The first half of the nineties was a time of great hopes and expectations associated with the collapse of the communist regime and the acquisition of independence. And today, recalling the events of more than thirty years ago, I ask myself: “What went wrong? Why were these expectations not met?” I hope that the book will encourage the reader to reflect on this topic.

This is her first book of non-fiction - a collection of essays, memoirs and reflections on memory and forgetting, music and love, emigration and connection to Belarus through the ghostly identity of a man who once believed that music was stronger than death and lyrics were more important than life.

The author of this book considers himself a professor of emigration. But his life is full of typos, as he himself admitted. He left Minsk for Kyiv, from there to Warsaw, and ended up in Berlin. Why did it happen? How much does glass and aluminum containers cost in Germany? What does an eye prosthesis look like? How to avoid a madhouse when faced with German bureaucracy? What does...

The book describes the main programs carried out in the United States to create new means of launching spacecraft into orbit. In addition to traditional launch vehicles, special attention is paid to reusable aerospace systems and promising hypersonic aircraft. In addition, the publication presents a retrospective review of the half-century evolution of aerospace aircraft projects and currently...

The novel The Idiot (1868) was conceived and written by Dostoevsky in Switzerland, the homeland of the great enlightener Rousseau, and therefore it is appropriate to recall his contemporary Voltaire, the author of The Innocent, a book that was one of the first attempts to show the 'ideal person' in this imperfect world. 'The main idea ... - wrote Dostoevsky about his novel, - is to portray a...

The book reflects the following questions: who was the culprit of the war - Germany or the USSR; was the Soviet Union preparing a preemptive strike against Germany; what goals did Germany pursue with regard to the USSR - the destruction of statehood, dismemberment, occupation and annexation of its territory to the Third Reich or the liberation of the peoples inhabiting the USSR from Bolshevism;...

Includes a booklet with an index of geographic place names.