Frame from the film "Watercolor" (2018, dir. Victor Kosakovsky) Another movie What then? Each living not once asks this question. And he answers him, depending on what he believes in science or religion. In his weekly column, Maxim Trustlyubov* recalls his disputes with his parents - and takes off old oppositions. - And then? - It is impossible to know. It must be believed that after death everything will somehow continue.

The reconstructor in the form of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation talks with the child after the end of the reconstruction of the episode in the Kursk region during the celebration of Russia Day. June 12, 2025, Moscow region, Patriot Park On June 12, on the day of Russia, a military reconstruction was held in the Patriot Park - but not traditional, dedicated to episodes of the Second World War, as is usually the case at such events, but based on the events of modern war in Ukraine.

French President Emmanuel Macron shows options for the development of events by German Chancellor Friedrich Herza, British Prime Minister Kir Stalda and Prime Minister Poland Donald Tusk Leon Neal / Pool Via AP / Scanpix Europe, which until recently seemed tired and fragmented, today with unprecedented determination is preparing for a big war.

People with US flags at a demonstration on "Neva Day" in Los Angeles, California, June 14, 2025 Reuters / David Ryder / Scanpix Spontaneous protests in Los Angeles, provoked by anti-migrant raids, were swollen in a large-scale series of rallies against Donald Trump’s policy in the cities of the United States under the slogan “Down with autocracy”-that is, excuse me, “no kings”. The presidential race, obviously, has already begun, and the first applicants appeared in it.

The legendary documentary Marseille Ofuls exposed the French collaborators and despised nationalism. His life was almost as exciting and long as his films - he died on May 24, 2025 at the age of 97. Vasily Legueido talks about a director whose films after half a century did not just have lost relevance - the discussions around them are painfully reminiscent of today's debate about memory policy. Is it worth it to turn the past? Is there a collective wine?