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Robert Reich22.12.2025

How older humans greet each other in the cosmos. I was sitting in the waiting room of a doctor’s office last week when someone I hadn’t seen for many years came in. When he saw me, he said “Bob! How are you? You look great!” I don’t look great. Since I last saw him, my […]

Dmitry Litvinov21.12.2025

Some believe that the abdication of Emperor Nicholas II in March 1917 was the result of a “conspiracy of Duma deputies and generals.” This belief persists despite the fact that the February events in Petrograd have been studied in considerable detail by historical scholars. During World War I, Russia experienced a veritable boom in the […]

Vladimir Golstein19.12.2025

Dostoevsky’s Demons/Possessed is usually viewed as the satire of Russian nihilists of the 1860s, and their random acts of violence, including the murder of the student, named Ivanov, in Moscow. But Dostoevsky sets his novel not in Moscow or St. Petersburg, but in a small provincial town, and besides individual crimes and a set of […]

Natalia Tanshina19.12.2025

These issues interest me as both a teacher and a historian. Modern students read little, and only what’s available online. If a book isn’t online, it doesn’t exist for them. They hardly ever go to libraries. A separate issue is the use of AI. For an intelligent person, AI is a tool, facilitating information gathering, […]

Dmitri Drobnitsky18.12.2025

She was forced to defend herself, Trump said, “What’s the big deal?” The administration is baffled as to why Susie even started it. The rather glossy interview was parsed into individual quotes, and it became less funny. Not so much the publication itself, but subsequent commentators presented the matter as (a long-standing mainstream narrative) that […]

Kirill Benediktov18.12.2025

A New York Times article about a draft US-European peace plan allegedly developed in Berlin reads like yet another psyop in the fight to outsmart Trump. According to this article, two documents providing security guarantees to Kyiv were agreed upon in Berlin. They provide for strengthening the Ukrainian army, deploying European forces on Ukrainian territory, […]

Andrey Vedyaev17.12.2025

In early December, we celebrate many glorious anniversaries of our country’s intelligence officers and athletes, but this year is especially special. December 5th marked the 90th anniversary of the birth of Yuri Petrovich Vlasov, the strongest man on the planet, the 1960 Olympic champion, four-time world champion, six-time European champion, five-time USSR champion, and a […]

Vladimir Morozov16.12.2025

The Council of the European Union has decided to freeze Russian assets worth 210 billion rubles and euros for an indefinite period. This essentially amounts to an indefinite freeze or veiled confiscation of sovereign assets of a foreign state, worth approximately a quarter of a trillion US dollars. A statement from the Council of the […]

Vladimir Golstein16.12.2025

In the sixties, people were worrying about subliminal messages used for brainwashing. Fine, one can talk about it or write some journalistic exposes. But I suspect, that type of messaging requires some extra deliberation and sophistication, and therefore practiced less frequently than we imagine. What we have instead, and something much easier to accomplish, is not […]

Prot. Victor Harakas15.12.2025

There are different interpretations of the biblical materials. Jews of today often identify themselves with the Israel of ancient days. With the establishment of the Jewish state of Israel, it is not unexpected that Jews should see this as a fulfillment of the Old Testament covenants and promises. Some evangelical and fundamentalist Protestants make little […]

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