Recently. Our Era. 2021-2025 (with author's autograph)

This is the thirteenth volume in a series of albums prepared by Russian journalist and television presenter Leonid Parfyonov. Previously, in the author's homeland, the project was very successful and received several professional awards, but this book is the first to be published abroad, in Latvia, by the MNOGOKNIG publishing house.

Of course, among the events, people, and phenomena of the reviewed years, many are related to the aggression against Ukraine, and in present-day Russia, opinions on this that differ from the official ones are prohibited. Moreover, the world of the early 2020s was shaken by other large-scale conflicts - the Taliban's victory in Afghanistan, the war between Hamas and Israel, the campaign against Iran's nuclear program, which are also detailed in the book. But the signature method of «Recently» places in the mosaic of the volume also labuba and ozempic, «The Word of a Guy» and quadricopters, the return of Trump and Kadysheva, NFTs and the robbery of the Louvre, artificial intelligence and the competition between «Barbie» and «Oppenheimer», «cancellation culture» and the boom of electric scooters, and many other signs of the era familiar to every contemporary.

The previous format of the publication is fully preserved, and 242 phenomena of the five-year period are accompanied by over 580 illustrations - photographs from leading world agencies, posters, caricatures, frames from films and series selected by the author.

You can't tear yourself away from Parfyonov's witty essays - and brilliant illustrations - you find yourself, so to speak, frozen over the book with a fork. Lev Danilkin, writer and critic.

Once we open this colorful album, we are doomed to flip through it to the very end, unable to tear ourselves away and engage in anything else. Galina Yuzefovich, literary critic