In January 2022, it is difficult to write columns: it seems to be there a lot of hot ones, and the audience is inflated by anxiety and gloomy expectations, but there are almost no facts for analysis. Therefore, it remains only to emotion and (or) try to see the answer to all questions in some half-wings. Unfortunately, we do not know anything about what our leaders are capable of and what they are actually going to arrange. And we have no ways to influence them.

“The main of these problems is the lack of a clear definition of what intelligence is, and the problem arising from this with its measurement and comparison. The exact methods of measuring intelligence were not invented even for our type. Traditional human intelligence tests-IQ tests-cause many doubts and disputes among professionals and enlightened inhabitants. The fact is that intelligence is multidimensional, and it is impossible to unequivocally measure on a one -dimensional scale.

Military exercises of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

At the start of the year, the tiger was mixed in the Nazarbayev’s House. On January 2, spontaneous protests began in different cities of the country against increasing liquefied gas prices. And already on January 5, with the light hand of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev, the protesters turned into "terrorist gangs ...

In the West they are mistaken. Many, first of all, diplomats and journalists, believe that Emmanuel Macron is wrong, believing that the European Union can be established as a player in the international arena. And Vladimir Putin, on the contrary, is right, so not believing in the European Union that in relation to Ukraine he competes not with him, but with the United States.

The Russian authorities abandoned the bill on the introduction of the QR codes-the second and most important of the two restrictive anti-icing documents introduced by the government in the fall.

In the 2010s, the movement of “citizens of the USSR”-people who believe that the Soviet Union legally stopped existing, and the Russian Federation, on the contrary, is an illegitimate structure, was widely used in Russia. The book of Mikhail Akhmetyev “Citizens without the USSR. The communities of “Soviet citizens” in modern Russia ” (has just been published by the owl information and analytical center*) is one of the first serious studies of this unusual phenomenon.

No matter how you relate to the series “The kidney” (and in the Russian folk chat “Ozzovik”, a variety of opinions have been expressed about it, up to clearly negative), he clearly decorated the Russians for the New Year's holidays. Officially, the genre of the series is designated as an adventurous comedy, but in fact it is mixed and terrible there in equal proportions, more precisely this: it is ridiculously told about the reality of modern life, in which there are a lot of truly terrible.

Joe Biden. Photo: Adam Schultz / White House On January 20, a year has been performed since Joe Biden took the oath and took office as president of the United States. His inauguration process took place in extreme conditions: two weeks before that, the supporters of the loser in the Donald Trump elections arranged an attack on the Capitol when the voting results were approved there.