Time 09.October 2025
09.10.2025 Sergey Stankevich

Will Trump Give “Tomahawks” to Ukraine?

What do I think about the possible transfer of Tomahawk cruise missiles from the US to Ukraine? (1) They most likely won’t (probability over 90%) – there are numerous problems and risks, and no positive goal worth the risk that could realistically be achieved. There’s nothing to achieve. Kyiv’s “negotiating position” won’t be strengthened. On […]
2min 11
09.10.2025 Dmitri Drobnitsky

Trump vs Mayor of Chicago and Illinois Governor

Trump and the leaders of Chicago and Illinois Continue their battle in absentia. Each side believes the other should go to jail. Illinois Governor James Robert “J.B.” Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson are blocking the deployment of National Guard troops (including those from Texas) to the city. The troops are being held at a […]
2min 30
08.10.2025 Victor Aliyev

6 Lutheran Churches in Russia

Fifteen years of pastoral ministry have taught me a simple truth: being a Lutheran in Russia means constantly answering the question of what Russian Lutheranism is. There is no answer—there are six different answers, six paths that seem to lead to the same goal. The history of this diversity goes back centuries. The first Lutheran […]
7min 132
07.10.2025 Vladimir Morozov

Matviyenko is Striving to Reduce Russia’s Population

Irresponsible, unemployed citizens are draining regional budgets. And the question is how does this square with historically low unemployment? The head of the Federation Council Matviyenko and Moscow Mayor Sobyanin proposed reconsidering the approach to paying for health insurance for able-bodied unemployed Russians from regional budgets and considering a mechanism whereby such citizens would bear […]
3min 108
07.10.2025 Vladimir Golstein

The Pathetic State of EU

“What do you think of European Union”? — “I think it would a wonderful idea.” (Thanks, Mr. Gandhi for inspiration). The tendency is clear. The world is getting more and more united. By boats, trains, planes, rockets, internet. People trade, travel, transfer and do all sort of things to stay in touch. Yet, parallel to […]
2min 103

Review & Opinion


07.10.2025 Vladimir Morozov

Matviyenko is Striving to Reduce Russia’s Population

Irresponsible, unemployed citizens are draining regional budgets. And the question is how does this square with historically low unemployment? The head of the Federation Council Matviyenko and Moscow Mayor Sobyanin proposed reconsidering the approach to paying for health insurance for able-bodied unemployed Russians from regional budgets and considering a mechanism whereby such citizens would bear […]
3min 108

14.09.2025 Vladimir Golstein

Who Benefits from the Murder of Charlie Kirk?

I don’t know who benefits from the murder of Charlie Kirk, but it is clear who loses very big. A couple of days ago, the media and its sidekicks in politics were screaming about the Russian drones invading Polish airspace. Oh, horror! Some harmless decoy drones which ended up in Poland instead of Ukraine, provoked […]
1min 604

12.09.2025 Kirill Benediktov

What the Assassination of Charlie Kirk Means to Us?

Charlie Kirk (and the youthful part of MAGA that he represented) was one of those rare US politicians with whom it was possible to establish normal relations on the basis of the protection of traditional values. The fact that no steps in this direction have been taken so far (on our part) is due to […]
1min 642

11.09.2025 Tatiana Kasatkina

About the Author’s Voice in Dostoevsky’s Novels

The author’s voice is never equal to the character’s voice — but often sounds through it. In the case of Dostoevsky’s novels, everyone regularly wants one thing: to find where it is no longer the hero who speaks, but the author himself. The presupposition here must be absolutely unbreakable: where the Dostoevsky’s hero speaks, we […]
3min 443

04.09.2025 Vladimir Morozov

A Liberal Approach to Economic Sovereignty

The first decrees of the liberal Gaidar government in 1992 dealt a blow to those industries of the deceased USSR, which formed the basis of the technological leadership of the Soviet Union. The Americans demanded from their new vassals the immediate defeat of the aerospace industry, which was done. One of the first orders of […]
2min 733

03.09.2025 Robert Reich

AI is Our Real Future

Today I’d like to talk about AI, because it’s real and it’s coming at us at extraordinary speed. AI is just getting started. I live a few miles away from the heart of where it’s being devised, and that heart has no beat. I ask questions of the people working on it, who tell me […]
2min 858

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Culture & Art


26.06.2025 Yuri Chekalin

“Double Life” of Karolina Pavlova

Karolina Karlovna Pavlova, born Karolina Karlovna Jaenisch, was born in 1807 in Yaroslavl, but died in 1893 in Dresden, Germany. Pavlova’s removal from her native Russia was not merely an accident; she had fled the country of her birth four decades prior, having suffered years of ridicule and ostracization as a result of her literary […]
4min 1225

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, […]
4min 16769

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 3285

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 12511

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 17789

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, […]
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