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Michael Mozzhechkov16.04.2024

A year before the opening of the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo, excitement for the event is low and ticket sales have been sluggish. There has also been criticism of construction delays and rising costs making construction difficult. At a press conference on Tuesday organized by the Japan World Expo 2025 Association, producers asked questions such as […]

Sergey Valov22.03.2024

The 2023 Hollywood strike resulted in a virtual victory for the Writers Guild of America (WGA) over the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) after reaching an agreement that neural networks would not be used by producers to write screenplays. If the screenwriters themselves use the capabilities of neural networks in the form […]

Sergey Stankevich11.08.2023

Oil still remains the main source of export earnings for the Russian Federation. Judging by the report of the International Energy Agency, the actual weighted average price for Russian Urals oil (export by sea) under contracts implemented in July 2023 broke through the price ceiling set by the G-7 countries. This price was $64.41 per […]

Sergey Stankevich09.05.2023

Commentators, out of habit, were flippant about yet another row in the US Congress over the national debt ceiling. They have a tradition. The Republicans refuse to raise the borrowing limit, the government runs out of money in all stash pockets, the parties noisily quarrel, then at the last moment before the default they find […]

Sergey Stankevich06.03.2023

Starting from February 5, 2023, the European Union has banned sea imports of Russian oil products. In this regard, Moscow is forced to look for other buyers for about a million barrels a day of diesel fuel, naphtha, etc., if it still wants to receive money for them. Deliveries of Russian fuel to third (non-European) […]

Sergey Stankevich02.02.2023

The US continues to try (apparently not very successful) to completely cut off, or at least hold China back in terms of access to advanced microelectronics. Especially to those integrated circuits that are used in the development of thermonuclear weapons and in their application. From time to time, it turns out that China has once […]

Yuri Shekhunov10.11.2022

The beginning of the second cold war. After the start of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine, aimed at its denazification and demilitarization, the United States and its allies, as if on command, began to turn away from Russia, impose the most severe economic sanctions on this country in the entire history of the […]

Nicholas Erin09.11.2022

Ottawa has ruled three Chinese groups to get rid of their stakes in Canadian critical mineral companies after intelligence authorities reviewed their money posed a threat to national security. The announcement mirrors a notable hardening of Canada’s stance towards China. In particular, the government instructed Sinomine (Hong Kong) Rare Metals Resources, Chengze Lithium International and […]

Yuri Shekhunov02.09.2022

In the history of civilization, many countries experienced both an unprecedented economic rise and a rapid decline. There are plenty of such examples. But I will give just one vivid example of how a small country in its history was able to make an incredible economic leap. Meet Japan – an amazing mysterious country in […]

Nicholas Erin31.08.2022

Japan`s government is considering restarting reactors and building next-generation new ones. The Japanese prime minister, Fumio Kishida (岸田文雄), announced he had administered a special government panel to research how “next-generation nuclear reactors equipped with new safety mechanisms” could help Japan in “green transformation” and achieving its goal of carbon neutrality by 2050. A move to look […]

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First Look at the Upcoming 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo

Can the “conditioned reflexes” of Neural Networks Ruin Creativity?

Breaking the Ceiliing

And the Business is Becoming More Serious

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Impossible to Close in an Open Global Market

Geopolitical Division of the World: does Europe Threaten to Split?

Chinese companies cut from holdings in Canadian critical mines

View From Outside: What is the Secret of Japanese Economic Miracles?

Japan Returns to Nuclear Plants

Olga Chekhova — the “Queen of the Nazi Reich” and Russian Spy

Do Animals have Conscious Thought?

Gavriil Popov — the First Post-Communist Mayor of Moscow

“Bulgakov — Get Out the Russian Chauvinist from Kyiv!”