On Thursday, October 14, at 19:00 Moscow time , the next stream Republic Talk will be held on our YouTube channel, whose guest will be the journalist and critic Yuri Saprykin. He is well known to many of our readers as the former editor -in -chief of the Poster publication and the head of the regiment project.

On October 6, an unknown hacker published a post on 4Chan called “Twitch leaks, one” and attached a link to a torrent file with an archive of 125 GB to him. Inside: the source code of the platform, the VAPOR project (the upcoming Steam competitor from Amazon), as well as the salaries of the largest streamers on the platform. The company immediately confirmed the drain and explained it with a mistake in changing the server configuration.

Who did not meet in the pre -Settlement era with mysterious pictures? In the chaos of lines depicting something ordinary: a garden or city street - it was necessary to identify playing foxes, an evil wolf or a spy with a raised collar in a hat. Finding them in the contour figure is not at all easy. Today, the role of contour arabesques is played by current news.

Actually, there is no Nobel Prize for the economy. There is a Sveriges Riksbank award in the field of economic sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel, whose winners are determined by the same Nobel Committee. However, for simplicity, this award is also called Nobel. If you look at the last nobels in the economy, then the definition of “shallow might” comes to mind. Judge for yourself.

"The devil guessed me to be born in Russia with my soul and with talent!" -This Pushkin phrase, with all the importance of it for Russian culture, still requires a certain context. Pushkin here (in a letter to his wife from 1836) says that any substantial activity in Russia puts a person between two lights: between the extensive set of threats emanating from the police state and the pathos cleanliness of civil society.

On Monday, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, represented by Deputy Minister Sergei Obvritalin under a nonsense pretext (“Numerous complaints about this picture received from citizens”) forbidden the rental of the documentary “Hunger”, telling about mortal hunger in the Volga region of the early 1920s. || Our archival text is an excerpt from the book of the American historian Douglas Smith “Russian Mission.

The journalist of Komsomolskaya Pravda in Belarus, Gennady Mozheiko in Minsk, officially charged under two articles of the Lukashenkovsky Criminal Code: “Fruitment of social hostility or growth” and “Insulting a representative of power”. Of course, nothing good awaits him, and indeed it is not known what is with him now: a journalist in a pre -trial detention center, in the cell “with a quarantine in the coronavirus” , nor relatives or lawyers can visit him.

A few years ago, among the top managers of Silicon Valley in fashion , there was a passion for “microdining” of psychedelics , in particular, LSD (in the Russian Federation it is a list of drugs prohibited for circulation, the editors of the Future magazine on the Republic Platform do not propagate the use of prohibited substances ). It was believed that they increase creativity and improve performance, as they help concentrate, and overall well -being.

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.

Photo: Pexels.com While the whole world followed the South Korean series “Game in the Kalmar” (we will write about the social background of this show in the near future. - Republic ), the Chinese were immersed in an equally exciting game - “Murder according to the script”, which also requires the personal presence of each of the participants.

Since the premiere on Netflix, the Korean “game in Kalmara” has managed to become not only a worldwat hit, but also a rich source of memes in Tik-Tok, and this still spent its popularity. In Russia, however, another ridiculous story happened to the series. It is unlikely that anyone is shocking that our fellow citizens do not like to pay too much for the subscription on official online platforms, preferring pirate sites.

Real estate prices that have taken off to heaven force people from different countries to abandon the dream of becoming the owners of their home. A whole generation can remain on the side of life. Luxembourg. Photo: Mika Baumeister / Unsplash.com The pandemic has repainted the global housing market.

One of the summer issues of the podcast "Comrade Foreigner" was devoted to vaccination from Covid in Russia. Then many hoped for the early recognition of the Russian vaccine by the World Health Organization. Time has shown that in vain-the prospect of recognition of the "satellite V" in Europe and the world is still uncertain.

Today, the State Duma of the eighth convocation will gather at the first meeting. The elections in September, on the one hand, became a formality, and on the other, they have a systemic effect on the parameters of the ruling regime. At least this is thought by a political scientist, a researcher at University College of London Vladimir Pastukhov.