991, freedom came. But there were no free people. Or there was too little to keep her. And then no one realized that there was no freedom without free people. My friends were in great enthusiasm. They stood in that square - all.

The Guardian publishes fragments of the lecture of the ex-Prime Minister of Great Britain Tony Blair. The politician claims that the global changes that the world will encounter in the near future will become the result of the activities not of Russia, but China - the “second superpower”, which is already “aggressively” fighting for its leadership.

The persecution of Soviet power to the Russian Church was such that it was not to say about their faith, but even silently follow it as a feat. The new martyrs and confessors, glorified in the face of the saints did not come: believed, prayed and meekly went to their Calvarys. “Polit.ru” recalls those who gave their lives for faith and by whose prayers the Russian Church is alive - even if almost nothing came to us besides the name.

Scientists have described the species composition of bacteria in the intestines of the larvae of a ash emerald narrow -colored gold. This insect is now actively spreading in Europe and North America and destroys ash, so it is important to control its numbers. In particular, representatives of the intestinal microbioma can help this, since among them the authors found bacteria potentially dangerous for a beetle. The work was announced by the press service of the Russian Scientific Fund.

A regular participant in our project “After” lawyer and political scientist Vladimir Pastukhov writes in his telegram channel: “Redistence of Russia is not entertainment. This is a difficult test for society as a whole and for each person separately. No one will go to him voluntarily until the house will blaze with might and main. And no one knows in advance what he is actually capable of. But, when it burns, it turns out that people are capable of more than today it seems to them.

Critic Galina Yuzefovich writes in his telegram channel: “Readers of 12–25 years old want to read about any form of Quirry, and if you do not completely turn off the entire Internet, they will do it. And if the Internet is nevertheless disconnected, they will come up with something-and no, the revived pioneering will not help. Yes, "high literature" with LGBT+ problems can be uprooted to some extent, but it will not die at all. It will go on the network, germinate on an updated liter.

The Publishing House "New Literary Review" represents the book of historian Mikhail Davydov "The price of utopia. History of Russian modernization. " Why did all attempts to modernize and liberalize Russia over the past 160 years ended in failure? This key for our history is raised in his book by Mikhail Davydov.

According to the Cancer Research UK Foundation, since 1973, the mortality rate from melanoma - the most fatal form of skin cancer - has increased by 219 % in men compared to 76 % growth in women. If we evaluate the last ten years, then the level of the disease in men increased by 47 % compared to 30 % among women. Every year, up to 1,400 men and up to 980 women dies from melanoma. Experts say that in men the disease is more often diagnosed in later stages.

Professor of the School of Historical Sciences of the Higher School of Economics, a specialist in the history of Russia at the end of the XIX - early XX centuries Mikhail Davydov in the book “The price of utopia. The history of Russian modernization ” is trying to find the answer to the question why all attempts to modernize and liberalize Russia over the past 160 years ended in failure.