On Thursday, December 7, at the Moscow Club of Moscow, in the framework of public lectures, Polit.ru Kirill Safronov talked with the winner of the competition “Teachers of the Year of Moscow - 2023”, the laureate of the competition “Teacher of the Year of Russia 2023”, the teacher of the Russian language and literature of the ONO School “Nika” about the books that we all read in childhood, about which they still continue, and about how they continue about how they continue.

The Financial Times writes about the decision of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro to annex the Essequibo region: “The explanation for Nicolas Maduro’s sudden decision to take such a step and use a territorial claim, which everyone had forgotten about, to justify his actions, lies in the plane of domestic politics. Since plunging the country's economy into crisis, repressing dissent and provoking the emigration of more than a fifth of the population, he remains deeply unpopular as president.

Johns Hopkins University international relations professor Henry Farrell writes in The Economist about the theoretical and historical nature of the rift that has engulfed the AI ​​community: “Two centuries ago, Henri Saint-Simon, a French utopian thinker, proposed the creation of a new religion, consisting of the worship of the god-like force of progress, where the role of the main saint would belong to Isaac Newton.

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Journalist Helen Andrews writes in The American Conservative about American international policy to protect the rights of gay minorities: “When Hillary Clinton gave her speech in Geneva, she was surrounded by a motley crew of gay activists from all over the world - Malawi, Lithuania, the Philippines, Moldova and Jamaica. One of them was from Ukraine.

Georgetown University research fellow Paul Pillar writes in Responsible Statecraft that the destruction of Hamas is not Israel's only goal in the war: “The Israeli operation against Hamas most likely has another goal. Almost two months after the start of the war, there is growing evidence that Israel is carrying out nothing less than ethnic cleansing against Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip. Look at the scale of the Israeli army's indiscriminate attacks.

Street gang researcher Svetlana Stevenson comments in the publication “Cold” on the series “The Boy’s Word”: “The series immerses the viewer in the half-forgotten, and unknown to most viewers, life of a Soviet city in the 1980s. It well conveys the miserable Soviet life, where everything is in short supply, where boiled sausage proudly flaunts on the table and where the loss of a fur hat turns into a real tragedy <…>.

The International Union of Nature Protection changed the status of Saigak in the International Red Book. Until recently, Saigak was one of the species “on the verge of disappearance”, but now the experts admitted that his position has improved, and Saigak fell into a list of species “in a state close to the threatened”. By the 1980s, the number of saigas has decreased significantly, but in the 1990–2000s, the extinction of Saigaks acquired a catastrophic scale.

Political scientist Alexey Makarkin writes : “Consensus (conditionally “normative”) was formalized immediately after the start of the SVO and is associated with its support. <…> “United Russia”, as the party in power, by definition, fully and completely supports the government. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation recalls that it has historically advocated the restoration of the USSR.

in the publication “Terta” Criminologist, specialist in serial and mass murders Egor Denisov writes : “Such crimes should be characterized not as a kind of mass murder in the classical sense, but as an extended suicide. Mass murders are usually committed by individuals with psychopathology, including narcissism. One of the motives for such crimes is the desire for self-affirmation. You may have noticed that some mass murderers recorded some statements and wrote posts.

Pianist Denis Matsuev in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta says : “I’ve been in China for 25 years: I visited there for the first time back in 1998, after winning the Tchaikovsky Competition, and all this time I’ve been watching what’s happening there.

Historian and journalist Robert Garayev, who published the book “The Boy’s Word. Blood on the Asphalt" tells about the criminal Tatarstan of the 80s and the series of the same name: “My story <...> is described in the film (Garaev served as the prototype for the main character Andrei “Coat” - Polit.Ru), and at that time it was typical for boys in Kazan. I ended up in a gang because they were extorting money from me, and I was looking for protection.

in the RTVI publication An expert on the post-Soviet space, Kirill Krivosheev, writes : “To decide in 2023 on something that was too risky in 2021 will be not just dangerous for Moscow, but downright suicidal. In the current conditions, only someone who shows himself to be no less pro-Western than the current government, but at the same time more competent, can speak out against Pashinyan.

Research professor at the Faculty of Law of the National Research University Higher School of Economics Leonid Syukiyainen in an interview with Fedor Lukyanov, a participant in our “After” project, says : “We must not forget that, after all, the individual is at the center of the Western, European, liberal idea of ​​human rights. This is an individual right first and foremost. The Chinese version, as we have just heard it, still emphasizes something else, and this is a serious difference.

in The Moscow Times (included in the register of foreign agents by the Ministry of Justice) Economist Vladislav Inozemtsev (included by the Ministry of Justice in the register of foreign agents) writes : “The events of December 1993 are a perfect example of the fact that the “self-identification” of politicians is in most cases an outright lie. Thirty years ago, Russian “democrats” did everything necessary to ensure not the triumph of democracy, but the perpetuation of their own power.