  The last two decades have brought spectacular advances in astrophysics of
cosmic rays (CRs) and space- and ground-based astronomy. Launches of missions
that employ forefront detector technologies enabled measurements with large
effective areas, wide fields of view, and precision that we recently could not
even dream of. Meanwhile, interpretation of the individual slices of
information about the internal working of the Milky Way provided by such
experiments poses challenges to the traditional astrophysical models. New
mysteries arise in the composition and spectra of CR species at low and high
energies, in the energy range where we thought the main features were already
understood fairly well. This accumulation of unsolved puzzles highlights the
peculiarity of the current epoch and means that major breakthroughs are still
ahead. In my talk, I review the current state of direct measurements of CRs and
discuss their possible interpretations. Unfortunately, many important ideas and
publications are not discussed here due to the space limitations.
