Protest of protest at the office of the Google DeepMind office in London June 30, 2025 VUK Valcic / Zuma Press Wire / Scanpix If you distract from the constant anxiety that political news causes, you can switch to another, possibly more exciting. This is a panic about the emergence of artificial intelligence in our life. In his weekly column, Maxim Trustlyubov* talks about fears that are well sold.

Frame from the film "Heads of State" (Ilya Nayshuller, 2025) Photo: IMDB On the Amazon Prime striming service, a comedic militant “Head of State”, shot by Ilya Naishuller, was released. This is the second American project of the director, who, it seems, decided to speak out in a humorous manner on the most relevant topic - the alleged collapse of the Western world and its complete confusion before Russia, which has finally fooled.

At the beginning of 2025, the World Meteorological Organization published a message that 2024 was the warmest in the history of observations. For the first time, the average global temperature increased by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to pre -industrial levels, overcoming the threshold established by the Paris Agreement. However, the news about this was almost unnoticed - in January 2025, the world was much more worried about the second presidential term of Donald Trump.

Vladimir Putin on the forum "Strong ideas for the new time", held by the agency of strategic initiatives Sergei Savostyanov/Tass Via Zuma Press/Scanpix Over the four years of the war in Ukraine, Russia not only did not achieve the stated goals, but also rapidly loses influence in the post -Soviet space in the world. The Kremlin changes rhetoric, but cannot hide geopolitical failures - from the Caucasus to the Middle East and Europe.

The first half of 2025 passed. Entrepreneurs, officials and economists began to talk more and more often about the recession of the Russian economy. How harmful will it be? What will happen to salaries, currencies, industries, military spending and budget. In an interview with Republic, an economist, Doctor of Economics, Igor Lipsitz (*The Ministry of Justice considers the Ino -Agent), told about all this.