The other day it became known that the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation for 2019 paid more than a billion rubles in cases won in the European Court of Human Rights. Republic talked with Vitaly Kulapov , Ph.D., a lawyer and special adviser to the Pen & Paper Bar Association for Protection of Rights in the ECHR.

History loves to repeat himself, at least twice. According to legend, the Nikolaev railway from Moscow to St. Petersburg was built as it was drawn by Emperor Nicholas I: led a straight line, stumbled upon his own finger-and the famous bend appeared in the area of ​​the Mstinsky bridge. The legends have not yet composed the legends about the Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin, but he will most likely leave his name on the map of Russia.

The other day it became known that the Ministry of Education refused to introduce a mandatory exam in a foreign language in 2022. This solution most likely has different reasons. First of all, the Russian school system is not ready to conduct an exam in a foreign language in two years. This is the result of a serious drawback in the Russian teacher’s corps of well -trained foreign language teachers.

This resembled dejavu - over the past week of July, the country seemed to return to early March. Then, as we recall, Russia faced the next “ideal storm”: a sharp and largely man -made national currency devaluation and the global spread of coronavirus infection, to which at first the Russian authorities belonged with carelessness. The authorities took half -hearted and untimely measures.

Suppose Lukashenko loses the elections, or canceling them, or takes them from the elections at the last moment Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, or even announces his victory, calling the unknown from which ceiling the numbers taken - in any case, the end of this week in Minsk and other Belarusian cities promises to be as intense as possible, and no one can vore that the Lukashenkovsky regime will be able to maintain itself in an unchanged form.

The Rybinsk reservoir was planned as the largest artificial lake in the world. During his education, since 1937-1940, thousands of families were forced to leave their native lands. Photographer Daria Nazarova collected memories of how this relocation was happening The past of my family is connected with the places where the Rybinsk reservoir is now located. From 1937 to 1941, more than 130 thousand people were forced to leave their lands.

Are there contradictions in reality itself - or only in our ideas about it? Dialectics claim the first. Charles Popper criticizing them is the second. Artemy Magun explains why the dialectics are right, Popper is mistaken, and reality is contradictory. Karl Popper, 1990. Photo: Lucinda Douglas-Menzies / Wikimedia Commons A previous article, dedicated to the dialectics of capitalism and socialism in Russia and the USA of the last 50 years, is now in the public domain.