Digest of December posts on comet 3I/ATLAS, the Chagall exhibition and the Decembrists

Let us recall the good things! Returning to the interesting December publications on the channel

📌 On the unification of the Christian denominations

📌 Comet 3I/ATLAS: the finest interstellar light show in history

📌 Why we buy books

📌 Chronicles of the most famous flood in Moscow

📌 “Homo homini amicus, collega et frater est”. Why Latin was brought back into schools under Stalin

📌 Notes from the animal world. The heroes of Mowgli in Yellowstone National Park

📌 I tell of the Marc Chagall exhibition at the Pushkin Museum.

📌 Nicolas Sarkozy is a Gen Zer. A short review of the former French president's book

📌 On the absence of political culture in the modern world

📌 It is now permitted to tell the truth about Lenin!

📌 On carelessness and chance in the shaping of the historical view. For the 200th anniversary of the Decembrist uprising

📌 A charming story in the genre of “meant for the best, turned out as always”.

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