George Mason University professor Joseph Nye and Virginia Tech doctoral student Maria Snegovaya (who is listed as a foreign agent by the Justice Department) write in Foreign Policy about how the sanctions imposed against Iran in the early 2010s differ from those imposed against Russia: “An attempt to reduce the amount of cash in the Kremlin’s hands can lead to success, as was the case with Iran.

Writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya in an interview with Novaya Gazeta says : “I personally don’t feel any responsibility, because I was always aware of this and always, to the best of my ability, in my personal life, held certain positions and never left them. The power is not mine. It’s hard for me to blame the circle of people in which I lived, whom I loved, with whom we realized together and tried to clarify this situation for ourselves - that’s all we could do.

An unexpected guest was discovered on the island of Green Island off the coast of the Australian state of Queensland. Nicobar, or a grind, dove, which lives a thousand kilometers from these places, flew there. The Nicobar Griviste Dove ( Caloenas Nicobarica ) lives on the islands of the Indian Ocean, preferring small uninhabited islands. The eastern zones of his range fall on the new Guinea and the Solomon Island.

Political scientist Dmitry Mikhailichenko comments on the disappearance of Bashkir opposition telegram channels: “In Bashkiria, several opposition telegram channels were deleted at once: such an “information policy” could be called the dream of many governors.

The publishing house "New Literary Review" represents the book "Soviet Twenties. Art, architecture, photography, cinema ” / Alexey Bobrikov, Ivan Sablin, Andrey Fomenko, Darina Polikarpova; Ed. A. Fomenko. The Soviet art of the 1920s, about which many scientific and popular science works were written, is often perceived as a single aesthetic direction, inspired by the idea of ​​building a new socialist culture.

in The Moscow Times Journalist and writer Valery Panyushkin writes : “The only thing more absurd than demonstrations against anti-Semitism in France would be similar demonstrations in Israel. <…>. The demonstrators are led by the very French elite: former President Nicolas Sarkozy, former President Francois Hollande, current Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne - it seemed to them that there could not be a year since 1968, since the time of the Sorbonne barricades in France <...

Physicists have developed a technique based on red and green lasers, which allows to quickly and contactlessly measure the thermal conductivity of materials, the press service of the Russian Scientific Fund reports. This characteristic is important because overheating of electronic components of devices such as lasers and detectors can disable them.

Director of the Institute of Modern States, Associate Professor at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation Alexey Martynov writes : “The President of Kazakhstan, in an oriental way, subtly drew the public’s attention to the fact that when the Russian President’s plane landed in Astana, a Crescent Moon surrounded by bright stars appeared in a perfectly clear sky. Tokayev pointed out to everyone that this was a good sign.

Looking at the pictures from automatic cameras installed in the forests in the north of New Guinea, the scientists saw Atenboro's Proekhid ( Zaglossus Attenboroughhi ) - a species that was previously known for the only copy caught in 1961. The hedgehog reminiscent refers to the oviparous mammal, her close relatives are Australian plasticos and echidna, as well as two more types of prohibits living on New Guinea: Brighton Prokhidna Probena.

Dmitry Vdovin originally from the city of Kolomna of the Moscow province, his father was a cart, and according to other sources - a small one. He graduated from a four -class city school. At 21, in 1904, he entered the army as a clerk, served until 1906. Then he worked as a seller in a shop belonging to his brother. In 1910 he married, he had three children: Eugene (1911), love (1912, for her husband - Lozovskaya), Vsevolod (1918). Since 1912-the owner of the store of the dishwasher.

Political strategist Konstantin Kalachev writes : “Since early morning, questions have been pouring in about the upcoming presidential elections. Journalists are especially interested in whether a truck loaded with gingerbread will overturn on Pension Street before March 2024? We are especially interested in goodies for working pensioners. Like elections are a distribution of carrots and elephants. Elections are a civic duty. No, it won't turn over!

The most interesting of our notes in the week : Politician Boris Vishnevsky - about the reasons for the outbreak of anti -Semitism in Russia: “Putin is trying to redirect the hostility of the Muslim world (including Russian Muslims) from the actual culprit of the problems of the residents of Gaza (dictatorial regime of Hamas and his patron saint of Tehran) to the“ collective West ”, including the United States and Israel.

VTsIOM Director for Strategic Development Stepan Lvov writes : “The record share of Russians recorded this year who declare the presence of an internal locus of control (i.e., they believe that well-being depends on the efforts of the individual himself, and not the state or social structure) gives reason to think about why this happened and how it influences on society as a whole. On the one hand, paternalism, for which Russians have been accused for the last three decades, is rapidly eroding.

A participant in our “After” project, political scientist Mikhail Vinogradov writes : “It is not true that the agenda does not discuss the issue of who is to blame for the fact that everything did not go entirely according to plan. On the contrary, this issue is the content of the agenda. And then there is a selection of possible nominees and optimal forms of tribute to them.

The Economist writes about the surge in gang violence in Sweden: “For many years Sweden has suffered from high levels of violence, with gangs playing a major role, but the last two years have seen an unprecedented increase in attacks and murders. In the first 10 months, there were 324 shootings, of which 48 resulted in death. The number of crimes involving firearms in Sweden is several times higher than in neighboring countries.