15.04.2025 Yuri Chekalin

Bread Instead of Rice

Despite the decision of the Japanese government to release additional volumes of rice from strategic reserves — after April 21 of this year, the third batch of 100 thousand tons will be put into circulation — retail prices for it remain high. At the same time, grain prices on the world market are falling, as […]
1min 174
13.04.2025 Tony Rocchi

Political Terrorism in its Purest Form: Terrorism in the Russian Empire

When we try to determine the place of terrorism in the Russian Empire between 1866-1911 in the history of global terrorism, terrorism in Russia takes on a new dimension of being terrorism in its purest form. More and more, scholars and publicists group terrorists under the general category of “non-state armed actors” and call terrorism […]
4min 1638

Everything Is Relative in This World, And Hockey Is No Exception

A few days ago Washington Capitals forward Alexander Ovechkin broke the long-standing NHL record for goals scored, eclipsing the mark the legendary Wayne Gretzky set more than 25 years ago. By doing so Ovechkin generated an incredible surge of jubilation by millions of Russians. Personally, I can’t remember anything like that since the times when […]
6min 227
11.04.2025 Yuri Chekalin

The Art of Tying Up

The art of tying up — hojojutsu — is one of the oldest in the arsenal of Japanese martial arts. Hojojutsu masters, who still exist today, can quickly and effectively tie up an opponent so that not only will he not be able to free himself, but every unnecessary movement will cause him pain, or […]
13min 573
09.04.2025 Robert Reich

In Unity, There’s Strength to Confront Trump

In unity, there’s strength to confront Trump. In disunity, cowardice. Why didn’t the nation’s top 20 law firms sign a friend-of-the-court brief against Trump’s vindictive executive orders? What their associates, coming associates, and law school deans ought to do. Let me first congratulate the 504 law firms that have thrown their support behind Perkins Coie […]
4min 223

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09.04.2025 Robert Reich

In Unity, There’s Strength to Confront Trump

In unity, there’s strength to confront Trump. In disunity, cowardice. Why didn’t the nation’s top 20 law firms sign a friend-of-the-court brief against Trump’s vindictive executive orders? What their associates, coming associates, and law school deans ought to do. Let me first congratulate the 504 law firms that have thrown their support behind Perkins Coie […]
4min 223

06.04.2025 Natalia Tanshina

Has Macron Forgotten the Fate of Nazi Puppet Petain?

The policy of French President Macron, who sometimes recalls the Resistance movement, is in fact completely analogous to the policy of Marshal Petain and those Frenchmen who participated in the war against the USSR! It is characteristic that their mobilization took place under the traditional slogans of the fight against Bolshevism and for a “new […]
3min 297

About the Marshall Plan

You see, I heard this nonsense about the Marshall Plan and the like when they were breaking up the USSR, inspiring Georgia, ruining Ukraine. I have already written about this, but the topic seems to be eternal. The enthusiasts just can’t calm down — they continue to pester, and I can’t find the strength to […]
5min 306

04.04.2025 Robert Reich

Additional Small Reasons for Modest Optimism

In many ways this was another horrific week. Like a terrible hurricane, the Trump dictatorship is sweeping more people into its maw while further destroying our public institutions and wrecking what’s left of our civil norms. Yet this week also featured 11 reasons for modest optimism: 1. Wisconsin Supreme Court vote Despite Elon Musk’s hysterical […]
12min 296

01.04.2025 Robert Reich

It Would All Be Comic if Not So Tragic

The past week has been another horror show, and I share your anxiety and sleeplessness. But the past week also reveals the utter incompetence of Trump and his regime. Even The Wall Street Journal criticized Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for trying to dismiss “Signalgate” as a hoax, calls Trump negotiator Steve Witkoff “out of his […]
3min 348

25.03.2025 Vladimir Golstein

Naive Zelensky Believes in Europe

In his War and Peace, Tolstoy has an amazing image of Napoleon, as the French army is being kicked out of Russia. Tolstoy compares him to a child sitting deep in a horse carriage, who pulls the curtain strings and thinks that these actions direct the horse. For Tolstoy, Napoleon’s invasion had unleashed the forces, […]
3min 455

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Culture & Art


16.02.2025 Egor Sennikov

The Last Mask of the Great Actor

I often think about what it is like to create something with full effort, being on the threshold of death. We are all doomed to it, of course, but we drown out thoughts about it with the vanity of life, work and idleness, feelings and entertainment. But when it has already knocked on the door, […]
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21.01.2025 Yuri Chekalin

How Did the Statue of Liberty Appear in New York?

The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to go to Egypt. It was created as a gift to commemorate the construction of the Suez Canal by the French. However, the Egyptians refused the gift, and France decided to give the statue to America. In August 1875, the creation of the Franco-American Union was announced. The […]
1min 1686

28.10.2024 Lada Zhinova

Chekhov and Emptiness: Why Do the Japanese Love to Read and Stage Chekhov?

December 1945. Japan. The war has just ended. In the center of Tokyo, in the half-destroyed building of the Yurakuza Theater, the first post-war premiere is Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard. The play was last shown in 1937. Then it was directed by Aoyama Sugisaku, who 8 years later would return to Chekhov again, gathering all […]
11min 10512

My Tribute To Mark Twain

At the end of January 1985, the 35th boxing match between the USSR and USA teams took place in Reno, Nevada. In connection with this, I visited this city, where I spent several days in the company of our boxing team. Before the match, the organizers of the competition arranged for us a bus tour […]
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02.09.2024 Yuri Chekalin

The real Crocodile Dundee

The prototype of “Crocodile Dundee” was a Latvian. But there is a nuance… You’ve probably watched the multi-episode comedy blockbuster “Crocodile Dundee” with the charming Australian comedian Paul Hogan in the lead role. A fearless crocodile hunter from the Australian outback charms an American reporter, defeats bad guys and travels through the megalopolises of America, […]
3min 6795

09.08.2023 Olga Makarova

Naughty Children: Nuisance or Blessing

Once in a while, every parent, to one degree or another, faces the disobedience of their child. In France in the 60s, even a kid named Nicolas was popular — a character in children’s illustrated books, on which more than one generation of French grew up. He is curious and restless, mischievous but a dreamer, […]
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Bread Instead of Rice

Despite the decision of the Japanese government to release additional volumes of rice from strategic reserves — after April 21 of this year, the third batch of 100 thousand tons will be put into circulation — retail prices for it remain high. At the same time, grain prices on the world market are falling, as […]

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