Political scientist and historian Nikolai Mitrokhin every week writes a review of key events that took place in the Russian-Ukrainian war for subscribers to Republic. In this issue: what are the scale of the Ukrainian Blackout, why Russia desperately needs peace negotiations, how Ukrainian drones reached Novorossiysk and why the West did not support the Ukrainian version of the fall of a rocket in Poland.

I am sitting in a small coffee shop in the Tbilisi district of Vera and waiting for an informant. Around me, Russians replace each other: a bearded ITSHK with a Corgi, a strict PR man, two creative appearance of a girl with a samoyed. Finally, Vasily comes in (the name is changed to maintain anonymity. - la). He is awake and cheerful, although I know that until recently he was forced to leave one favorite job and he was threatened to dismiss the second.

An effective manager: anatomically accurate waxy figure of a Neanderthal, dressed in a modern suit (but with a stone knife in his hand), in the Neanderthal Museum (Mettman, Germany). The character’s name is “Mr. four percent”: this is the maximum share of Neanderthal genes in the genome of modern man.

In parallel with the war in Ukraine, the Russian authorities continue to wage war with LGBT people in Russia. The State Duma introduces criminal liability for the promotion of “non -traditional sexual relations” and is trying to recognize the forbidden information about the people who changed the floor. Many LGBT Russians leave the country.

Trenches in the north of Crimea Photo: Benjamin Pittet In the Belgorod Region, on the border with Ukraine, a new serif feature is formed due to a tense situation, today the governor of the region Vyacheslav Gladkov said. The serial feature in Ancient Rus' was called the system of engineering wooden defensive structures at borderline lines, which in the X - XVII century were protected from the raids of the Crimean and Nogai Tatars.

A frame from a video with captured Russian military who will be shot Photo: social networks The New York Times confirmed the authenticity of video that appeared on social networks and telegram channels, in which, presumably, the Ukrainian military kill the surrendered Russian soldiers.

Stadium at the World Cup 2022 in Qatar Photo: FIFA In Qatar, where the 2022 World Cup began, it became known about the new prohibitions introduced by the organizers of the tournament. They relate to the support of LGBT people and Jews. Two days before the opening of the mundial, FIFA said that beer would not be sold at stadiums. Subscribe to read the whole Make a subscription Redefine.media to read Republic Subscribe [you can pay for a Russian or foreign card.

The West reacted carefully to the incident with the fall of the rocket in Poland, but the question of the possibility of a direct conflict of NATO and Russia was again on the agenda. And the constant shelling of cities and energy facilities in Ukraine raises questions about strengthening the assistance of Ukraine from the West at least in terms of deliveries of missile defense systems.

Detention of a soldier in the Belgorod region Photo: Telegram channel "Veteran" In Russia, against the backdrop of the new wave of mobilization under discussion, they began to demonstrate to the military to demonstrate to the first well -known criminal cases of non -fulfillment of orders. The punishment for such misconduct was tightened in the fall of this year after the announcement of the draft reservist in the army.

A billboard in one of the Russian cities Photo: CNN In the Rostov Region, the Bataisky City Court fined a local resident Olesya Shishkanov for 30 thousand rubles, who published a video message from her mobilized brother with his colleagues about the poor supply of reservists and problems on the front line. The woman was found guilty of “discrediting” the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. This was reported to the Republic today in the office of the court.

Sergey Lavrov / Mid.ru The past week, like all previous ones, passed for Russia under the sign of growing international isolation. In particular, foreign policy. The eloquent were the move and the results of the Indonesian summit G20, where the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov went instead of President Putin.

Moscow Kremlin Roman Denisov, Roman Denisov/Global Look Press The Progressive Policy Foundation issued a report “Images of the future for Russia: scripts, forks and assessments”, which discusses four scenarios of further development of the country after the war in Ukraine and the “crash of the world order”. The most likely political scientists and economists consider the scenario of the USSR 2.0, which involves the reproduction of Soviet experience.

Destroyed Russian tanks and armored vehicles in the liberated estuary Photo: CNN Since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, Russian troops have lost a colossal number of military equipment: at least 8044 combat vehicles, including 40% of tanks. This was reported by the Oryx project, which keeps an invoice for losses in military equipment, taking into account only documented cases.

The publishing house "Alpina Plisher" is published by the book of journalist and human rights activist Eva Merkacheva, "Loud affairs. Crimes and punishments in the USSR. ” This is a book about the most high -profile criminal cases of the Soviet era. Many materials were not previously published and were first issued from the archives personally to the author.