Society

• Authorities 19 May, 09:00 Old world destroyed, we should build a new one Expert: Russia should give up restraining the development of the consumer market in the country
• History 19 May, 09:00 Sergey Khestanov: ‘People in the USSR began drinking from the 7th-8th grade, especially in the countryside’ The economist on motives of Gorbachyov’s anti-alcohol campaign and reasons for its failure
• History 15 May, 09:00 “There is never one truth in a war. But years later we can look at events from the outside” Photographer Artur Bondar about the unique photo archive of the Great Patriotic War he found

• Authorities 19 May, 09:00 “Plenipotentiaries are a vestige of the past, but...”: pandemic turns the vertical of power in Russia by 90 degrees
• Culture 18 May, 09:00 ‘Once a homeless man brought us a Raketa watch. We sold it in Belarus for 650,000 rubles’ The owner of a collection of 5,000 watches about the Russian watch industry and very expensive accessories
• 15 May, 09:00 Has coronavirus given impetus to Russian IT industry?

• Education 15 May, 09:00 ‘It is very easy to close and wind up a university in Russia’ Sociologist Pavel Sorokin on how foreign students study in Russia, how to choose a university and the set-up of the education market
• Infrastructure 14 May, 09:00 Under waste pressure: Europe urgently builds factories like Kazan WIP
• Medicine 13 May, 09:00 “Doctors are coming off shifts like a squeezed orange”: Nizhnekamskneftekhim providing assistance to doctors Yunost camp has become the centre for a comfortable stay for doctors in the period of the pandemic

• Authorities 14 May, 09:00 Single database of personal data — bureaucratic relief or a path to 'digital concentration camp'? What is the threat of creating a unified federal information register: expert comments
• Authorities 13 May, 09:00 “Saakashvili is more likely to hinder than to help” Mikhail Saakashvili has returned to serious politics. Can Saakashvili's successful Georgian reforms have the same effect in Georgia like in Ukraine?
• History 13 May, 09:00 Video version of Immortal Regiment by KOS, online excursion to Great Patriotic War museum and Memory Garden from NKNK Companies of TAIF Group welcome Victory Day during the pandemic