My immersion in the history of the Afghan war began with this album. In June last year, I was invited to the closure of the exhibition dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan, which worked in the Kotlas Museum of Local Lore. Fifty -year -old men, former soldiers of that war, were sitting at a common table. And I felt that there was a special connection between them, brotherhood.

What is the intrigue with Putin and genetics - everyone understands about. Two weeks ago, the Russian BBC Russian service said that Rosneft and the children's endocrinologist Maria Vorontsova will take up the “accelerated development of genetic technologies” so that by 2027 Russia became the world leader in this direction. Maria Vorontsova is one of the two (the second - the leading “Innopractic” Katerina Tikhonov Foundation) women, whom some media call “the alleged daughter of Vladimir Putin”.

Donald Trump. Photo: Shealah Craighead / White House / Flickr.com This question is largely similar to the classic unrequited “How long have you stopped drinking cognac in the morning?” And for starters, we need to separate several indicators at once, far from always interconnected. More precisely, they are connected in the article by Ivan Lyubimov, which I will try to comment a bit. However, this article is only a good reason for discussion. So, what indicators are we talking about?

Sunday videos, on which Alexander Lukashenko wanders with a gun in his hands in his palace and calls the security forces “handsome” (stormy applause), is easiest to explain the undoubted insanity of the Belarusian dictator. However, do not underestimate the power of evil: ridiculous gestures do not make the sadist driven into the corner of the sadist less dangerous - rather, on the contrary.

Recovered from the Covid-19 around the world there are already more than 1.6 million people. However, the victory over coronavirus can only be the first of many fights for their health, which will now be forced to lead ill, reports Bloomberg. Some former patients complain of fatigue, shortness of breath and pain in the body months after infection. Some studies (small in sample) conducted in Hong Kong and Chinese Jun show that lungs, heart and liver begin to function worse in the ill.

The book "Relations that work. The leadership for couples, where both partners make a career ” (enters the publishing house“ Mann, Ivanov and Ferber ”) is an attempt to comprehend the marriage in terms of professional priorities. Its author Jennifer Petrilieri, a specialist in organizational behavior and an Insead business school professor, conducted a deep interview with 113 working pairs of 32 countries.

We publish an excerpt from the book of philosopher Grigory Yudin “Public opinion, or power of numbers” , dedicated to what view of democracy is behind polls of public opinion. The text is provided by the EUSPB Publishing House . “The term“ democratization ”can mislead. The demos itself as a shapeless mass never “rules” large unions, it is controlled by them.

The European Union slowly but correctly returns to a pre -quarantine life. Governments take off restrictions on moving and step by step begin to open public institutions. Only the return promises to be difficult - during this time the sector of the economy has undergone serious changes. It is no secret that one of the most affected industries due to coronavirus-tourism-was one of the most profitable for the EU countries.

The amendments to the electoral legislation adopted this week create a lot of new opportunities for falsifications and cut off from participation in the elections of political activists. And the opposition have already gone to the fight! But for now, according to tradition, they are fighting with each other Vyacheslav Volodin / Kremlin.ru I will safely undertake to say that the most adequate deputy in the current composition of the State Duma is Vladimir Zhirinovsky.

Countries gradually weaken quarantine measures , the careful return of employees to workspace begins (although some employers, for example, Twitter, allowed their employees “remotes forever”). There are non -reasonable fears of a new wave of infection , and everyone understands that life at any workplace (except for the home) will no longer be the same.