10 years ago, protests began, the only practical result of which was a powerful political reaction, intensifying every year. Did it begin due to protests or was it inevitable, and the protests against the results of the Duma elections began for the authorities only the reason to finally drop the mask? And most importantly - are events of a ten -year ago so important for the present and future of Russia, as it still seems to many of their participants?

Thirty years ago, on December 8, 1991, an agreement was signed in Belarusian whiskers on the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the first-the key-the phrase of which is remembered thirty years later: “We, the Republic of Belarus, the Russian Federation (RSFSR), Ukraine, as the state-owned states of the USSR, signed the 1922 Union Treaty ... We state the Union As a subject of international law and geopolitical reality ceases to exist. ” What was it? The versions diverge.

Against the backdrop of a multiple of attention to China, a multiple of attention in recent years, one curious moment is striking. Media publications often amaze the opposite of assessments and conclusions. Two camps were formed as if. One part of the authors enthusiastically writes that if not today, then tomorrow China will become a world leader, and prefers to talk exclusively about its successes.

Inflation in Russia in 2021 obviously went beyond the forecast and plan. Does this mean that the Central Bank failed its task of inflation targeting? According to the head of the Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina, her brooches are symbolic assessments of the state of the Russian economy. The rain cloud appeared on the lapel of the jacket of Nabiullina after a sharp, by 1 -building, increasing the key rate in July 2021.

The Enlightener Award in the category of “natural and accurate sciences” in 2021 was received by a biologist, professor of St. Petersburg State University Maxim Vinarsky for the book “The Gospel of Luca. In search of a genealogy of the animal world ” (here you can read an excerpt from it).

Not all experts believe in the realism of the threat of allegedly emanating from the Kremlin to begin military operations on the border with Ukraine. But the deputy of the European Parliament, journalist Bernard Getta considers such an opportunity as real and believes that the military-diplomatic intrigue tied to Vladimir Putin was almost insoluble Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin / Kremlin.ru Everything turned out to be even more complicated than we were afraid.

The Stockholm International Institute for Research of Peace Problems (Sipri) has published another study of the global weapons market. It analyzes statistics in 2020. The main conclusion: weapons manufacturers feel great, despite the Locdows, problems with transportation and a widespread decrease in GDP volumes. The military-industrial complex (defense industry), unlike the vast majority of the rest of the economy, turned out to be immune to the coronavirus and again showed growth.

Recently, Ukrainian Minister of Economics, Yulia Sviridenko, said that the country was completing 2021 with the highest dollar GDP in its entire history - about $ 195 billion. By this time, most Western observers have reduced their forecasts of GDP growth for the outgoing and coming years. So, in 2021, the IMF expects an increase in GDP by 3.2%, and the National Bank of Ukraine - by 3%. At the same time, the target indicators of GDP growth are 4-6% per year.

Once I thought this movie was of great importance for me. It was so important that it still seems to me - without it I would be a little different. There is not a single film in the world, the contents of which I would not have retold in detail to different people. In those days when I was still easily converging with people, my new close friends almost certainly heard from me about this movie. That is, translating into a modern language, the film “The Fifth Print” was part of my identity.

In the Moscow “New Publishing House” , Gleb Morev about Osip Mandelstam, partly complementing the last work of the literary critic, was published , the book “Poet and Tsar” , part of which is also dedicated to Mandelstam.

Red Army in Baku, May 1920 Photo: wikipedia.org The book of the historian Pavel pharmacist “Red Sun. The secret eastern campaigns of the Red Army ” ( Fifth Rome has just published in the publishing house) in detail tells in detail about the relatively little -known episode of early Soviet history - the Bolshevik attempts to“ bring the liberation of the working masses of the East ”.

In the past round, fans of all clubs in the Russian Premier League left their stands outside the gate. They did this in protest against police arbitrariness in relation to CSKA fans, as well as the introduction of FAN-OD. Recent police actions against CSKA fans forced fans to consolidate. Moreover, I have not heard such a unanimous condemnation of the police actions for a long time.

Moscow. The work of doctors in the reserve hospital for patients with Covid - the department of the GKB No. 24 at VDNH. Photo: Komsomolskaya Pravda / Global Look Press WHO recently updated her recommendations for the treatment of Covid-19. The organization changed its opinion on the use of plasma that have gleamed coronavirus infection.