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05.04.2025

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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22.03.2025

Vladimir Golstein

Ukraine is Obviously Much More than Ukraine

And it is much more that the war between two East European countries. The whole damn thing totally penetrated and perverted the western politics for the last eleven years, counting from 2014 Crimea. Endless propaganda and obfuscation as far as the information about the war was concerned. Endless misrepresentation of what was going on. Endless […]

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17.03.2025

Vladimir Golstein

Facts are Stubborn Thing

Apparently there is an Irish Proverb — a clear take on Roman ‘divide and conquer” — which says to the effect, if two neighbors are fighting, at least one of them was visited by a Brit another day. Of all people, Irish should know. And so should the rest of the world, which hardly has […]

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11.03.2025

Robert Reich

Why I’m So Short

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07.03.2025

Yuri Chekalin

The Forgotten People of Japan

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Vladimir Grigoryan

The Crisis of Marriage

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23.03.2025

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Great Scientists Who Believed in God

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Wolf Messing’s Magic is Immortal

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About the Publican and the Pharisee

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Nuclear War

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Sergey Stankevich

Is the Threat Gone?

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Vance: America Will Be Here

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How to Stop the Fire

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The Moscow-Washington Talks in a Gist

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Americans, rise up!

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03.04.2025

Alexander Palladin

Russo-Japanese War: Stalin’s Revanche

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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 […]

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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 […]

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25.10.2024

Alexander Palladin

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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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, […]

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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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Olga Makarova

Romance at the Tip of the Pencil

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Seppuku and Death in Japan

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Sincerity is Somewhere Inside Us

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