2021 in Russia turned out to be rich in historical policy: laws governing the memory of the events of the past were adopted, the commission “On historical education” was created, Vladimir Putin wrote an article on the history of Ukraine. We just learned from the president that there are different versions of the death of Metropolitan Philip (in 1569). The Investigative Committee calls the college director for a conversation about the characteristics of Alexander Nevsky.

The Canadian company-operator of the Kumtor gold-bearing deposit in Kyrgyzstan won a lawsuit against the Kyrgyz authorities in the New York court, which denounced an agreement with it, introducing the external administration on the mine. How will this resonance story end and what lessons follow it? Sadyr Zhaparov.

Kurai is an ancient wind instrument that is very similar to a flute. There was a lot of disputes - the Bashkir or Tatar invention, but a few years ago they put an end to the discussion - the Bashkortostan government received a patent for it as a “musical instrument of the Bashkir people”. Kurai in Bashkiria can be heard on all holidays. Basically, men play in Kurai - this is a tradition, but more and more often you can see girls.

In the famous quarter of the red lanterns of Amsterdam, you will not see the usual, a well -being. Most of all, the absence of crowds on narrow streets rejoice at food prisoners who now do not have to maneuver, risking health. Amsterdam became a tourist attraction long before the appearance of the word "tourist". The Pilgrims reached out in 1345 in one of the Amsterdam churches to look at the ward, over which the time was allegedly not imperious.

Alexander Petrikov specifically for "Kashin" Two weeks later, Russia will choose the State Duma - a caricatured parliament, invented in 1993 as the weakest, obviously not having any political capabilities part of the state system.

Konstantin Makovsky. "Popular walking during Shrovetide on Admiralty Square in St. Petersburg", 1869 It is difficult to determine how society lived in those ancient centuries when there were no professional sociological research.

Cinema is the most massive and most influential art. For example, the so -called “Netflix effect” is widely discussed, in which an object, action, lifestyle becomes attractive, as they are part of the history and life of an attractive hero. And sales of chess, sneakers or "Parisian" berets take off. Is it possible to reproduce this effect artificially?

1954 poster. The opposition mainstream today is obvious - in the upcoming September elections, most of those who, as they say, do not support and do not approve of the party’s policy. The anti-Putin coalition of representatives of different movements, parties, social groups and even professional communities in the allotted period will vote in some way. The refuseniks advocated for the boycott of the entire event look marginal. There are few of them.

Antibodies, attacking elements of their own immune system ( autoanthelia , auto-aggressive antibodies) is a key factor that causes some people heavy flow and death from Covid-19. This was revealed during a major international study, the results of which were published on August 19 in the journal Science Immunology. An equally important conclusion of scientists: autoantothyds are also present in a small proportion in healthy people, and their number increases with age.

“Make me for sure” - a book about how IVF and other reproductive technologies change our life, which recently published at Individuum. The author of the book is Inna Denisova , a journalist and documentary director. In an interview with the Future magazine on the Republic platform, she talked about ethical and other problems arising in connection with the development of reproductive technologies, ways of solving them and the importance of the author’s view in the literature of non-fiction.