Professor, Doctor of Sociological Sciences Alexander Filippov, in an interview with the publication “ST-T-L” discusses the costs of the current state of the concept of the “Russian world”: “My thought is that the idea of ​​the Russian world, as it is presented now, does not find conformity not only in the experience of the USSR (this is understandable), but also in the experience of the Russian Empire, which was one of the long experiments of our statehood.

Calling himself economist Mikhail Khazin demands to deal with the remnants of "systemic liberals" in the power: “... It’s just a little to dismiss them-over the past decades, they have grown personnel that profess the same line, these personnel work within the framework of the regulatory framework they created, both at the level of instructions for ordinary executors and at the level of adopted laws.

RBC writes: “In August, Russian consumers continued to reduce purchases of clothing and shoes, as well as household appliances and electronics, but they increased the volume of purchases in grocery stores. Such data are contained in the study of the “CHEC of the Fiscal Data Operator” resource “OFD Platform” (takes into account data from 1.1 million online cash desks in Russia), conducted at the request of RBC. < ...

Member of the Federation Council, co-author of many repressive laws, United Russia Andrei Klishas quotes and criticizes a colleague-senator Sergey Tsekov (also United Russia) in his telegram channel: “Senator Tsecov told RIA Novosti that he considers it necessary to prohibit traveling abroad to everyone who is at recruiting age.

Political scientist Vladimir Gelman writes on one of the social networks: “... mass dissatisfaction as a factor in the fall of autocracy is secondary in relation to the conflicts of the elites. According to Geddes, Wright and Franz, only 30 % of cases of the collapse of authoritarian regimes after WWII were the result of mass protests (the rest - intra -elite conflicts). < ... > ... mass protests do not occur from scratch - a serious organizational base is needed for them.

Political scientist Konstantin Kalachev writes: “The part of the population that previously watched only the TV, in search of answers to questions on mobilization and evasion from mobilization, will begin to master the Internet. Moreover, he is his segment, where they write not only about who and how to mobilize, how much they pay or will not pay, how to ruin, where to run away. Earlier, passive and apolitical citizens will expand the horizons and discover a lot for themselves.

The journalist, a participant in our project “After”, Yuri Saprykin recalls in an article for Kommersant the series “Brigade”, which was released on Russian screens exactly twenty years ago: “The surge of banditry, however, did not follow after the release of the series, rather the opposite. The "brigade" is not just saying "do it like me" - rather, sets accents in the story of how it was.

The new study of the masterpiece of Jan Vermaur “thrush” (1658–1660) revealed the painted details of its compositions, which forced to look differently at the artist’s creative process. The following year, the Amsterdam Reixmuzum plans to hold an exhibition, where 27 out of 35 currently known Vermeur paintings will be shown.

Michael Bond Publishing houses "Hummingbird" and "ABC-Atticus" represent Michael Bond's book “Guide Neuron. How our brain solves spatial problems ”(translation by Yuri Goldberg). Navigation skills are deeply rooted in our biology. The ability to find a way over long distances in prehistoric times gave Homo sapiens an evolutionary advantage, allowing you to explore the most remote corners of the planet.

Publishing houses "Hummingbird" and "ABC-Atticus" represent Michael Bond's book “Guide Neuron. How our brain solves spatial problems ”(translation by Yuri Goldberg). Navigation skills are deeply rooted in our biology. The ability to find a way over long distances in prehistoric times gave Homo sapiens an evolutionary advantage, allowing you to explore the most remote corners of the planet.

Political scientist Grigory Golosov writes on one of the social networks : “No one noticed, but with mobilization the same thing happens that has happened with the elections for years. There are local performers who seek to fulfill the plan at all costs. They know that at the same time they can run into troubles, if they overdo it, but there will be no punishment or it will be soft, but if the plan is not fulfilled, you can pay a very bread position.

Less than a year after the 1200-year-old chubby boat was extracted from Mendot Lake in Wisconsin, a second, even more ancient boat was found in the same lake. Radiocarbon analysis dates it 1000 BC. e., which makes this find the oldest boat ever discovered in the area of ​​the Great Lakes, and the earliest direct archaeological evidence of the use of water transport in this region. Archaeologists were so surprised by the results that they repeated the study of the wood sample three times.

The economic effect of RN-Yuganskneftegaz from the implementation of measures to increase production efficiency since the beginning of 2022 exceeded 5 billion rubles. The enterprise has approved and successfully implement 130 projects for increasing production efficiency, of which 22 in the first half of 2022.

The most interesting of our abstracts over the past week: Historian and literary critic Andrei Zorin, a participant in our project “After”, understands the mutations of the ideology of late Putinism: “If before it seemed that the insanity in its greatness has a purely restoration character and expresses only indefinite nostalgia for the USSR, or the Russian Empire, now its national-mixed aspect has been discovered.

The literary critic Oleg Proskurin at one time drew attention to an interesting marker: citizens who are striving to show their education often discuss about the “non-commissioned officer widow” from the Gogol “auditor”, which “carved itself”. Recently, those who protest against the “abolition of Russian culture” are especially willing to recall recently. In the role of a widow - Western civilization, which punishes itself, abandoning Pushkin and Tchaikovsky.