Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Sholts. Photo: Global look Press The latest foreign policy crisis has been going on for several weeks, but there is still no convincing version regarding the motives that guided the Kremlin, which first concentrated significant military forces on the border with Ukraine, and then publicly presented the United States and NATO non -trivial ultimatum .

Allergies to Marxism in intellectual Russian families are transmitted to children as a table silver. In this sense, our society is deeply provincial. Everyone is persecuted by the idea that we had barbaric Marxism, and now we are trying to return somewhere to Europe. And in Europe, everything is exactly the opposite. You come to any university, and there are Marxist wise men sitting there Alexey Tsvetkov Facebook Writer Alexei Tsvetkov today is almost the main popularizer of Marxism in Russia.

The main lessons of this crisis have yet to be extracted, and they will depend on the decisions that the Russian president will make. But in the course of a complex conflict around Ukraine, at least four generally accepted ideas were already adjusted. The first idea: the energy needs of the European Union are such that it depends on Russia, like an addict on its dealer.

Oil prices in anticipation of OPEC+ meetings are held at $ 90/barrels, and oil forecasts of $ 100 already seem quite realistic, and $ 150 for a little high. But at the end of last year, many expected correction in the oil market, or even trend changes. Not to mention last year's stories about the imminent death of the Oilman. The increase in oil prices in early 2022 was a certain surprise, notes the creator of the BitKogan telegram channel, professor of the Higher Superior Evgeny Kogan.

American historian Oscar Sanchec-Siboni, author of the book “Red Globalization. The political saving of the Cold War from Stalin to Khrushchev ” (just reached the Academic Studies Press / Bibliors ) casts in doubt the usual historical concept, according to which the Soviet Union was an economic Autarchy, a closed and separate part of the world economy, and the leaders of the USSR had the most vague and quite dogmatic idea of ​​the laws of the market.

According to analysts, the global market of electric cars is currently $ 287.36 billion and will grow by almost 25% annually. The trend also captures Russia: in 2021, we sold 2254 electric cars - 3.1 times more than a year earlier. About how the global and Russian market of electric vehicles develop and whether cars with an internal combustion engine disappear, says Oleg Klyavin, developer of electric vehicles.

The Publishing House "Myth" publishes the book "Humor - this is serious. Your secret weapon in business and life. ” Its authors- Jennifer Aacer (professor of the Steanford Higher School, a bichevorist scientist, writer and leading expert in the field of social psychology and marketing) and Naomi Bagdonas (teacher of the Steanford Higher School)-are trying to reveal the advantages of humor, business and life with the help of behavioral science in the book.

The escalation of tension on the Russian-Ukrainian border continues, but nothing is available for direct observation for the layman. Firstly, it is a large-scale and slowly developing process in space and time, which, in principle, cannot be covered in principle.

In February, Estonia celebrates Independence Day. On February 23, 1918, the corresponding manifesto was published in Pyarn after the almost 200-year stay of Estonia as part of the Russian Empire. True, then independence was given to the Estonians. I had to fight with the Bolsheviks for two more years. And only 102 years ago, on February 2, 1920, between the Estonian Republic and Soviet Russia, the Tartu peace treaty was signed: the Soviets recognized the independence of Estonia.

On February 2, 1943, the Battle of Stalingrad ended. On the anniversary of the event, photojournal publishes a large selection of unknown archival personnel from the collection of Arthur Bondar. In the text to the selection - the author’s thoughts on how, after the victory in the Battle of Stalingrad, the very name “Stalingrad” became the crown of Soviet propaganda and what happens with historical memory in our time.

An interesting conflict with the film “Navalny”, which this week nevertheless reached Russian pirate sites and returned to life an evergreen dispute about the admissibility of intellectual piracy in some special cases.