Time 18.January 2025
17.01.2025 Yuri Chekalin

Food, Culture, Economy. Part 1.

After World War II, Japan imported many different ideas from America. One of them was that “a bread diet is better for health.” At that time, it was widely advertised that eating rice makes people stupid. Here is what Japanese scientists, supported even by the Japanese government, claimed at the time: “…The character of rice […]
3min 5146
16.01.2025 Egor Yakovlev

Pushkin on Life and Death of Griboyedov

“Married the woman he loved, wrote a great play, died in battle“, – Pushkin wrote about Griboyedov’s enviable fate. Russian writer, playwright, linguist, historian and orientalist, author of the play “Woe from Wit”, Alexander Sergeevich Griboyedov was born 230 years ago. A vivid description of Griboyedov was given by his contemporary Alexander Pushkin. In “Journey […]
3min 3308
15.01.2025 Yuri Chekalin

Who Was The Prototype Of Brigade Commander Serplin?

Fyodor Fyodorovich Serpilin, the main character of Konstantin Simonov’s trilogy “The Living and the Dead”, was a composite image. In him, one could guess the features and destinies of the legendary generals-commanders Alexander Gorbatov and Ivan Grishin, but the main prototype was Colonel Semyon Fyodorovich Kutepov, whom the writer Simonov (at that time – a […]
1min 1086
14.01.2025 Dmitri Drobnitsky

Stephen vs Elon: Former Strategies vs New Ally

Stephen Bannon is increasingly angry with Elon Musk, calling him “evil” and “racist” and threatening to expel him from the administration of Donald Trump. At first, everything was harmless. Bannon admitted that he and Musk disagreed “on many, if not all” political issues, but he believed that the head of SpaceX was extremely useful, firstly, […]
3min 4482

Gorbachev As a Reincarnated Pontius Pilate

On January 7, 1991, I was discussing current issues with Valery Ivanovich Boldin, Chief of Staff of the USSR President, when a red bulb lit up at his desk signaling a phone call from Mikhail Gorbachev. On such occasions visitors had to leave Boldin’s office immediately but Valery Ivanovich picked up the receiver with one […]
6min 7674

Review & Opinion


17.12.2024 Sergey Stankevich

Maybe it’s a Good Thing

Maybe it’s a good thing that the Maidan epic in Georgia — senseless and merciless — has dragged on for so long. Let the organizers use everything. Absolutely everything. They will show themselves from all sides. They burned Christian symbols. They ruined the children’s holiday of lighting the main New Year’s tree in Tbilisi. Now […]
2min 902

10.12.2024 Sergey Berezhnoy

Exodus from Syria

In the morning, a call from a Syrian friend: that’s it, Damascus has fallen. What Marat warned about has happened. They didn’t listen. Now wait for them to come to you. Not as guests — as hosts. The worst thing is the inability to help. The inability to do anything. I turned on the Internet. […]
2min 2173

02.12.2024 Lucy Dickerson

Biden is a Man of His Word

Papa Biden has granted a presidential pardon to his son Biden Jr., who was supposed to be sentenced on December 12 and 16 in two court cases that he lost — tax evasion and filing false information when purchasing a firearm. In one case, the term could theoretically be up to 17 years, in the […]
3min 16556

10.11.2024 Vladimir Golstein

“Deplorables” in the US

I Felt it First in Russian Speaking Community in the US. The drastic increase in hatred: political hatred that quickly became personal. Since 2014, the community became split. And ‘split” does not even cover the extend of it. Broken up, with one part canceling another. How dare they support Russia? How dare they speak the […]
2min 842

27.10.2024 Sergey Stankevich

A Missile Precedent Has Been Created with Major Consequences

Israel has struck ballistic missile production sites in Iran. Israel’s key allies — the US, Britain, Germany, France — have recognized this step as legitimate and adequate. Thus, an important geopolitical precedent has been de facto established. Missiles aimed at Israel can take off from the Gaza Strip, from Yemen, Lebanon or Syria. People in […]
1min 595

17.10.2024 Kirill Benediktov

Union State of Russia, Belarus and the DPRK

The text of the Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between the Russian Federation and the DPRK contains Article 4 (for which, probably, everything was organized): “If one of the Parties is subjected to an armed attack by any state or several states and thus finds itself in a state of war, the other Party will […]
2min 2028

Galleries


Culture & Art


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 763

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 […]
9min 9315

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 4270

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, […]
2min 8566

15.07.2023 Olga Makarova

Romance at the Tip of the Pencil

Animated Short Film “THOUGHT OF YOU” is a delightful graphic novel with images that look like they’ve stepped out of the pages of an artist’s album and came to life. A great way to show the experience and dreams of each character is simply through a pencil drawing that comes to life without distracting details. […]
2min 8673

13.04.2023 Yuri Chekalin

Seppuku and Death in Japan

“Where does all this madness about hara-kiri, bushido come from…” /From one Russian radio broadcast./ “… We must win honestly, We must live in the bright light, They will compose songs about us, Heaven will be hot…” “Sport Heroes”    “…Who knows what awaits us?  Who knows what will happen?  And will be strong  And […]
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Food, Culture, Economy. Part 1.

After World War II, Japan imported many different ideas from America. One of them was that “a bread diet is better for health.” At that time, it was widely advertised that eating rice makes people stupid. Here is what Japanese scientists, supported even by the Japanese government, claimed at the time: “…The character of rice […]

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