Adam Neumann / Wikipedia.org Update . The news of The Wall Street Journal, which reported on the eve that the WeWORK global network plans to apply for bankruptcy, had an immediate effect: the company's shares collapsed by 42%, and the statements of its official representatives that all these speculations were ignored.

Adam Neumann / Wikipedia.org The book “ A billion for a dream, or as the impudence and exorbitant ambitions of Adam Neumann, to build a new society turned into a collapse of the WeWORK empire ” by journalist Reevez Videman (recently published in Alpina Pro) about the history of the most famous international coworking network.

Late in the evening of June 8, 2020, a terrible fatal accident occurred on Smolenskaya Square in Moscow. Honored Artist of Russia Mikhail Efremov driving his “Jeep Grand Cheroki”, being very drunk, lost control, went into the oncoming lane and collided with the Lada Granta van, whose driver Sergey Zakharov received injuries incompatible with life, and after a few hours died in the hospital.

The founder of Vimpelcom and the first national mobile brand Beeline Dmitry Zimin died on December 22 at the age of 88. He moved away from business management in 2001, when he sold his share in Alfa-Group-and devoted himself completely to philanthropy and enlightenment. It is quite natural that it is about this side of Zimin’s activity that are now said the most. However, the story of this outstanding person will be incomplete without memories of his own “dashing 1990s”.

A rock image of a warty pig from the cave Leang Tedongngg. Photo: Science According to many years ( 2017 , 2018 , 2019 , 2020 ), the editors of the Future magazine asks the famous scientist and popularizer of science Alexander Markov to summarize the scientific results of the year and talk about the most important discoveries in evolutionary biology for the reporting period.

Albert Einstein Photo: Google Art What is secular humanism? The Swedish secular humanist, enlightener and publisher Krister Sturmark, author of the new book “Svetoch of reason. Rational thinking in XXI The century ” (goes in January at Corpus ) gives the following description of this concept: secular humanism is“ a common system of philosophical ideas about life, which does not include gods and supernatural forces, and their place is occupied by people and human worries.

The big press conference of the leader expectedly overshadowed other news-it is understandable: only once a year the Russians have the opportunity to find out how the beloved leader relates to Santa Claus (spoiler: very good, and even ready to protect him in court, if necessary, and it may be needed: in that Russia, who is completed by his beloved leader, even Santa Claus should not be rushed from prison).

We bring to your attention the ⁠SERIA ⁠ interview with Russian philosophers and leading specialists from various scientific disciplines studying ⁠ political life. In the format of conversations, intellectuals answer several questions, ⁠ how purely academic, ⁠ also socially significant.

What role in the appointment of Putin the successor was played by Boris Berezovsky, what is the current president owed to Sergey Kiriyenko and how did the Kovalchuk brothers become the most influential people surrounded by Vladimir Putin? In the new book “The Tsar’s move. The secret struggle for power and influence in modern Russia ”journalist Ilya Zhegulev tells about the struggle of elite clans in the Kremlin since the 1990s.

The flash of irritation, first at a meeting of the College of the Ministry of Defense , and then at a large press conference, Vladimir Putin, as it were, put a presidential seal on a rather crazy draft agreement with the United States , which had previously presented the Russian Foreign Ministry-that is, publicly envious that diplomats were not at all involved, but precisely describe it, Putin, a position.

For the first time, the desired definition at the highest level appeared last summer in the speech on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party of China, its leader Xi Jinping: “Based on the continuation and development of socialism with Chinese specificity, promoting the coordinated development of material, political, social, as well as environmental culture, we created a new Chinese model of modernization, created a new form of human civilization ( Highlighted by me ) ".