Art Critic Milena Orlova writes: “ This was the best director of the Tretyakov Gallery of those I knew. And I remember five. And Zelfira is one of the best, one might say, exemplary museum directors in our country, and there are very few of them, believe me. I found a photo - this is August 4, 2021, after the interview, which I took from the director in her office in Lavrushinsky on the topic "Museum of the Future".

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.

Thanks to information from the Kepler space telescopes and Tess, astronomers found a new exoplanet located about 70 light years from the Sun. The planet K2-415B is at least three times larger than the Earth. The opening is reported in an article published on the ARXIV preprint server. Org.

Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports: “ Women at work usually joke about life and children, men - about the relations of sexes and politics. But, as Superjob polls show , most often employees joke about work. According to the survey, 39 % of respondents said that the subject of humor is usually professional duties of employees, relations with clients and partners. 3 % decide to joke about salaries and money, 2 % - about colleagues and leadership.

Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports: “ The average check in Russian restaurants and bars in January 2023 increased by 7 % compared to the same period last year and amounted to 1.3 thousand rubles. And in grocery supermarkets, it amounted to 631 rubles, showing an increase of 6 %, but there was a decrease in the number of purchases by 4 %, and the speed increased by only 2 %. Moreover, in restaurants and bars, the number of purchases increased by 8 %, and the turnover - by 15 %.

February 13 (2), 1769, the fabulist Ivan Krylov was born. Personal business Ivan Andreevich Krylov (1769–1844) was born in 1769 in Moscow. During the Pugachevsky uprising, his father, an army officer, was an assistant commandant of the Yitsky fortress. Shortly before the Cossacks of Pugachev besieged the fortress, he managed to send his wife and little son to Orenburg. The boy was driving on a cart, hiding in a large clay pot.

The study of scientists from the University of Emory showed that two widespread wild plants contain substances that suppress the ability of the COVID-19 virus to infect living cells. The work was the first large-scale screening of plant extracts for their effectiveness against the SARS-COV-2 virus.

It is natural for parents to take care of the health of their child, monitor his condition and consult a doctor in case of illness. But sometimes the mother, who assures the doctors that the child is seriously ill and needs constant care, drug support and procedures, is not healthy herself. Olga Yarmolovich’s mother had pronounced signs of a delegated Munchausen delegated syndrome - a rare state in which parents deliberately cause a disease in a child or invent them to seek medical help.

VTsIOM reports: “ The greatest public trust in Russia is enjoyed by central television (53 %). The second line with a small, but statistically significant margin from the leader, occupies local television: almost every second (47 %) trusts regional television channels. Approximately, the Russians trust the following media: news, analytical, official sites (35 %); central and regional press (33 %each); Telegram channels (31 %).

Komsomolskaya Pravda reports: “ On the eve of the day of all lovers, the KP.ru website found out where the Russians prefer to get acquainted. As it turned out, almost half of the surveyed (45 %) is specially not looking for love anywhere, but they are waiting for it to find them. 14 % prefer to get acquainted with new people through friends. 11 % say that they are looking (or even found) love at work. 7 % of Russians are trusted with dating sites.

Member of our project “After” journalist Yuri Saprykin - in an interview with Sota : “ Many, if not all, cultural and educational projects were aimed at an enlightened audience. We spoke mainly with people who gave Russian classics and listened to lectures about it. With those who did not do this, we did not learn how to interact, and Lotman, for example, was able to. From here comes a completely reasonable feeling of guilt that we did not do something or did something wrong.

Alpina Plisher Publishing House represents Olga Yarmolovich’s book “The Poison of Maternal Love. How my mother came up with illnesses to me. Personal story about Munchausen syndrome. " It is natural for parents to take care of the health of their child, monitor his condition and consult a doctor in case of illness. But sometimes the mother, who assures the doctors that the child is seriously ill and needs constant care, drug support and procedures, is not healthy herself.

Archaeologists in Utrera, not far from Seville in the south-west of Spain, discovered the remains of the XIV century synagogue , absorbed by the later reconstructions of the building. This is one of the five Spanish synagogues (two more in Toledo, one in Severe, one in Cordoba), which survived after the expulsion of the Jews in 1492.

RBC reports: “ According to the results of 2022, the natural decline in the population of Russia, that is, the excess of the number of dead over the number of births, amounted to 599.6 thousand people. This follows from the preliminary data of Rosstat. The result was 42.5 % lower than the loss of the pandemic 2021, which set an absolute record for the latest history of the country and reached 1.04 million people. It also turned out to be less than 2020 (702 thousand people).

The most interesting of our notes in the week: Director of the Military-Patriotic Cinema Support Fund Maxim Ksenzov shares plans : “We have a project for the development of the Fund, there we formulated the audit signs that we need to work with, divided them by age. When we declare selection, we set the focus of the film.