News of other worlds. Issue 60 1. A group of American scientists during a psychological experiment found that, having looked at the images of superheroes, people find more sense in life and more willingly help others. So if you want someone to help you, unobtrusively show him a poster with Superman. Just keep in mind that this effect is called “priming”, and in the course of recent checks, almost all experiments demonstrating the effect of priming were not confirmed.

The US administration archives do not have detailed records of meetings of the presidents of the United States and Russia - Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. This is with reference to American officials claims The Washington Post. According to the publication, Trump ordered to withdraw the records of conversations with the Russian president that his translators made, and demanded that they do not transmit to anyone he heard in the administration.

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About the mechanism of transformation of innocent people into criminals - under Stalin today “The Bronnikova Case” is a book-investigation by Polina Vakhtina, Natalia Gromova and Tatyana Pozdnyakova, was written on the basis of a five-volume investigation of 1932 “On the counter-revolutionary organization of fascist youth circles and anti-Soviet salons”.

On Sunday, January 13, the extreme right -right party "National Association" held a congress in Paris, at which it announced the beginning of the campaign for the election in the European Parliament. Twelve people were presented to the congress as candidates. At the head of the list, 23-year-old Zordan Bardell, leader of the party department in the capital's region Il de Franca.

Panos Kammenos at a conference in Moscow In Greece, the coalition government broke up. In protest against an agreement with Macedonia, the Minister of Defense, the leader of the Right Party "Independent Greeks" Panos Cammenos, resigned the name of this country. He also stated that six more ministers from his party would leave his posts.

In 2016, the Radio Liberty correspondent managed to drive at the places of mining mammoths. These were rare shots of barbaric hunting for the remains of prehistoric animals in Yakutia. Today we returned to this topic, because the situation has become even worse.

News of other worlds. Issue 60 1. A group of American scientists during a psychological experiment found that, having looked at the images of superheroes, people find more sense in life and more willingly help others. So if you want someone to help you, unobtrusively show him a poster with Superman. Just keep in mind that this effect is called “priming”, and in the course of recent checks, almost all experiments demonstrating the effect of priming were not confirmed.

In the city of Amursk, the Khabarovsk Territory on January 13, Viktor Toroptsev, detained the day before, was released the day before. Earlier, he published a video of the funeral of criminal authority Yuri Zarubin. The blogger reported this on his page in the VKontakte social network. “I was released today, apparently because of a large public resonance,” he wrote.

Armed formations of "Syrian democratic forces" Representatives of the opposition "Syrian democratic forces" announced the detention in the north of Syria of four suspects of terrorism, two of which are Russian citizens. Their names are called - Uttaev and Mohammed Javad Khan. What kind of group do they belong to - the SDS report is not said. It is only specified that they managed to detain them thanks to the "long and accurate tracking" of their actions.

As a digital dictatorship with a system of total surveillance and social rating of citizens is being built in China, the question arises - is something like that in Russia possible? What carries for ordinary citizens the "Yarovaya Law" and the creation of a digital profile? Who today owns our personal data, and how do they use it? Guests: Ivan Fitin, founder and director of ANO "Infoculture" and Arthur Khachuyan, general director of SocialDatahub.

US Ambassador Richard Grenell sent a number of German companies participating in the implementation of the Northern Stream -2 gas pipeline project, letters with a warning about the possibility of introducing US sanctions against them.

Bust of the bureaucrat chief, blinded by Nikolai Shulyaev The school teacher Nikolai Shulyaev in Soviet times lived in Kazakhstan and taught Russian language and literature. After the collapse of the USSR, he moved to Mordovia, got a job at the electric lamp factory, began to get carried away with sculpture and UFO search. The film by Alexei Evstigneev. ​ Monologue Nikolai Shulyaev He lived in an era of change, the country collapsed, and there was nothing to do with anyone.

The suspension of the work of the maternity hospital was reported to the suspension of the work the day before the doors were sealed. In 2018, the maternity hospital accepted 4 thousand women in labor, and now pregnant women are forced to travel to other areas. The reason for the closure is the conclusion of Rospotrebnadzor about the ventilation malfunction. Deputies of the local council believe that the maternity hospital will be liquidated in the interests of the construction mafia

In St. Petersburg, the historical quarter was again at risk of demolition - these are five or even seven houses on a trolley street. A year ago, officials and city defenders agreed to save these buildings, but today the threat of their demolition was even more real than before. The city defenders began to sound the alarm in the last days of December, having discovered that the passing part was fenced before the problem quarter.