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Andrey Vedyaev09.08.2026

On December 5, 2025, Yuri Petrovich Vlasov would have turned 90. To generations of sports fans, he was simply the strongest man on Earth – the 1960 Olympic champion, a four-time world champion, six-time European champion and five-time Soviet champion. He set 29 world records during his career. But Vlasov represented something bigger than physical […]

Kamil Askerkhanov08.08.2026

Several developments reported today are worth considering together. China is beginning to move larger volumes of physical gold from London to Hong Kong. At the same time, Hong Kong has launched a centralized gold-clearing and settlement system, Delivery Connect with the Shanghai Gold Exchange, and plans to expand its storage capacity to roughly 2,000 metric […]

Andrey Vedyaev07.08.2026

As the Cold War hardened into a global contest, intelligence became one of the principal arenas of confrontation. The Wolf Constellation Markus Wolf belonged to the generation of German anti-fascists who helped build and defend the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the first socialist state established on German soil. For four decades, these men and women […]

Yuri Chekalin06.08.2026

The man who survived both atomic bombings — Hiroshima and Nagasaki — was Tsutomu Yamaguchi (1916–2010). He is the most famous and officially recognized double hibakusha — a term meaning a person who was exposed to the atomic bombings twice. Hiroshima — August 6, 1945 Tsutomu Yamaguchi was an engineer working for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries […]

Dmitri Drobnitsky05.08.2026

America’s water infrastructure has become the latest reminder that in cyberspace, the greatest vulnerability is often not an adversary’s sophistication but one’s own complacency. A cyber incident affecting water and wastewater facilities in seven states has exposed weaknesses in the digital systems that underpin essential public services. Although speculation quickly turned to Iranian hackers, the […]

Vitaly Golovkov05.08.2026

An essay at the intersection of law, philosophy, and advanced technology exploring why everyday cruelty toward digital entities may erode the social contract faster than our legal systems can adapt. Public Abuse of Humanlike Forms Is a Threat to Humanity, Not to Machines Over the past few years, a peculiar and fleeting ritual has appeared […]

Vitaly Golovkov04.08.2026

‘Michael’: How legal constraints and corporate sterility undermined the biopic of the decade. The making of Michael, the long-awaited biographical film about the “King of Pop,” has become one of the most remarkable production stories in modern Hollywood. With a reported budget of $155 million, the project was conceived as the definitive cinematic portrait of […]

Yuri Chekalin04.08.2026

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 […]

Dmitry Litvinov03.08.2026

The 90th Anniversary of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War: the Republic’s response. The Republic’s Fatal Hesitation The attitude of the Republican government toward the approaching military uprising can be summed up in one sentence: they knew that a conspiracy was underway, but they underestimated its scale and the determination of those preparing it. […]

Yuri Chekalin02.08.2026

There are movie stars, there are action heroes, and then there is Arnold Schwarzenegger—the man millions simply know as the Terminator. On July 30, 2026, Schwarzenegger celebrated his 79th birthday, marking nearly eight decades of a life that has repeatedly defied expectations. His story reads less like a Hollywood screenplay than a modern myth. Born […]

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Russian Strongmen

Gold Is Moving Back Into the Settlement System

Markus Wolf and the Intelligence War of the Cold War

The Man Who Survived Both Atomic Bombings: Tsutomu Yamaguchi

America’s Water Systems Have a Cybersecurity Problem

The Law of Tomorrow

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

Russian Strongmen

Gold Is Moving Back Into the Settlement System

Markus Wolf and the Intelligence War of the Cold War

The Man Who Survived Both Atomic Bombings: Tsutomu Yamaguchi