Reparations is a word that has migrated this year from history textbooks to news headlines. Recently, Ukraine demanded $300 billion in payments from Russia. Of course, this does not oblige anyone to anything, but it is all the more interesting to remember that in the past a rare peace treaty did without a list of financial conditions.For thousands of years, tribute, reparations, indemnities and other types of payments to the winners, in fact, were one of the goals of the war.Who and when demanded reparations — and what did they get in the end? How did reparations become the causes of new conflicts? And how to calculate the damage from the war in general? We analyze in the new edition of the "Editorial Office. Context"