Neil Harbisson. Photo: Ints Kalnins / Reuters Patrick Kramer sticks the needle into the visitor’s hand and inserts a microchip the size of a rice grain under his skin. “Well, that's it, now you are a cyborg,” he says, and clings to the wound between the index and thumb Guillermo Jeronimo. This 34-year-old Brazilian will use the chip-similar to what is implanted by millions of pets and livestock around the world-to open the doors as a digital business card.

Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko. Photo: Dmitri Lovetsky / Reuters Among experts, it is customary to seek a similarity between the current situation in Russia and the certain moments of the Soviet or even imperial past. But there are parallels and closer, especially if we talk about the domestic political situation. Today can be compared with the beginning of the previous presidential term by Vladimir Putin.

Recently, a new meme has appeared in the United States - "This is my son." The mother of the former military Peter Henson published on Twitter his photo, saying that he was afraid to go on dates due to the threat of accusations of harassment. All this is due to the fault of the "radical feminists", supposedly threatening men. The post quickly became an object for parodies-with images from Donald Trump Jr. to the Bob span, square pants. The young man eventually joked, publishing a refutation.

The draft government decree, developed by the Ministry of Transport and involving the transfer of all servers and databases on the reservation and sale of air tickets to Russia to the country, the carriers did not like it. New requirements will hurt the market, warned the general director of the Siberia Airlines Vladimir Polotkov in a letter addressed to the head of the Association of Air Transport operators Vladimir Tasun.

The World Bank for the first time recalculated for 157 countries the human capital index (ICHK). The first ten included Singapore, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Finland, Ireland, Australia, Sweden, the Netherlands and Canada. The value of human capital in these countries varies from 0.8 to 0.88 points and depends on the level of education and healthcare. In theory, the country's economy, in which the newborn today is provided with this in full, is gaining 1 point.