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Robert Reich16.09.2026

When I get together with certain old friends, our first ritual is an “organ recital” — How’s your back? Knee? Heart? Hip? Shoulder? Eyesight? Hearing? Prostate? Digestion? Hemorrhoids? The recital can run — and ruin — an entire lunch. My Epilepsy I don’t normally write about what ails me because I can’t imagine anything more […]

Kamil Askerkhanov15.09.2026

On September 8, Britain’s Ministry of Defense told Parliament that the new nuclear-powered attack submarine HMS Agamemnon was completing the final stage of its sea trials and would proceed to further trials after being handed over to the Royal Navy. The name, however, was not chosen yesterday. The decision was made back in 2013 — […]

Dmitri Drobnitsky14.09.2026

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Whom he works for now is unclear. But his central message was unmistakable: the United States and the West need more drones—and more new technology. Dan Driscoll, who stepped down as U.S. Secretary of the Army on September 2, appeared at the conference of the so-called Yalta European Strategy in Kyiv alongside former Google CEO […]

Yuri Chekalin13.09.2026

I met her in a laundromat in Nakano at half past midnight. Not the most promising place to meet someone. But then, if you think about it, there really aren’t any promising places. People meet wherever they happen to be when they least want to meet anyone. I was fifty-four, and I’d been living alone […]

Kirill Benediktov11.09.2026

According to a popular myth, Americans have never fought a war on their own soil. In fact, they have—and quite spectacularly. In 1812, the United States declared war on the British Empire and came perilously close to losing it. Britain was fighting Napoleon at the same time—which tells you something about the scale of its […]

Dmitri Drobnitsky10.09.2026

The Republican Party is slowly shedding the original version of Trumpism. And Tucker Carlson has become toxic to political careers. J.D. Vance is not apologizing for his friendship with Carlson—at least not yet. But he is making it clear that he does not agree with him. Vice President J.D. Vance has increasingly been filling in […]

Kamil Askerkhanov08.09.2026

The Economist recently published a timely warning: America’s sovereign debt is massive, but Europe faces the true existential crisis. The most revealing aspect of this predicament, however, is not the raw figures. It is the question of why the structural cracks in the European architecture are suddenly erupting into the open right now. The underlying […]

Yuri Chekalin07.09.2026

A earthly platform. Do not grieve, Nor cry aloud. To all our wails he’s deaf. One of us has left for paradise— He’ll meet God there, for surely God exists. — V. Vysotsky Time flows, time rushes on, dragging us into its whirlpools, shattering the fragile little boats of our memories into splinters. Sometimes it […]

Egor Yakovlev06.09.2026

Mark Twain was among the first American tourists to visit Russia. In 1867, the future literary giant not only traveled across the Russian Empire but also helped compose an official address to Tsar Alexander II—and even met the emperor in person at his Crimean residence in Livadia. It was an encounter between two worlds: a […]

Yaroslav Listov05.09.2026

How Yeltsin Gave Up Crimea: 35 Years Since Crimea’s Declaration of State Sovereignty. Anti-Soviet commentators often repeat the same accusation: “The terrible Communists gave Crimea to Ukraine.” Yet when the conversation turns to Boris Yeltsin and his policies between 1991 and 1996, an extraordinary silence sets in. And yet those were precisely the years when […]

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Royal Navy and Trojan War Heros

Former US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll in Ukraine

The Last Train

See the Pentagon and Die

Vance Has a Problem: His Friendship with Tucker Carlson

Who Will Inherit Old Europe’s Tab?

Shards of My Memory

Mark Twain Visits Tsar Alexander II

Yeltsin’s Betrayal of the Residents of Crimea

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Royal Navy and Trojan War Heros

Former US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll in Ukraine

The Cheka Was Born Before the Revolution