Vitaly Shklyarov: "Prison is good because they remove the mechanism of invention from you"
Vitaly Shklyarov is a political strategist who worked for Barack Obama, Angela Merkel, Ksenia Sobchak. He is a man who was in a pre-trial detention center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus after the 2020 elections, but he was saved thanks to the actions of the US authorities. In his long interview with Novy Prospekt, a self-made professional talks about his life in Kyiv, how Minsk 2020 influenced current events in Ukraine, why he became a producer of the first feature film about the suppression of protests in the capital of Belarus as well as about the present and future of the former "fraternal republics" of the USSR.
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Russia is accused of "genocide of the Ukrainian people." The accusation from the point of view of Russia itself is obscure. This seems to be more of a cultural-political aspect than a literal one, but serious terms lose their meaning when the people start to spread and manipulate them.
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Елена Хлесткина: "Без ВИРовской коллекции не будет селекции"
Елена Хлесткина, директор ФИЦ «Всероссийский институт генетических ресурсов растений им. Вавилова», рассказала «Новому проспекту» о научной составляющей сельского хозяйства, о редактировании генома растений и о том, почему основные производители семян в западных странах — это крупные химические концерны.
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