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Dmitri Drobnitsky20.08.2026

Trump family firm partners with Chinese AI model provider as Washington presses allies to choose sides. A company partly owned by members of President Trump’s family is doing business with a Hong Kong-based provider of Chinese artificial intelligence models — even as the Trump administration prepares to urge dozens of countries to choose between the […]

Yuri Chekalin20.08.2026

On August 19, 1991, an event began that would enter history under a dry bureaucratic acronym: the GKChP — the State Committee on the State of Emergency. Thirty-five years later, it is easy to look back and see those events as inevitable. The Soviet Union, it seems, was already doomed; the August coup merely added […]

Yaroslav Listov19.08.2026

Why Deng Xiaoping Saved China While Yanaev Lost the Soviet Union History sometimes confronts states with remarkably similar tests. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the two largest socialist states in the world faced crises of their political and economic systems: economic hardship, growing public discontent, factional struggles within the ruling elites, and mounting […]

Michael Mozzhechkov19.08.2026

After World War II, Japan lay in ruins. Around 25% of the nation’s wealth had been destroyed, while industrial production had fallen to roughly one-tenth of its prewar level. Under these circumstances, Japan set out to catch up with the world’s leading economies—and too often, that drive for growth came at the expense of both […]

Yaroslav Listov17.08.2026

The 130th anniversary of the birth of Iona Emmanuilovich Yakir (1896–1937), a Red Army commander of the 1st rank and one of the most talented military leaders of the Russian Civil War, is being commemorated this year. Yakir was born in Chișinău into the family of a pharmacist. He studied chemistry at the University of […]

Dmitri Drobnitsky16.08.2026

Israel–UK relations have deteriorated sharply since Andy Burnham became Britain’s new prime minister. In a podcast interview with Israel’s Army Radio (Galei Tzahal), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched a broadside against Britain’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, and Britain more generally. “Islamic Republic of Britain” “Go to Britain today and you will see that […]

Kamil Askerkhanov15.08.2026

The EIA released some very interesting data yesterday. U.S. commercial crude inventories surged by 17.4 million barrels, reaching 424.4 million. The American Petroleum Institute had reported a 9.1 million-barrel increase the day before—already an unusually large move. But the real story emerges when you look beyond a single inventory number and follow the physical barrels. […]

Yaroslav Listov14.08.2026

On Aug. 13, 1871, Karl Paul Friedrich August Liebknecht was born in Leipzig—a man whose name would become a symbol of uncompromising struggle for freedom and justice. The son of Wilhelm Liebknecht, one of the founders of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), Karl absorbed socialist ideas from an early age. Trained as a […]

Alexey Savvateev13.08.2026

The most obvious argument made by technology enthusiasts today goes something like this: if AI really can do a better job of individualized instruction, why not bring that advantage into the mass classroom? Let the teacher conduct the lesson for the whole class while AI simultaneously adapts the learning process to each individual child: explain […]

Dmitri Drobnitsky11.08.2026

The more interesting question Is what happens to the Democrats. A Republican Party Leader Bets on November It is hardly unusual for the chairman of the Republican National Committee to argue with a Democratic strategist about who will win the November midterm elections. The more interesting question is this: Can the Democratic Party take power […]

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