The number one task for the Taliban is to consolidate state power in the country, that is, to put under their military, political and administrative control the entire territory of Afghanistan, including those distant provinces that were traditionally subordinated to Kabul only nominally. It is especially difficult to make Pashtuni, who, claiming the role of a state -forming ethnic group, nevertheless always stubbornly resisted any strong power emanating from Kabul.

I will begin, perhaps, with an insignificant story about personal impressions from the voting in Russia. No, I have not seen any terrible violations, carousels and stuffing. I have not seen anything special. I just walked from the station in a small town near Moscow - because I went to vote at the place of registration, roughly imagining what successes I have achieved digitalization in the country, and understanding, respectively, that it is impossible to participate in remote electronic voting.

Money experts analyze life hacks walking on the Internet - and say that not so with popular tips Photo: Global look Press About 14 million Russians now have access to exchange instruments, Mosbirzh calculated. That is, at least every sixth economically active citizen opened either a brokerage or individual investment account.

The Mother of God is the focus of the connection of the human and the divine, which is the basis of Christianity. Therefore, the image of the Virgin is key to Christianity for both Western and Eastern, both Russian and European. We already wrote about how in the Russian Orthodox tradition they portrayed the Mother of God itself .

The novel "Kipiai" proposes a scientific and fantastic thrash concept of the origin of power and its media relations The once successful, and now painted writer, a master of political satire, painfully looking for material for a new book - and suddenly receives a letter from an anonymous source that promises to provide a slaughter texture, and even pay a good fee for writing a book. And immediately translates an impressive advance.

The history of the mine village, from which all migrant workers suddenly (and completely illegally) were deported in the book of Mitchell Abidor 'I'll Forget it are I Die!' (AK Press, August 2021) Deportation of striking miners-migrants from the city of Bisby, Arizona. July 17, 1917 Photo: postal postcard 1917 / Wikipedia.org Mitchell Abidor is an American translator, the left publicist and writer, author of the book “May, who created me: the oral history of the 1968 uprising in France” .

The announcement of the creation of the new Military Alliance Aukus (Australia, Great Britain and the USA) was accompanied by the news of the breakdown of a major contract between France and Australia for the production of 12 submarines. This caused a large scandal with far -reaching consequences. Aukus in itself should not surprise anyone.

In Russia, there is no registered vaccine against the Covid for children and adolescents so far. Tests are only conducted, and residents react like this: “only through my corpse” and “we don’t want to do ourselves” School in Havana. Temperature check before vaccination, September 16, 2021. Photo: Joaquin Hernandez / Xin Hua / Global look Press Cuba became the first country in the world, where they allowed to vaccinate children from the age of 2 years old.

The elections to the State Duma ended with a rather predictable result , for which, however, the power administrative machine had to work a lot manually. What was the logic of the actions of Kremlin political strategists in this election? Did Alexei Navalny become effective? Will the results of the State Duma elections in the Kremlin policy affect? What countries can you compare today's version of the Russian regime?