On December 19, the 115th anniversary of the birth of Leonid Brezhnev turned away. The period of his reign today has become a certain “golden age” for philistine mythology. According to the study of the Levada Center (entered into the register of foreign agents), Russians relate to the Soviet regime of the late 1970s and early 1980s better than the current leadership of Russia.

On December 20, employees of the state security bodies of Russia celebrate their professional holiday.

“Well, how is it a banner? - Ostap asked impudently. - reaches? " The scene of the demonstration on the campaign made of a poster made by Bender and Kisoy Vorobyaninov recalled when viewing a briefing of the deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Ryabkov. A senior Midovsky official represented two of the document made by the document (I can’t believe that they were professional diplomats) - draft security agreements with the United States and NATO.

Bill and Melinda Gates. Photo: Ron Sachs / CNP / MediaPunch / Global Look Press The importance of the World Health Organization - especially today - is difficult to overestimate. It’s hard to believe, but even in the midst of the pandemic state-member states, the organization thinks about whether they should increase (and if so, how much) their regular contributions to the organization’s budget, which continues to save people's lives around the world.

“Female emancipation should be carried out in Leninsky”: how the Soviet government made the liberation of women in Central Asia part of the struggle against the Muslim clergy An excerpt from the book of the American historian Adib Khalid “Creating Uzbekistan.

Before the war, “Grozny was a wonderful city, and became Stalingrad!”, I have repeatedly heard the opinion of local residents during the Chechen war. He was never beautiful. In my Being Grozny, he was Soviet: a gray, dull provincial city. No features of national or Caucasian color.

Our times are gloomy: either we are waiting for a war, or a new turn of the Voronezh bombardment will cost, and maybe a thaw. Either transit with incomprehensible prospects, or stagnation with prospects understandable, but not rainbow. In general, we now have no reason for joy, but there are news that, adding black colors to the overall picture, are actually not news.

Tatyana Drubich in the movie "Rescuer" (1980) Once in an early youth, all the cinema was divided into Soviet and anti-Soviet. I understood not anti -Soviet content by anti -Soviet cinema, I just never saw and could not see such films. Just most of the films that I saw built a certain well -structured reality with a clearly defined hierarchy of values. I’m not that she hated her, this reality, in general, was normal and understandable.

Kremlin.ru In the week, the theme of the Ukrainian crisis continued to be in the center of an alarming geopolitical agenda. The concentration of the Russian contingent near the Donbass is only increasing, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg emphasized after negotiations with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky in Brussels on Thursday: “There are no signs of the cessation or slowdown in the transfer of Russian troops. Their extension, on the contrary, continues.

Individuum publishing house publishes the book of neurobiologist Mark Humphris “The speed of thought. A grandiose journey through the brain in 2.1 seconds. ” The author of the book explores the work of impulses and promises to answer the most pressing questions of the science of the brain. For example: how do we make decisions, control our own body and recognize faces (and cookies)? What does science know about impulses? And how many more secrets do our brain keep in itself?

Alexander Petrikov specifically for "Kashin" Published last week, “ thieves' run ”* - this genre loved this genre in the nineties, for example, unknown to whom the addressed note with the plan of the coup.