Aleksey Navalny, already in custody, continues to remain a headliner of a political agenda: the campaign around his figure is at full height. The authorities launched a prepared process in his respect from the summer on the case of insulting the veteran of the Great Patriotic War. Supporters of Navalny, in turn, arranged an action with flashlights on February 14, continuing in this way suspended rallies.

In the mid-90s, when the first secretary of the Russian Embassy in Beijing, I more than once participated in group discussions between Russian diplomats led by Igor Rogachev and Chinese political scientists. The discussions usually took place on the eve of the Russian-Chinese summites, and the Institute of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, the AOO China, arranged them.

A series of interviews "Open conversation" We bring to your attention a series of interviews with Russian philosophers and leading specialists from various scientific disciplines studying political life. In the format of conversations, intellectuals answer several questions, both purely academic and socially significant.

We all notice these objects and know exactly why they are here. They simultaneously merge with everyday space, because this is the usual part of the landscape for Russian roads, and grossly violate it - death suddenly sprouts in the center of life by grave wreaths. These wreaths and jewelry on the trees along the roads are called “Kenotafa” (from other Greek κενοτάφιον, from κενός-empty and τάφος-grave) and denote the place of the death of a car accident.

The opinions presented in the articles may not coincide with the position of the editors. We remind you of the " user agreement " and urge the commentators to behave within the framework of decency. The published (p.11) “New Gazeta” - without abbreviations, this is important! - The promised answer to the manifesto of Konstantin Bogomolov is reduced to only two words: "Okay, boomer." This is a reference to a famous meme and an open letter, which has already been signed by more than 1,200 people.

On February 3, the chief editor of the Mediazone Sergey Smirnov was convicted of 25 days of arrest - on the absurd, sucked from the finger. He was found guilty of the organization (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation) of an unauthorized action on January 23, on which he was not. “Organization” is a retweet of jokes about itself on Twitter, in this joke there were no calls to participate in protests.

On February 16, 1806, the “St. Petersburg Vedomosti” appeared an official relation about the general battle with the French, “in the continuation of which Russian troops ... showed new experiments of courage and immature.” She ended like this: "Almost until the very midnight they stood in mind the enemy, whom he had not dared to renew his attacks anymore." These lines, worthy of Borodin and Provishish-Eilau, described ...

In the capital of Tanzania, the Dodom recently, a press conference of the Minister of Health Dorothy Gwajima was held. The chief physician of Tanzania officially confirmed that this country with an almost 60 millionth population does not need vaccines against coronavirus, for which an acute struggle around the world has now unfolded and especially in Africa. Moreover, Guadjima refused even doses that can be obtained under the Covax vaccine distribution program for free.

In the spirit of time, after other activists, the Western zoo defenders called for a change in language. To abandon the metaphorical use of English words pig (“pig”), chicken (“chicken, chicken”), rat (“rat”), Snake (“snake”) and other animal names. Do not call them a cowardly, insidious, disgusting, prone to denunciations, or somehow a bad person.