How do Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump cope with pandemia? Are there any similarities in their approaches, and what are the differences? And how effective are their strategies? Let's try to speculate. Let's start with the difference in the conditions in which each of them has to work. Trump is under close attention, each of its steps falls into the light of sofitis, each word and action are analyzed, criticized or supported. What Putin does - no one knows.

More than half of the male Chinese smoke. According to WHO , about a third of cigarettes on the planet is smoked in China. The harm of smoking, it seems, is no longer disputed by anyone and nowhere, it remains the main of the preventive causes of mortality in the world, but the Greek cardiologist Konstantino Farsalinos noticed one very strange feature: a very small part of the crown -cords - smokers.

By the end of the last week, Russia confidently overcame the 10,000th line of daily incidence of Covid-19. Back in mid -March, during the adoption of the first major federal measures, any inconsistencies of official distribution statistics with reality were simply explained by the subjectivity of eyewitnesses and misconceptions of critics.

Alexander Petrikov specifically for "Kashin" An old, with almost twenty years of experience, a comrade tends me on a social network; Our long-established relationships allow the most unacceptable formulations from the universal human point of view-well, how in the film “Gran Torino” the hero of Clint Eastwood leads the boy to a familiar hairdresser to show the master class of real male communication when old friends call each other the last words and laugh joyfully.

For the artist Valentina Sidorenko, archival photography was the only opportunity to break through to loved ones and become related to them My family has always been one: relatives on the line of my father and mother gathered together at weddings, celebrated birthdays, celebrated the New Year. This connection began to break up in the mid-1990s, when I was only born. The relatives were dying, and I did not have time to recognize them, talk with them, to love them.

At the end of March, Joe Biden was accused of sexual harassment. The history of thirty years ago arose very on time - almost immediately after the Democratic Party finally united around his candidacy for the 2020 elections. The politician himself, as usual, denies all the accusations, and almost all authoritative democrats have embarked on his side. Total support of the party, as well as the reputation of the defender of women's rights, so far help him to maintain a positive image.

The previous article was described by Russian great -power chauvinism and patriotic mobilization through the prism of competition of memes or mental viruses. According to the theory of Richard Dokinza, any beliefs and representations (memes) are strictly competing with each other and in the process of natural selection develop certain properties that allow them to win other beliefs in the competitive struggle, but often are harmful to their carriers (people).