Vladimir Kolokoltsev / Kremlin.ru In the week, the ruble accelerated the fall by updating many months of anti -records. The national currency course, following the results of Friday trading, stopped at a mark of 99.5 rubles for $ 1 - closely approaching a psychologically important line. That in this regard the authorities are going to undertake ( and are they going to at all ) is still not clear.

The publishing house "Alpina Plisher" saw the book "New Family: Guest marriage, a patchwork and other formats of relations in the modern world" Journalist Svetlana Kolchik . As long as 200 years ago, people lived in large patriarchal families, with grandfathers-grandmothers under the same roof. With the onset of the industrial era, a nuclear family of two spouses and one or two children appeared.

15+15: two wars in post -Soviet Georgia The five-day Russian-Georgian war in August 2008, which formally ended 15 years ago, August 12, de facto issued the rejection of its rebellious autonomy from Georgia-South Ossetia. From the point of view of international law, the republic remains part of Georgia, but in fact it is not controlled by it since the collapse of the USSR.

Evacuation from the frontline zone. 1941 Photo: RGAKFD / Rosinform / is given in the book by Wendy Goldman and Donald Filzer “The Fortress Dark and Hard” © Publishing House “New Literary Review” The book of historians Wendy Goldman and Donald Filzer “ The Fortress is dark and harsh: the Soviet rear during the second World War I ” (Russian translation enters the publishing house a new literary review ) tells the history of a total war over the front line.