The telegram channel "Notes on the fence" writes : “The tale of the space superpower lasted 10 days. Finally, holy water and icons came in handy! Unfortunately, everything ended, as the enemies expected. Hopes crashed on the moonlit solid. Probably, because Gzhel and Khokhloma were not applied, as the ex-head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin proposed. However, it is too early to bury Moscow. The moon is continued by China and India - the allies in the BRICS.

Institute of Public Opinion is publicly the result of its survey: “41% of Russians said that they bought exotic fruits in the last three months. Among them: Mango (61%) avocado (57%) figs (32%) Feihoa (19%) Kosos (17%) Marakuya (16%) Lychi (15%) Physalis (8%) Papaya (8%) KUMKVAT (7%). "

Professor of Political Science from the University of Toronto Lucan Ahmad Way Writes in Foreign AFFAirs about the three components of the Soviet heritage, which allowed Vladimir Putin to strengthen his authoritarian regime: “Unlike communist China or Islamist Iran, Putin's Russia does not belong to the number of revolutionary regimes. The USSR was aspirated long ago , and the President of the Russian Federation came to power through the elections, and not through the violent struggle for power.

Journalist Katie Stallard Writes in The New Statesman about the economic damage that Ukraine suffered as a result of attacks from Russia: “More than 6 million Ukrainians left the country since the beginning of the fighting, most of them have been made by women and children. (Most of the husband of Chin aged 18 to 60 years can not leave the country). These 6 million includes about 2.8 million able -bodied women, according to a study conducted by economist Alexander Isakov.

Stanislav Andreichuk in the publication "Reforum" talks about the features of the elections this fall: “In Khakassia, where the very turbulent election campaign of the head of the region is now going on-I don’t remember such a seething from the late 90s-<...> the current head, communist Valentin Konovov (who in 2018 became the head of the will of the Kremlin), his opponent-the State Duma deputy Sergei Sokol, who went to the front and received the Order of Courage, deserved from the Kremlin’s

Literary critic Galina Yuzefovich writes : “Like all people in the world, I read a little the same Medinsky textbook. <...>. Honestly, I did not notice any special propaganda in it - propaganda still implies the presence of a single concept, relatively simple and clear thesis, which can be pulled through the entire text and reinforced with examples. In Medinsky, the concept changes every ten pages <...>.

Elena Osokina The publishing house "New Literary Review" represents the book of historian Elena Osokina "The Fate of Icon in the Country of Soviets. 1920–1930s. " The icon is the main character of this book - the center of attraction of the actions of the authorities, museum workers, merchants and buyers. One of the intriguing paradoxes of history is that the creators of the “non -market” Soviet economy made a considerable contribution to the development of the global market of icon painting.

The most interesting of our notes in the week: Historian Evgeny Dobrenko - about the appropriate analogies: “ If you look, in the beginning you have a revolution, the head of which the king himself is, that is, relatively speaking, Nicholas II in the first case, and in the second case Gorbachev. Then you have a second revolution with great hopes and failed, but only instead of Kerensky you have Yeltsin. And then you have a revolution in the final, which really sweeps the former country.

The Gothic cemetery was discovered in the landscape park in the north of Poland. To date, fifty cremation burials have been excavated, and this is only part of a large cemetery, which is believed to be near Hectar. Clay objects, brooches, amber and glass beads, as well as household utilitarian items, such as spinning and bone comb, are found in two types of burials: pit graves and urn burials. They date back to the 4th century AD.

Member of our project “After”, political analyst Vladimir Gelman commented on the collapse of the Luna-25 station: “Actually, the fact that Russia has lost its place in the“ High League ”of the global space powers (apparently, forever) was already known for a long time, and the numerous failures of Roscosmos in recent years have signaled this very clearly. In this case, not so much the causes of this phenomenon are important as Policy Implications.

A group of scientists, led by Professor Viktor Henderson , found that the risk of dementia increases by more than two times for people who had previously been diagnosed with depression, even if their depression was detected a decade ago. Researchers from the Pennsylvania and Orchus universities turned to the Danish National Register of Patients to analyze data on more than 1.4 million adult Danes from 1977 to 2018.

Associate Professor of the Higher School of Economics and a literature teacher at the Lyceum of the Higher School of Economics Mikhail Pavlovets in an interview with Pravmir says : “ In the updated educational standard, there is no such thing at all -“ read ”works of art. It says - “study”, “pass”. You can study without reading. We, studying Australia, do not go to Australia. Studying the production of hydrochloric acid, we do not make hydrochloric acid.

The telegram channel "Chinese threat" writes : “2023, not only for Russia, is difficult for Russia. <...> The worst result (among the countries of G7 -Polit.ru) can be shown by Germany, since it officially fell into a recession, and the total GDP growth per year can be from -0.3% to 1.3%. <...> The fall of the German economy is primarily associated with the deterioration of the performance of the exporters.

A participant in our project “After”, a TV presenter, literary critic Alexander Arkhangelsky on the YouTube channel “Looking for a way out” says : “ Is Medinsky’s textbook dangerous in itself? Not more dangerous than the life inside which such a textbook is produced. It seems to me that just the cart should not be ahead of the horse, but still from behind. This is a cart, not a horse. The horse sits in the Kremlin and drives itself. And a textbook is just one of the elements of this design.

Former manager of the backup (central) bank of India Raghuram Rajan writes in Project Syndicate about why political measures based on populism are attractive to the general masses of the population: “After the old orthodoxy was convicted of insolvency, and its supporters lost the confidence of society, all the doors opened before unorthodox approaches.