Telegram channel “Chinese threat” writes : “Have you gotten better, how has the ruble exchange rate been since the beginning of the year? Get out of the habit. There are all the prerequisites that the ruble will begin to weaken in the near future, as it will run out of support from the Ministry of Finance. The Ministry of Anton Siluanov will temporarily stop selling yuan from the National Welfare Fund, which will reduce part of the currency supply on the market.

In 2013, oncilla ( Leopardus Tigrinus ) - the view of a small spotted cat from South America - was divided into two types: northern ( Leopardus Tigrinus ) and Southern Oncillus (Leopardus G Uttulus). A new study conducted by Brazilian biologists from the University of Maranyan shows that the oncillas actually represent not two, but three separate species.

Sociologist and philosopher Grigory Yudin (included by the Ministry of Justice in the register of foreign agents) on the youtube channel on the youtube channel “Khodorkovsky LIVE” (Mikhail Khodorkovsky is included in the register of foreign agents by the Ministry of Justice) says : “I would like to be very careful with the word ‘society’.

Journalist Bret Stephens writes in The New York Times that it is futile to look to the past to justify the existence of the state: “It is strange, to say the least, that the ethnic group most often accused of settler colonialism today clearly traces the origins of its language, culture and religion to the very same places from which it was long ago expelled, and now inhabits this territory and controls it.

in the Novaya Gazeta publication Journalist Anton Oreh writes : “Yes, the fight against doping has become both a business and part of politics. But there are few places where sport is as important a part of politics as it is here in Russia. Now our athletes are under sanctions, the majority are content with competitions within the country, and we see how interest in sports has fallen. Because for us it has always been like a struggle of “ours” against “not ours”.

in The Moscow Times (listed by the Ministry of Justice in the register of foreign agents) Economist Vladislav Inozemtsev (listed by the Ministry of Justice in the register of foreign agents) writes : “In <...> China, not everything is fine. Economic growth is slowing, with the World Bank predicting 4.5% this year and just 4.3% next year. The budgetary problems of both central and regional governments are growing: regional debts alone recently exceeded 80% of GDP.

Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Montreal (Canada) Yakov Rabkin writes in the publication “Russia in Global Affairs” : “Western countries question the decision of the UN's highest court and continue to arm Israel while thousands of Palestinians die from bombing, shelling, hunger and cold.

Media manager Lev Gershenzon (included by the Ministry of Justice in the register of foreign agents) on the Sapere Aude youtube channel.

Journalist Martin Wolf writes in The Financial Times about the critical situation of trust in government in the UK: “Only around 39% of Britons trusted the government in 2021, according to an OECD opinion poll. This is close to the American level of trust - 31% and slightly higher than the Italian level - 35%. But this is much lower than in Switzerland - 84%, Finland - 77%, Sweden - 69% and Germany - 61%.

Political scientist Sergei Karaganov writes : “A new, but long-predicted situation dictates to us and calls us to return to our “home”, to Siberia, from a more than three-hundred-year European journey that gave a lot, but a long time ago, a century ago, and has exhausted its usefulness. <…> The Mongols plundered, but also contributed to development. <…> Apparently, from the empire of Genghis Khan we also inherited our, now almost unique, cultural, national and religious openness.

Director of the Safe Internet League Ekaterina Mizulina explains why the state prohibits VPN services: “I use this: proxies, anonymizers, VPN services. This cannot be blocked completely. Each of you and I can create our own proxy at home, and no one will see it. There is nothing particularly difficult here for a person with knowledge. And we use this too. Accordingly, this cannot be limited 100%. <…> Just physically.

Publicist Anatoly Nesmiyan writes : “Putin will deliver a message to the Federal Assembly between February 23 and March 8. This was stated in the Kremlin. Obviously, the message will have a “two in one” format - the routine “blah blah blah” and at the same time the “election program”. The combination of two fundamentally different formats only shows that Putin has no program. The Address is an annual event that should provide guidance for the current year.

Retired Australian Army Major General Mike Ryan writes in Foreign Affairs that Ukraine could soon be defeated: “The differences in the approach to combat between Russia and Ukraine are visible in the approach to innovation. Ukraine is better at tactical adaptation: training and improving skills and technologies on the battlefield. Russia is better at strategic adaptation, or learning and adaptation, that influences national and military policy making.

Journalist Howard Chua-Eoan writes in Bloomberg about an interesting detail in the biography of General Valery Zaluzhny: “There was a time when Zelensky and Zaluzhny could have taken a humorous approach to the current situation. Everyone knows that the president was one of the most successful comedians in Ukraine, who managed to amass a good fortune, including offshore accounts in Cyprus, which Simon Schuster, my former colleague at Time magazine, mentions in his new book.

Journalist David Ignatius writes in The Washington Post that Ukraine needs supplies not of heavy equipment and weapons, but of high-tech weapons to compensate for losses in the Armed Forces of Ukraine: “Ukraine, as I wrote after visiting Kyiv in October, is exhausted by the conflict and is slowly bleeding. Zaluzhny indirectly acknowledges war fatigue when he asks for UAVs in order to “reduce casualties... reduce the involvement of traditional means of destruction...