50 years ago, April 8, 1966, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee was elected Leonid Brezhnev. The ceremony was largely symbolic, since Brezhnev after Khrushchev in October 1964 already at the head of the party, being its first Secretary. Now existed under Stalin and Khrushchev abolished the position of …
Read More »Memory lapses
Almost any Russian, if he had to compare his country with any other, will surely not compare it with Portugal (which our President promised to catch up in terms of gross domestic product per capita in his famous article in “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on 30 December 1999) Of course, in …
Read More »Scientists have uncovered the mechanisms of collective memory in bacteria
Caulobacter crescentus Image: microbewiki Scientists from ETH Zurich have determined the formation of a collective memory in bacteria, which helps to deal with stress. A study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Microbiologists have conducted observations of several colonies of bacteria Caulobacter crescentus. First, scientists …
Read More »Putin ordered the state authorities to perpetuate the memory of victims of political repressions
The President of Russia Vladimir Putin signed a law that gives state authorities the right to implement measures to perpetuate the memory of victims of political repression. The document is published on the official Internet portal of legal information. The law also enshrines the right of state agencies to support …
Read More »The opposition has applied for a March in memory of Boris Nemtsov
In the mayoralty of Moscow sent an official request to hold a March in memory of politician Boris Nemtsov, said a member of Bureau of Federal political Council Parnassus Konstantin Merzlikin. The application, according to Merzlikina, filed on March 27 February with participation to 50 thousand persons. The route of …
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