The authority of Marx in Russia has experienced several epoch-making breakdowns. What is it based on? Why did Lenin choose this particular doctrine when he led his party to power? How much Marxism in Stalinism? Why did European youth turn to Marx in 1968, destroying the ideals of their fathers? How was "Capital" learned in a country that considers itself the citadel of victorious Marxism, in China?

For three years now, a large family of the Old Believer Fyodor Kilin from Latin America has been moving to the taiga of Primorsky Krai. And this is not just a geographical movement across the ocean to the Motherland, it is a process of reunification with the land, the modern culture of the historical homeland, with the people who inhabit it, with the state. And sometimes this process takes on tragic features.

All foreign encyclopedias speak of him as an outstanding American physicist. A memorial plaque adorns the wall of the prestigious George Washington University in the US capital; astronauts have named a large crater on the Moon after him. But the physicist George Gammow was the Russian Georgy Antonovich Gamow. Before perestroika, his name was banned in Russia. Only in 1990, Gamow was posthumously returned the title of Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, which he received in 1928, becoming the youngest chosen one in the history of Russian science.

"Brain drain" is a positive and negative process at the same time. On the one hand, the West recognizes the priority of Russian scientists, on the other hand, our science suffers losses. Does this phenomenon pose a serious threat to the future of Russia? Or, in the context of expanding globalization, successful emigrants are valuable for the country not returned to their homeland, but outside it?

The fate of Russian women who married foreigners and went to live in a foreign country. The happy story of Laura Yablochkina and Tonino Guerra, the dramatic story of Albina, a girl from Kemerovo, and Chai, who, due to tragic circumstances, had to move to a small town in Vietnam, the story of Elizaveta Kishkina, the wife of Mao Zedong's associate Li Lisan, who spent 8 years in a Chinese prison .