The Russian leadership almost openly says that during a “special military operation” in Ukraine, it wages a war with the collective West. The expanding scale of military assistance to Kyiv by the United States and Western European states as a whole confirm this. In fact, the capabilities of the parties are now checked in the event of a direct military clash.

The book of Mikhail Fishman “The successor. The story of Boris Nemtsov and the country, in which he did not become the president. " This is a fascinating portrait of Nemtsov, written in the wide context of his era. Not so much the biography of a particular political leader as the latest history of Russia as a whole, just Nemtsov is the central figure of this story. Republic talked with Mikhail Fishman about the book, Nemtsov, his murder and alternative history of Russia.

The Portrait of the Duke of Wellington, written by the great Spanish painter Francisco Goya, was abducted from the London National Gallery in 1961. This was the first theft in one of the most famous museums on the planet in its then 137-year history. For a long time it was believed that a serious criminal organization stole the picture. However, four years later, a 61-year-old taxi driver from Newcubus named Campon Bank admitted to the crime.

The human brain changes throughout life. A large -scale study on this topic was published the other day in Nature magazine. Scientists have created brain growth charts that cover the entire duration of human life. In its work, the international group of researchers united more than 120,000 results of brain scanning, starting from the stage of the emergence of life (the scan of the "youngest brain", which is included in the analysis, was made at 16 weeks after conception) up to 100 years of age.

To affirm anything in the days of the war is not that it is predicted. War is an event from which you do not get distracted. Today it is foolish to prove that the Russian system is inclined to fight, only how will it cope with the war already begun? It is clear that the question of the world is related to the question of its future. The requests for predictions are in vain - in the clause of the fog of the war it is impossible to foresee, everything will solve weapons in the hands of people.