Sergey Stankevich

Sergey Stankevich05.06.2024

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The Shangri La Dialogue has opened, an annual intergovernmental forum on security held by the independent think tank International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). The forum’s name is taken from a hotel in Singapore where meetings have been held since 2002. Defense ministers, permanent heads of ministries and other military leaders of 28 Asia-Pacific countries […]

Sergey Stankevich24.05.2024

Ukrainian politicians fear that returned soldiers will refute stories of torture in Russian captivity. Ukraine has not taken back 500 of its military personnel as part of a prisoner exchange for several months, said Tatyana Moskalkova, Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia. “For several months it has not been possible to get Ukraine to take […]

Sergey Stankevich24.04.2024

April 19, 2024, an international group of biologists and philosophers signed the landmark New York Declaration, which declares that animals are conscious. The paper suggests consciousness in birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and fish, as well as in many invertebrates such as insects, crustaceans and cephalopods. The New York Declaration is based on recent discoveries that […]

Sergey Stankevich24.04.2024

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34 years ago the democrats took power in Moscow. On April 20, 1990, Gavriil Popov was elected chairman of the Moscow City Council of People’s Deputies. For the first time in Soviet history, the capital of the USSR was headed not by a party official, but by a scientist-economist. On April 21, Sergei Stankevich became […]

Sergey Stankevich15.04.2024

The Great Flood in Moscow took place in April 1908. In the old, ancient times, floods also regularly occurred in Moscow: once every 30-40 years, the waters of the Moskva River, Yauza, Neglinka and small rivers broke out of the banks and walked through the streets of the capital. The rise in water level from […]

Sergey Stankevich06.04.2024

Our observer Sergei Stankevich about the famous Russian politician: “An outstanding charismatic politician, a model populist. Extraordinary speaking and acting talent. Under him, the party he created performed the most important function: it gathered the lion’s share of the protest electorate and tied it to the political system. At the same time leading protestors away […]

Sergey Stankevich03.12.2023

Henry Kissinger died at the enviable age of 100 at his home in Kent, Connecticut. Until his last breath he was active, wise and significant. Back in July, Xi Jinping himself received him as a guest of honor in Beijing. He met regularly with Joe Biden, as well as with 11 previous US presidents. None […]

Sergey Stankevich16.10.2023

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was forced to wait all night for a meeting with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, during a visit to the kingdom, The Washington Post writes. In Riyadh, the Saudi ruler made Blinken wait several hours for a meeting that was supposed to take […]

Sergey Stankevich10.10.2023

The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting behind closed doors amid the war between Israel and the Gaza Strip, but failed to reach the unanimity needed to pass a joint statement or resolution. Already, at least 1,100 people have been killed since the Hamas terrorist group, which controls the Gaza Strip, launched an offensive […]

Sergey Stankevich02.10.2023

I previously read the book by Sergei Shargunov, which formed the basis of the film. The book is larger and deeper, which is only natural. The film itself was shot professionally and conscientiously. Of course, this is not a document, although some shots almost document the chronicle. The main advantage of the film: this is […]

Zelensky in Singapore

Indefferent Motherland

Do Animals have Conscious Thought?

Gavriil Popov — the First Post-Communist Mayor of Moscow

The Great Flood in Moscow

Two years ago passed away Vladimir Zhirinovsky

Who Was After All Mr. Kissinger?

Into a New World Order — With a New Protocol

The Hamas Attack Could Change Everything in the World

Russian Civil War of 1993

The Michael Jackson Biopic is Missing its Most Controversial Story

Madama Butterfly and the Japan of the Western Imagination

The Spanish Civil War at 90: the Republic’s Response

Terminator Is about 80 Years Old