The European Parliament deputy Andris Cubilyus in an interview with New Gazeta. Europe ” discusses the future expansion of the EU: “I have a very simple vision of this issue. For countries that are located on a geographical European continent, such as Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia and even Belarus, I see all the prospects for joining the EU in the coming decades. Russia is another question, and the problem is not that it poses a threat, but that it is too big.

Political scientist Vyacheslav Morozov in an interview with the project "after. Media" talks about the significance of the new concept of foreign policy of the Russian Federation: “To the lesser extent, this document is determining for the actual foreign policy of Russia. Because making decisions, especially foreign policy, is centralized. It must be borne in mind that in the 1990s the policy of Russia was chaotic <...>.

Professor Natalya Zubarevich in an interview with YouTube -channel “ Bild in Russian” says : “We get through a“ parallel import ”a lot of all kinds of consumer goods, all streams are debugged, logistics is worked out. Now they will be replayed, since Kazakhstan is somewhat tightened by control over the movement of transit. Well, they will find other ways, it will simply be more expensive. Everyone already writes about this that the refrigerators will rise in price, not only them.

Igor Danilevsky HSE For the project “After”, Dmitry Itskovich and Ivan Davydov talked with historian Igor Danilevsky - why it is not worth always looking into the past, about what prevents the normal civil society from being formed, and about what Russia would like to see. Eternal return The question of the time I would like to live in ... Once my mother asked me such a question, and I said that I want to live in my time, because everything that I study in the past is not inspired, frankly.

Doctor of Philosophy, Analyst Dmitry Mikhailichenko writes : “All the leaders of the five republics of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan) arrived at the Victory Parade in Moscow. It seems that they had no other choice: not only because of the position of Moscow, but also because of the position of Beijing.

Journalist Maxim Trustlyubov writes about how the day of memory has turned into a holiday: “The state can arrange as many holidays and parades, but it is a void that will never be filled with content. A separate conversation, why <...> The day of May 9 for some time was such a triumph. Probably because the authorities made a substitution, and the society accepted it <...>. The wake, trim is also, of course, a celebration, but people do not forget why they gathered.

Researcher of historical memory, Nikolai Epple, gave a lecture in the Turgenev Library in Paris about the understanding of guilt and responsibility in the Russian public sphere: “Far from always the difficult past ends with the tribunals. Even where the courts occur, there are only a few of those who should be condemned.

The new genus of the South American butterflies, highlighted by entomologists, was called Saurona - in honor of the dark Lord of Sauron from the famous Tolkien trilogy "The Lord of the Rings".

The focus is the application for the updated economic leadership of the States, the weakening of the role of the dollar in the world economy, the problems of China’s hegemony, the study of the prospects for achieving peace in Ukraine and the discussion of the colonial discourse of European elites New world order The West turns globalization (Branco Milanovich , The Globalist ) The West refuses the project of globalization due to large costs China and other Asian countries won from globalization,

The center of Charles the Great in Aachen acquired a coin of the VIII century , on which the names of Karl and his wife of the pharanda were written. This is the first example of mentioning on the coin of the Caroling dynasty not only the queen, but also any woman, with the exception of the Virgin Mary. Thara was born around 765 in the family of a powerful East Frankish Count Rudolph.

Soviet and Russian writer Alexander Prokhanov writes in the publication Tomorrow: “The Russian government complains that it is constantly being deceived. Gorbachev united Germany and eliminated the Warsaw pact, mercilessly destroying all pro -Soviet, pro -Russian forces in Eastern Europe. He was promised that the countries of Eastern Europe would never join NATO. They entered. And we were deceived.

The participant of our project “After”, the editor -in -chief of the journal “Russia in Global Policy” Fedor Lukyanov says : "Russia" metropolitan "is trying as much as possible to live, as it had lived before. And, I must say, it seems to me that the leadership of the country encourages it in this - that is, there is no task, figuratively expressing, put everyone under the gun. Is it right or not is the next question.

Political scientist, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor of the Faculty of Political Sciences EU SPbi Grigory Golosov writes : “I got acquainted with the biography of the Kumarass of Kamaraj, Indian politics, from 1954 to 1963. He served as the prime minister of one of the most important states (Madras / Tamil Mad) and one of the Inc leaders, who played a decisive role in the mid-60s that at the head of the Indian government was first Shastri, and then I.

Anthropologist Alexander Arkhipov in an interview with the Vitrust publication argues : “When the“ Immortal Regiment ”just appeared, this action was based on a pretty and popular idea that veterans are leaving and we must maintain the memory of those who fought. Not in the sense that “we can repeat”, but in the sense that people who have undergone different deprivations go away, and we lose touch with those times.

The former municipal deputy of Moscow and the author of the podcast “This Basis” Alexander Zamyatin criticizes the idea of ​​uniting the opposition in Russia in the journal “Cold”: “Arguments in favor of unification are two different types: moral and political.