Few people know that in Udmurtia there are paganism and a strong, possibly mystical connection of people with nature. When they talk about pagan cultures in Russia, they mean Siberia and Altai. Shamanism, throat singing and bright rites of those places have long become a successful tourist brand known throughout the world. The public does not pay attention to the fact that traditional faith exists in other parts of Russia, much closer to the capitals.

Fire on the DEEPWATER HORIZON oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, 2010 Photo: archive.defense.gov Once the era called themselves beautiful words: revival, enlightenment, modern. After 1968, something changed and a “post-” particle entered the circulation. People began to talk about postmodern, post -industrialization and even post -truth: new times determined themselves in comparison with those when modernity or truth was available.

As soon as the next elections begin to loom on the horizon, a smoldering discussion about whether it is worth participating in them, each time it flashes in our expanses with such force, as if there were no twenty -five rounds. But today it’s not even election, we have a “popular vote”. The authorities invite Russian citizens to speak out about amendments to the Constitution. The constitution, of course, is an important document, no one argues.

Update . On November 17, the Hollywood classic Martin Scorsese turned 80 years old. The film critic Tom Sean, who teaches the history of the cinema at the University of New York, is convinced that Scorsese stands out among modern filmmakers, "that his career symbolizes tectonic shifts that have changed the cinematic environment over the past fifty years." In the book "Martin Scorsese.

The pop star in the political party in 2020 is a sensation. Domestic political culture, perhaps, is poor in plots, but this is not even a plot, it is a template. The show business in the broadest sense of this definition is closely intertwined with politics since time immemorial. Singers, poets, filmmakers, TV presenters have always been advanced somewhere, and who did not advance, he campaigned, and people who would not participate in anything at all, does not seem, in principle.

The first series of the video interview with Vladimir Putin was released on the same day when Sergey Shnurov joined the growth party. There are some problems with media planning, because both events clearly are points in one PR strategy-and interfere with each other, the cord clogs Putin. However, short series (first - 12 minutes) in the project “20 questions to Vladimir Putin” will still be guessed, so Putin should recoup.

It may seem to the layman that “British scientists” as always are engaged in nonsense, but science as such is based on the understanding of “nonsense” Sergey Karelov. Photo: from the archive of S.

Here is a very simple text that is not a philosophical - about the current state of world and Russian philosophy and how it came to it. 1. Philosophy is a rather strange specialty. Previously (until the 1820–1830s), this was the name of the whole theoretical science, including physics and chemistry (therefore, for example, in the United States, the degree of “Doctors of Philosophy” is still awarded through all science). Outside of its borders lay only medicine, law and theology.

American conservatives and European bureaucrats are seriously afraid that if the president of the United States becomes one of the leaders of the progressive wing of the Democrats, America can completely abandon claims to world leadership, and its younger allies will remain defenseless.