Exactly 35 years ago, the central authorities allowed Sverdlovsk enthusiasts to print their own francs. Today, the Ural Republic is associated with this exotic currency, whose project seriously influenced all Russian politics of the 1990s.

Upsala-Circus is a social circus project for children and teenagers in difficult life circumstances, created in St. Petersburg in 2000. After the war in Ukraine began, its artistic director Larisa Afanasyeva left for Germany with part of the team. And ended up in the German provinces, where the far right is currently gaining popularity

The premiere of the film reconstructing Algeria’s struggle for independence took place on August 31, 1966, at the Venice Film Festival. Since then, this film has inspired activists around the world

Back then, no one thought that war would turn out to be only the first — the Second Chechen War began in August 1999. And both key participants in the Khasavyurt Accords did not live to see its end