22.05.2025 Yuri Chekalin

The Silence Before the Storm

Children dashed around in gleeful abandon, their tiny hands reaching for the showers of petals, rolling down the sidewalk or weaving through the legs of adults caught in nostalgic reveries. On this particular Saturday in late March, the sun cast a golden hue over Nikko Lane, illuminating the rows of houses adorned with vibrant azalea […]
9min 28
21.05.2025 Dmitri Drobnitsky

Telephone Conversation Between Putin and Trump

First impressions. And what’s next? 1). The negotiations were clearly not going smoothly. Trump desperately needs “at least something”, and preferably “peace at any cost”. Such a peace does not suit Russia and Putin, and this is a critical, vital impossibility. 2). Trump did not succumb to pressure from European “partners” (who are in fact […]
2min 36
21.05.2025 Sergey Stankevich

Trump Helps Putin Win

Bloomberg on the US President’s statement following talks with the Russian President. The publication notes that European leaders are “disappointed” that the US President “does not want to impose more sanctions” on Russia and “is abandoning his own ceasefire proposal.” In addition, European leaders fear that Trump will abandon his efforts to end the war, […]
2min 42
19.05.2025 Dmitri Drobnitsky

Former FBI Director Comey is Under Investigation

The basis was a social media post that could mean a call to assassinate the US president. Former FBI Director and longtime Trump foe James Comey posted a photo on his social media account from his vacation in the Seychelles, where the numbers “8647” were laid out in the sand using shells. Trump supporters believed […]
1min 73
18.05.2025 Vladimir Golstein

“The Road to Perdition”

Who Are the Guardians Who Lead us to … Perdition. Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov has this insightful episode. Drunken Fyodor, the father of the Karamazovs, embarks on one of his favorite diatribes against the church. They are dishonest, they trade in superstitions, they exploit the peasants, they make up stories, and they try to shame scoundrels […]
4min 98

Review & Opinion


21.05.2025 Sergey Stankevich

Trump Helps Putin Win

Bloomberg on the US President’s statement following talks with the Russian President. The publication notes that European leaders are “disappointed” that the US President “does not want to impose more sanctions” on Russia and “is abandoning his own ceasefire proposal.” In addition, European leaders fear that Trump will abandon his efforts to end the war, […]
2min 42

18.05.2025 Vladimir Golstein

“The Road to Perdition”

Who Are the Guardians Who Lead us to … Perdition. Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov has this insightful episode. Drunken Fyodor, the father of the Karamazovs, embarks on one of his favorite diatribes against the church. They are dishonest, they trade in superstitions, they exploit the peasants, they make up stories, and they try to shame scoundrels […]
4min 98

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 498

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 598

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 577

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 631

Galleries


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 1939

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 10745

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 7137

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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