The U.S. pays lip service to Israel, but in reality it is setting the Middle East on fire, contributing to the formation of a radical Islamist entity that will eventually sweep Israel away. There is a clear strategy in these seemingly contradictory actions: America has declared war on development in order to preserve its hegemony and destroy its geopolitical rivals. Today it needs to barbarize and archaize the global periphery. For Russia to be able to withstand, for it to be able to exist not in the logic of situational response, it must realize what it is facing and what it can counter the civilization of death.

The article deals with the relationship between playwright A.N.Afinogenov and his second wife, American ballerina Jenny Marling. During the publication of Afinogenov's diaries and letters (1960, 1977) these relations were kept silent: those fragments that demonstrated the complexity of the situation in the family were removed from the published documents. These difficulties began during the foreign tour of Afinogenov and Marling in Europe, and as a consequence, they became the ground for the playwright's thoughtful attitude to family problems in general and to the psychology of people's behavior in marriage, in particular. The article studies the phenomenon of “personal life” in the life of Stalin's playwright - how this mood was reflected in the writing of the play “Lies”. It was rejected by Stalin personally, yet the basic idea of the play seemed “rich” to him. Psychology and ideology in Afinogenov's life turned out to be incompatible moduses of the biography of “Stalin's playwright”.

The essay tells about the fate of the Yalta archpriest of St. Dimitri (Kiranov), his wife Anna Lvovna and son Lev Dmitrievich. The couple are godparents of the author of the essay, who spent his childhood near the church of St. John Chrysostom and put his memories and impressions into the essay. The participation of Father Dimitri, together with other Crimean clergy, in resisting the onslaught of the Bolshevik government and the Renovationist Church, in defending the constitutional rights of the Russian Orthodox Church is presented. A faithful and worthy companion in his life was Mother Anna. Together they experienced persecution of the church, persecution, slanderous accusations, the exile of Father Dimitri to Kazakhstan, the expulsion of his son to Arkhangelsk. In 1937, Father Dimitri was arrested and shot on January 4, 1938. In 1997, he was canonized as a locally venerated saint, and in 2000, at the Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, he was glorified for church-wide veneration as a new martyr.

The All-Russian Federation of Anarchist Youth (WFAM) is a unique historical phenomenon. This is the only anarchist youth organization of All-Russian scale that operated during the Great Russian Revolution and received a fairly wide response in the regions. Within the framework of the WFAM, an attempt was made to ideologically update Russian anarchism based on the concept of “unified anarchism”. In addition, the leaders of the WFAM attempted an organizational unification of the anarchist movement.

The article examines the socio-cultural views and economic activities of the outstanding Russian poet of the XIX century A.A.Fet. The innovative nature of the economic undertakings of A.A.Fet as a prominent landowner-innovator is noted; the relationship of his long-term work to improve the economy of his own estate with the important conclusions he made concerning the agrarian and socio-cultural evolution of the entire post-reform Russia.

The focus is on the demographic situation in the Ural village: the share of its population is in the total number of rural residents of Russia and in comparison with other regions; common and specific features inherent only to rural residents of the Urals are traced. Conclusion: in the conditions of the economic revival of the 2000s, healthy trends were already operating in the rural population of the Urals (in fertility, natural population growth and the volume of rural migration).

In the Russian Empire, refusal to officially recognize the national (ethnic) identity of subjects was one of the pillars of national and religious policy (religion was indicated in documents). In the second half of the 19th century, in the context of the transition to all-class conscription, the conscription contingent expanded to include the non-Russian population, which raised the question of its suitability for service in the armed forces. As part of the discussion of this issue, there was actual recognition of the country’s “multinationality” in the works of General Staff officers and in special interdepartmental committees.

The United States of America has been playing a key role in the geopolitical space for more than a dozen years. Today, it is almost impossible to imagine the political, economic and any other global picture without mentioning the US. However, it is common for any state to face difficulties, and today Washington is facing a serious series of the latter, which suggests the prospects for an American future as a world superpower.