Dear editors ! I don’t know how you, dear colleagues, and I personally, after a three -week series of New Year's holidays, starting with Catholic Christmas and ending in the old year, I feel a certain devastation and prostration. It seems that everything that happened in 2017 has already happened a long time ago, so there is an opportunity to look at the events of last year from the height of history.

Maria Khrushcheva According to sociologists and philosophers of science, any scientific knowledge is due to the basis that has been prepared by a certain moment the cultural development of society, religion, art, and developed socio-economic relations. V. Ulyanov, F. Dzerzhinsky, K. Voroshilov, M. Gorky, K. Chukovsky, S. Yesenin, A. Akhmatova, B. Pasternak, S. Mikhoels, V. Meyerhold, D. Shostakovich ... Portrait of the era. And his author is one.

Ekaterina Buz The united efforts of the free historical society, the publishing house The New Literary Review and the Educational project of Arzamas published a book by Vera Milchina 1 “The French useful and harmful” with the subtitle “Supervision of foreigners in Russia under Nicholas I”. The book consists of two unequal in volume, but equal to entertaining parts. The text is decorated with absolutely wonderful, accurate and witty illustrations by the artist Dmitry Epifanov.

Natalia Reznik You will not surprise anyone with the collective behavior of insects now, but we did not expect this from Drosophila. And the Drosophila melanogaster larvae, it turns out, coordinates their actions during food and get significant advantages from this. Food is almost the main occupation of the larva that it starts, barely hatched from the egg. In four days, she needs to increase the weight by 200 times.

Marina Vishnevetskaya Words included in the language, and often only in fashion, in one or another year, are pebbles by which we can return to ourselves, the former, who lived then, in the middle of such and circumstances that seemed significant millions-and why? After a year or two, it can already be difficult to understand. The meaning of neologisms wandering from the article to the article is forgotten.

Svetlana Fat On December 12, 2017, Andrei Anatolyevich Zaliznyak read a report on birch bark letters found last season at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; On December 16, he conducted a lesson with students of Moscow State University on the historical accentology of the Russian language; On December 24, he was gone.

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Andrey Anatolyevich Zaliznyak “Those who are aware of the value of truth and decaying power amateurism and quackery and tries to this power resist, will continue to be in the difficult the situation floating against the current ... " Very often we recall important statements of wonderful people after their death. Of course, it would be better to remember more often during life, but so we are arranged. When Andrei Zaliznyak died, his quote about the Truth flew around social networks.

The entire issue of the newspaper Trinity Option - Science No. 245 of January 16, 2018 in PDF Number Materials in HTML The announcement of the room The phenomenon of the ground Boris Stern , Svetlana Tolstaya and Vladimir Uspensky - the memory of an outstanding linguist and citizen - pp. 1-2, 4–5 "Poppy business" as a mirror of obscurantism Andrey Rostovtsev about the case of Olga Zelenina - p.

Alexey Sivukhin Creator and Head of the Arkha Cultural and Educational Center Alexei Sivukhin: - What new came up with Arkha for 2018? -In February of this year, we finally fulfill our dream- we open a branch in St. Petersburg . So far, of course, all this will not be in the same volume as in Moscow. Before the fall, the branch will work three times a week (one day - a course of lectures, other days - one -time lectures).

The speech of A. A. Zaliznyak at the ceremony of awarding him the Alexander Solzhenitsyn Literary Prize, clarified from an audio recording. The ceremony took place on May 16, 2007 at the Russian Abroad library-fund. “I thank Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn and the entire Solzhenitsyn jury for the great honor that I have been awarded. At the same time, I cannot help but admit that this award gives me not only pleasant feelings, but also great embarrassment.

Natalya Solzhenitsyna congratulates Andrei Zaliznyak on the prize. Photo from the site www.lgz.ru The speech of A. A. Zaliznyak, specified by the audio recording [1] at the ceremony of presenting him to the literary prize Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The ceremony took place on May 16, 2007 at the Russian Library Fund. I thank Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn and all the Solzhenitsyn jury for the great honor that I was awarded.

Yuri Dmitriev. Photo by N. Skek At the end of last year, several important changes occurred in the investigation in the criminal case of local historian, publicist, chairman of the Karelian branch of the Memorial Society Yuri Dmitriev. A second study entrusted by the court of the Federal Department of Independent Forensic Expertise from St. Petersburg did not reveal signs of pornography in the pictures of his minor adopted daughter Natasha.

A three-hobby continues a series of articles about the present and future of INION. The newspaper turned to experts who spent more than one year in Ionion, with questions: “How do you see the future of INION (if you see)? How, in your opinion, should this future be developed and designed? " We publish expert answers and hope to continue the discussion. Lev Gudkov , doct. Philos.

Fragments of the press conference of the President of the RAS A. M. Sergeev and the head of the FANO M. M. Kotyukov, Presidium of the RAS, December 27, 2017 (full version + video). — Your reaction to the letter of 400 scientists to the President of the Russian Federation [1]? A . Sergeev : First. Our country is free, so everyone has the right to express their views, write a letter to the president, there can be no objections here. Second.