Russian scientists have found that hunters who inhabited the North Caucasus 20 thousand years ago widely used composite arrows and darts from obsidian and silicon for hunting. With the help of such tools, they mined ungulates: goats or Caucasian tours, horses, deer, wild boars and moose, moving in the pursuit of them at considerable distances. The press service of the Russian Scientific Fund spoke about the study.

Literary critic Galina Yuzefovich writes: “It seems to me that“ the abolition of Russian culture ”is some kind of our unique national sport. Moreover, which is characteristic, they are passionate about both sides of the current ideological confrontation (there are more sides there, I know, but for simplicity you can accept such an optics).

Lawyer and political analyst Vladimir Pastukhov, a regular participant in our project “After”, writes in Novaya Gazeta: “The naive assumption that Europe can be needed“ useful Russians ”(in the actual terminology -“ good Russians ”), that is, in the context of the current situation - those Russians who oppose the special operation (for their identification they even offer to sign the corresponding“ internationally recognized body ”of the declaration) is not confirmed in practice.

Political scientist Alexei Makarkin comments on the article by Henry Kissinger, about whom our "Snopsis" has already told: “In public space, the next theses of Henry Kissinger are actively discussed. With all the attention of the discussion, it must be understood that we are talking about the opinion of the famous, status, but still an expert who since 1977 does not have a direct impact on the adoption of political decisions.

Sociologist Andrei Gerasimov writes: “... I consider analytically weak conceptualization of any modern society, even Chinese, as a totalitarian. This does not add a bit of information to what is known about them at the level of individual facts. Yes, the Russian Federation uses inertia repressive measures from the baggage of the late USSR, but by and large it has already scored on institutional flushing of the brain through party cells, psychiatric children, schools, correctional institutions.

VTsIOM reports: “In the framework of the World Cup-2022, about every third Russian (30 %) was interested in football competitions. More than half of the respondents did not follow the progress of the World Cup this year (55 %), 13 % did not know about its conduct at all. Argentina is the main favorite of Russian fans (24 % of those who follow the course of the World Cup). Next are France (18 %) and Morocco (17 %), Brazil (14 %) and Croatia (13 %).

"Vedomosti" report: “35 % of the inhabitants of Russia in 2022 began to give fewer gifts, should be from the report of the marketplace of the local stores Flowwow and the Romir Research Center. Another 40 % of respondents, according to them, began to save on them. The survey also showed that on New Year's holidays, 92 % of Russians give gifts, more often they do this only for birthdays (97 %).

The Alpina Non-Fixes Publishing House represents the book of the famous primatologist France de Vaal “Different. Male and female through the eyes of a primatologist ”(translation by Anna Dambis, scientific editor Marina Butovskaya). In the world of people, as in the world of animals, representatives of different sexes behave unequally. The world -famous primatologist France de Vaal has been watching monkeys in the wild and in research centers for more than forty years.

Two treasures of metal objects of the Late Bronze Age (1300–700 BC) were discovered by buried one under another in the Polish village of Kalisk. The largest of them is one of the largest and most diverse complexes of the Bronze Age, ever found in the Pomeranian governorship of Poland, although earlier in this region more than 320 treasures of the Bronze Age and the early Iron Age were discovered.

The analysis of tin ingots found on the sunken Phoenician ship of the late Bronze Age (around 1320 BC) showed that tin was obtained in Uzbekistan, thousands of kilometers from the dates. This means that the small communities of cattle breeders in the mountainous regions of Central Asia also engaged in mining prey and were associated with extensive international retail chains that covered Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

On December 19, 1906, Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU was born Personal business Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (1906-1982) was born in the village of Kamenskoye, Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine, where his parents came from the Kursk region. The father was a technical worker at the metallurgical plant.

In the world of people, as in the world of animals, representatives of different sexes behave unequally. The world -famous primatologist France de Vaal has been watching monkeys in the wild and in research centers for more than forty years. On the pages of the book "Different. The male and female eyes of a primatologist ”He is asked by questions that underlie any discussion about gender identity.

Economist Yakov Mirkin writes: ““ We are damned. We will always have it. We are created as tyranny - we will be. We are doomed to poverty. We should not be. Ahead - chaos. ” So say many voices from destroyed economies, from failed or aggressive states. All this is not so. No people are doomed. Not any people have a task. In history there were a lot of unexpected changes in societies that led to the better. Unexpected? They have their own patterns. It is important for us to find them out.

The former chairman of the Council of Memorial (the organization was recognized as a foreign agent, its activities in Russia were terminated by court decision) , a participant in our project “After” Alexander Cherkasov made a speech with a speech at the Global Peace Photo Award. Speech publishes "New Gazeta. Europe": “... The name of the emperor who died in these places, in the Windobon, the current Vienna, was preserved, eighteen centuries ago, is Marcus Aurelius.

The publicist and public figure (as indicated on the site) Andrei Soshenko publishes in the “Russian People's Line” the article “Why did Argentina and not France or Germany won: “Back in November, before the World Cup, the“ civilized West ”opened a whole campaign to discredit Qatar as a state, after they stated that they do not accept sodomy and are not going to observe the rules of compliance with the rights of sexual minorities invented by the West during the championship. < ...