Co-founder of the Vatfor project Sergei Poletaev writes in the publication “Russia in Global Affairs” : “The Kremlin’s scenario for the coming year could be this: maintaining the current intensity of fighting, slowly advancing in the Donbass and depleting Ukraine, demonstrating to the West the firmness of the Russian position and the futility of hopes for a military victory.

Bate College professor Tyler Austin Harper writes in The Atlantic about the humanities' line of defense in a world driven by market profit: “We must begin to defend the idea that the humanities have value regardless of their economic or political utility.

Political scientist Dmitry Mikhailichenko writes : “At the press conference, it became noticeable that the regional component, which usually boils down to requests and complaints, as well as the desire to lobby for projects of regional administrations <...>, has decreased significantly. In this logic, it was noticeable that the head of state did not really like this form of civic activity.

Economist Vladislav Inozemtsev (listed by the Ministry of Justice in the register of foreign agents) in The Moscow Times (listed by the Ministry of Justice in the register of foreign agents) explains why he does not see a “window of opportunity” for Ukraine before the presidential elections in Russia: “It doesn’t seem to me that in both Russia and Ukraine it makes sense to take any public opinion polls seriously now.

Kirill Safronov about the ups and downs of the rental of the last cartoon Hayao Miyazaki "Boy and Bird" The other day, the Lithuanian National Television and Radio Company (LRT), citing a cinema statement, reported that the new animated film of the Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki “Boy and Bird” in Lithuania will not be shown.

Former National Intelligence Council official Peter Schroeder writes in Foreign Affairs about the leading possible nuclear escalation scenario between Russia and the West: “In any case, tactical nuclear strikes will only harm the ability to conduct air defense. Such strikes will increase the West's desire to continue to help Ukraine at a time when that support is beginning to wane (Western politicians of all stripes want to make sure that atomic weapons are never used during the conflict).

Political activist and journalist Ekaterina Duntsova in an interview with the publication “Kholod” says : “So we are not doing all this to defeat Putin! <…> Well, am I now going to deceive myself and say that we have such [great] chances? Say: “Believe me, people, we will definitely win”? We must believe in this, we must strive for this, but at the same time we must understand that the support of the current head is really great, so we must avoid deep disappointment from the result.

President of the Russian Tennis Federation Shamil Tarpishchev in an interview with Kommersant says : “If we train our young shift in such conditions for several years, then from the point of view of functional training it will have no equal. As for technical equipment, we try to make sure that the training process corresponds to the psychotype of a particular player.

The Free Alliance of Euro-Asian Sociologists "FOCUS" (SAES FOCUS) published the results of a survey of Russians about their attitude towards the ban on abortion: “67% of Russians surveyed would not support a ban on abortion in Russia, 25% would support such a restriction. Another 8% found it difficult to answer or refused to answer the question. Men are more likely than women to support the ban on abortion in Russia: 28% versus 22%, respectively.

Kommersant FM columnist Dmitry Drize says : “The press conference of Vladimir Zelensky did not bring any sensations, although certain progress and signals can be discerned if desired. According to the President of Ukraine, the issue of negotiations with the Russian Federation is now irrelevant. Zelensky does not know when the fighting will end. This is how he answered the question of whether they could end in 2024. Meanwhile, the military asked to mobilize up to 500 thousand people.

in the Kommersant publication Journalist Yuri Barsukov writes : “The EU countries in the 12th package of sanctions decided to somehow revive the dying ceiling on prices for Russian oil and demonstrate the fight against the so-called gray tanker fleet. <…>. A year after the ceiling was introduced and about six months after it began to systematically demonstrate its ineffectiveness, European officials decided to limit sales of tankers from EU shipowners to Russian owners.

Russian Ambassador to the Republic of Korea Georgy Zinoviev in an interview with Kommersant says : “The Republic of Korea has fallen into the bad company of states unfriendly to Russia, contrary to the logic of developing good-neighborly bilateral ties and, as I see it, not of its own free will. Over the thirty-odd years that have passed since the establishment of diplomatic relations, there have been no political problems or irritants between Moscow and Seoul. <…>.

Political scientist Ekaterina Shulman (included by the Ministry of Justice in the register of foreign agents) on the YouTube channel “Living Nail” says : “I cannot help but note the successful meeting, the meeting of the initiative group to nominate an independent candidate, Ekaterina Duntsova, for the presidency of the Russian Federation. They gathered in Moscow. There were about 500 of them there.

Americanist Alexandra Filippenko in an interview with Irina Babloyan (included by the Ministry of Justice in the register of foreign agents) says : “There is an old joke about how an American worker goes to Soviet Russia and says: “I know that freedom of speech is a little difficult there, but I’ll write you a letter if anything happens.” If everything is okay, I will write to you in a blue pencil, and if everything is bad, I will write to you in a red pencil.” They receive a letter in blue

The Publishing House "New Literary Review" represents a new collected works of Henry Sapgira. The first volume is called "Voice". The new collected works of Henry Sapgira are an attempt not only to gather together most of what was written by a wonderful Russian poet and a prose writer of the second half of the 20th century, but also to create some integral image of this unique (even for this period of our literature) universal writer.