February reminds us that the coldest time of year is always followed by renewal, and we recall the key publications of the last winter month. A of the most interesting posts of the past 28 days:

📌 A living sea. Kazakhstan has solved the environmental problem of the North Aral

📌 “Ministerial furniture” at a royal price in Versailles

📌 The French Senate has approved the restitution of cultural property, while the security services approve the liquidation of African political leaders

📌 The Russians have won! What the American newspapers wrote on 4 October 1957

📌 An Olympic village on prison grounds. Not America but a Siberian concentration camp

📌 Robert Maxwell: how Epstein is connected with the creator of academic capitalism

📌 Demna Gvasalia’s manifesto for Gucci: “Nothing intellectual”

📌 The Great Replacement: conspiracy theory or reality?

📌 “If you have no boundaries, you will talk nonsense”: the Czech director Jiří Menzel on censorship

📌 German-style justice: up to 5 years for a joke about Pinocchio

📌 Lopsided-bellied Ryazanites and Arkhangelsk walrus-eaters. A minute of ethnographic enlightenment