Day: October 11, 2017

The role of Nicholas II refused to attend the premiere of “Matilda” Lars Eidinger, who played Prince Nicholas, he feared for his life and will not come to the premiere of the movie “Matilda” in Russia. Criticism of the paintings he considers “irrational and unjustified”. German actor Lars Eidinger, who played the crown Prince Nicholas in the film by Alexei Uchitel “Matilda”, said that he would not go to Russia for the premiere of the picture. He stated this in an interview with DPA. The text of the interview is on the website of the German magazine Focus. To the question whether he plans to go to Moscow for the premiere of “Matilda,” the actor said, “No. I’m afraid that I will hurt or attack me.” Eidinger said that in Russia already there were attempts of attacks on the Director of the film Alexey Uchitel. He cited the example of

Akunin finished the last book about Fandorin. Galina Yuzefovich is about how the legendary detective has managed to become the only national hero of post-Soviet literature The writer Grigory Chkhartishvili (aka Boris Akunin) on 9 October announced on his Facebook that he finished the last book about Erast Fandorin. The novel will be released February 8, 2018: that is the last volume in the series (the name is still secret) will be in stores in exactly 20 years after the first. Literary critic of “Medusa” Galina Yuzefovich tells how Fandorin managed to become the only truly national hero in post-Soviet literature. The number of people wishing to speak on the topic “Fandorin in my life”, measured in the thousands, and it is very symptomatic: great Erast Petrovich, a blue-eyed brunette with grey temples, a stutterer, lucky and “noble man” without fear and reproach, was the only real hero in the

Men exceeded women in selfishness An international group of scientists from Switzerland, the Netherlands and Germany found that women less selfish than men. The results of neuroimaging revealed that the reward system in the brain of the fairer sex are more active when they share money with other people. The study is published in the journal Nature of Human Behaviour. It is believed that women are more altruistic than men. Some specialists suggests that the distinction really is and women’s prosocial behavior due to increased activity of certain neural structures in the brain. Others attribute this to gender stereotyping. However, if the difference really exists, men and women have different work remuneration system. The reward system helps to perpetuate the behavior with pleasures. A leading role in this process plays the factor of internal reinforcement — the neurotransmitter dopamine. It is produced in large quantities not only in sex, eating