Russian President Vladimir Putin and PRC Chairman Xi Jinping are heading to the venue of a military parade in Beijing Photo by Alexander Kazakov / Pool / AFP Immortality, in spite of any prohibitions, since ancient times, remains the subject of the lust of many people, and especially the rulers, who always begins to seem that the state is they are.

I. In distant childhood, I read in the Soviet encyclopedic dictionary. That this one, which everyone knows, the poem of Shota Rustaveli was called "Vityaz in the Barskaya skin." And not the "knight in the tiger skin", as many people think. And then I went to school and said to everyone: they heard, they say, about a knight in a leopard skin. Especially to ask: in which one? And so, proudly: in Barsova. And you, miserable ostents, still believed that in a simple tiger.

Photo from the meeting of Donald Trump with Vladimir Putin in the hands of Donald Trump Photo by Andrew Caballero-Rynolds / AFP At the beginning of the year, Donald Trump believed that you can agree with Vladimir Putin, just talking. Today, his posts in social networks are increasingly sounding not as prudent diplomatic statements, but as jealous replicas of the offended partner.

Irina Borogan and Andrey Soldatov are reporters who specialize in the activities of Russian special services (last Friday Soldatov put on the international wanted list in the case of Fakes). In the summer, they published the book “Our Dear Friends in Moscow” - the story of their near -journalistic company, from which the majority now work for the Russian government and serve the war.