Last week has slightly reduced the intensity of the Ukrainian crisis. Except speculation in the press regarding the updated schedule of nuclear tests of the Russian Federation ( according to the Financial Times, the February demonstration of the power of nuclear potential is recognized as NATO with whom the West is dealing with) and the technical error of the Bloomberg agency with the publication of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (prophetic or not, time will indicate time on this subject) was.

We are used to the quirks of our native Russian propaganda and well know that its manufacturers have no moral barriers and even fantasy limits. Dmitry Kiselev has long threatened to turn America into “nuclear ashes”. Already 8 years have passed, and many people remember the “crucified boy”, allegedly wise in Slavyansk. If this story still passed by someone, we will recall its essence.

One of the worst situations during hostilities is to fly into your own minefield several months ago. The field, about which everyone has already safely forgot and whose maps were lost in the fever of military everyday life. And now it’s scary to take at least a step so as not to blow up on your own mines. It seems that in such a situation there was domestic diplomacy after Moscow received written answers to the United States and NATO to its ultimatums.

The Olympic Committee of Russia gave a forecast that our athletes can bring 30 medals from Beijing. There was no so much in the entire recent history of Russian sports. Optimistic forecasts of journalists predict 10 gold awards. In my opinion, all this is too bold, but still realistic. I would predict seven gold, and only 25 medals. And it will be an amazing result! The result, however, can be influenced by coronavirus, and in any direction: Covid can hit both Russians and rivals.

A month ago, Russian officials called Omicron “great danger”, called not to be considered a harmless disease, refuted its mild course, talked about the “pessimistic version” in the form of an increase in incidence of six -digit numbers and announced new measures to combat Omicron. A few weeks have passed. In Russia, the same pessimistic scenario was embodied - the incidence increased to 180 thousand cases per day.

It would seem strange that the global expansion of Homo sapiens went in the fierce cold of the last ice age - but in fact, it was these cruel conditions that allowed us to successfully settle in the globe of the globe Illustration: Videoanthrop Inc., Montreal/m. François Girard. Canadian Museum of History Actually, the main sphere of the scientific interests of Lewis Dartrel, the author of the bestseller “origin.

On February 4, a public discussion of the Presidential Decree Decree project completed “On the approval of the Fundamentals of the State Policy on the Preservation and Strengthening of Traditional Russian Spiritual and Moral Values” (officially seemed to have ended, but on February 6 it was possible to vote for or against the “bill on scrains”, as it christened it in social networks.

According to the reports of the Organizing Committee of the Beijing Olympiad, the tournament will cost Chinese taxpayers a modest $ 3.9 billion. However, the American analytical portal Business Insider believes that the organizers of the Winter Games did not take into account a number of expenses, as a result of which the cost of the Olympiad was 10 times underestimated. XXIV Winter Olympic Games cost $ 38.5 billion, confident in Business Insider.