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09.11.2026 Yuri Chekalin

Dostoevsky’s Paradoxes of Goodness

What makes someone a good person? Their intentions? Their actions? Their capacity to empathize with suffering? Or their desire to make the world a better place? At first glance, the answer seems obvious. Good people help others, wish no one harm, and try to follow their conscience. But open a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, and […]
10min 16
Economics & BusinessPopular
09.11.2026 Kamil Askerkhanov

The Great Financial Reshuffle

Signs of mounting stress in the global financial system are becoming increasingly apparent. And recent events raise a familiar question: are we approaching a crisis whose consequences will be measured not merely in stock market losses, but in a massive redistribution of ownership? On October 30, the Nasdaq fell 2.86%, the semiconductor index plunged 7.2%, […]
9min 405
PopularMemories & Conversations
08.11.2026 Yuri Chekalin

The Last Stop. Part Two.

The rain went on all week It didn’t come down in sheets. It hung in the air, blurring the signs and turning people into ghosts. I went to work and explained to managers the difference between the Present Perfect and the Past Simple. One describes something that’s over but still matters. The other describes something […]
9min 378
PopularMemories & Conversations
07.11.2026 Yuri Chekalin

The Last Stop. Part I

“Flowers fade, and who can remain in this world forever? Today we cross the mountains of existence and will no longer be intoxicated by empty dreams.” — Iroha-uta (Heian period) The train was twenty minutes late. In Tokyo, that’s an event. The announcer apologized twice—once in Japanese, once in English—after which everyone on the platform […]
12min 448
Politics & ArmyPopular
06.11.2026 Kamil Askerkhanov

Fault Lines

Developments in Poland are taking an increasingly intriguing turn. On October 30, an acute constitutional crisis erupted in Warsaw. Following the suspension of Constitutional Tribunal President Bogdan Święczkowski and his deputy, substantial police forces were deployed around the court. Protests and clashes followed, with several people detained. President Karol Nawrocki cut short his flight to […]
2min 343

News

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24.10.2026 Sergey Stankevich

The Diesel Deal Gets Moving

2min 1703
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20.10.2026 Dmitri Drobnitsky

Who Is Really Calling the Shots?

3min 1242
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01.10.2026 Dmitri Drobnitsky

Texas Declares a Diesel Emergency

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20.08.2026 Dmitri Drobnitsky

Trump is Interested in Chinese AI

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16.08.2026 Dmitri Drobnitsky

Netanyahu Calls Britain an “Islamic Country with Nuclear Weapons”

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05.08.2026 Dmitri Drobnitsky

America’s Water Systems Have a Cybersecurity Problem

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23.07.2026 Alexander Rimov

Silicone Miss Sally: AI Robot Teacher

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16.07.2026 Dmitri Drobnitsky

New York to Freeze AI Data Center Construction

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05.11.2026 Vladimir Golstein

License to Hate

Dostoevsky was a deeply moral man. So are many of his characters, at least in their own eyes. Yet they murder, contemplate murder, poison other people’s minds, and destroy themselves and others. Raskolnikov, Ivan Karamazov, Stavrogin, Kirillov… Dostoevsky was forever asking what makes people who possess a moral conscience commit godless acts. Ideology? Nihilism? Loss […]
5min 216
Review & OpinionPopular
31.10.2026 Kamil Askerkhanov

The Gas Producers Strike Back

Russia is sketching out a new energy order. Europe may not like it. At the Gas Exporting Countries Forum summit in Moscow, Vladimir Putin outlined what could become a solution to one of the biggest challenges facing the world’s energy producers: their dependence on transportation networks, transit routes, and the bargaining power of major buyers. […]
2min 558
Review & OpinionPopular
30.10.2026 Robert Reich

The Republicans’ Closing Argument

The Republican Party no longer has anything constructive to say about anything or anyone, so what is its closing argument in the 2026 midterm elections? Hate, fear, and bigotry. It’s all they have On Sunday, Trump claimed that if Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed won, he’d “invite hordes of jihadis to our shores.” […]
4min 1666
PopularReview & Opinion
09.10.2026 Vladimir Golstein

The Death of Anglo Influence

What is Going on in Germany, and is this the Waning of Anglo-American Influence? German elite had been successfully colonized by English. English language, English thinking, English rhetoric, English sensitivity, English/American Political Correctness and simplifying political discourse. The result of this colonizing is obvious as are its goals — ever since the war with Napoleon […]
6min 837
Review & OpinionPopular
04.10.2026 Kirill Benediktov

Will November Be a Democratic Triumph?

Even if Democrats do prevail in November’s midterm elections, as most analysts now predict, their victory may yield fewer advantages than they expect. That is the argument advanced by Michael Barone, a senior political analyst at the Washington Examiner and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, in a recent essay titled “Down the Home […]
7min 1183
Review & OpinionPopular
02.10.2026 Kamil Askerkhanov

France Is Burning. But Who Stands to Gain?

What is happening in France has already grown into something larger than yet another confrontation between high-school and university students and the education authorities. The protests began with demands that were both familiar and readily understandable: teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms, and deteriorating school infrastructure. Yet within days, the unrest spread across the country and began […]
7min 1170

Society & Philosophy

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30.08.2026 Yuri Chekalin

Priestesses of Love

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Society & Philosophy
27.08.2026 Yuri Chekalin

Japanese Communism: A Century of Revolution, Underground Struggle, and Parliamentary Politics

22min 1831
Society & PhilosophyPopular
29.07.2026 Yuri Chekalin

Political Myths: Authority and Legitimacy (Part.11)

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Religion & Beliefs

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24.09.2026 Victor Aliyev

Martin Luther is the Charismatic Leader of the Printing Age

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05.07.2026

The Pope Excommunicates the Bishops of the Society of Saint Pius X

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War and Christianity

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The Spiritual Dangers of AI. Part II

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The Spiritual Dangers of AI. Part I.

Politics & Army

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06.11.2026 Kamil Askerkhanov

Fault Lines

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04.11.2026

The Anatomy of the Midterm Election of 2026

25.10.2026

The sanctions that were never meant to bite

13.10.2026

Who Powers Europe?

12.10.2026

A Thaw Too Late?

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02.11.2026 Yaroslav Listov

Stalin’s Second Burial

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An Aristocrat of Espionage

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The Whirlwind Front

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The Cheka Was Born Before the Revolution

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A Hard Landing

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Dostoevsky’s Paradoxes of Goodness

What makes someone a good person? Their intentions? Their actions? Their capacity to empathize with suffering? Or their desire to make the world a better place? At first glance, the answer seems obvious. Good people help others, wish no one harm, and try to follow their conscience. But open a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, and […]
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Madama Butterfly and the Japan of the Western Imagination

It is fascinating that Madama Butterfly, or Cio-Cio-San, has long been regarded as one of the most “Japanese” of European operas. Yet, in reality, it tells us far more about Western perceptions of Japan at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries than about Japan itself. The same can be said, in a different […]
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Perennial Relevance of Dostoevsky

What makes Dostoevsky forever relevant is his dialectical approach to the most pressing issues of human predicament. Only in the eyes of the extremely naïve thinkers — doesn’t matter if they come from the right, left or center the issues that face modern day materialistic capitalist societies can be quantified, computerized, and resolved. For the […]
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Ralph Fiennes the Master of the “Silent Explosion” Phenomenon

Ralph Fiennes always follows his own rules. Looking at his performance — whether in the Lord’s robes or in a haute couture suit, the viewer inevitably catches a cognitive dissonance. We expect a monster, but we get an abyss of charisma, the “gold standard” of cinematic noir, which is impossible (and, honestly, one does not […]
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“Demons”: Film Adaptation or Interpretation?

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Verdict for “Mercy” on 90 Minutes of Legal Action

As a former federal judge who has handed down sentences for serious felonies and aggravated assaults, I view this on-screen trial not as a detective thriller, but as a very gripping legal drama. I apologize in advance to readers for paying little attention to the visual effects and dynamics, which are top-notch in this work. […]
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“Master and Commander”

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Revolutionary of Russian Theater: Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko

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