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Yaroslav Listov02.11.2026

How Khrushchev orchestrated the secret removal of Stalin’s remains from Lenin’s Mausoleum in 1961. We loved Stalin with all our hearts. What faith have we been given in return? We believed, while our faith was being destroyed… Yet life without belief is three times harder still, And “Stalin is our glory in battle” We sang […]

Yuri Chekalin31.10.2026

Morita-san first appeared near Yoyogi Park in late April. He wore yellow pants, a green jacket, enormous red shoes, and a round nose that, for some reason, kept falling off. Apparently, the nose was the only part of his costume with a mind of its own. Morita would try to put it back on. The […]

Kamil Askerkhanov31.10.2026

Russia is sketching out a new energy order. Europe may not like it. At the Gas Exporting Countries Forum summit in Moscow, Vladimir Putin outlined what could become a solution to one of the biggest challenges facing the world’s energy producers: their dependence on transportation networks, transit routes, and the bargaining power of major buyers. […]

Robert Reich30.10.2026

The Republican Party no longer has anything constructive to say about anything or anyone, so what is its closing argument in the 2026 midterm elections? Hate, fear, and bigotry. It’s all they have On Sunday, Trump claimed that if Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed won, he’d “invite hordes of jihadis to our shores.” […]

Kamil Askerkhanov29.10.2026

With so much contradictory information circulating about the October 27 telephone conversation between Finnish President Alexander Stubb, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, a few things are worth clarifying. First, Stubb and Støre were not speaking on behalf of the European Union. Not in the slightest. The official statement went […]

Michael Demurin28.10.2026

To understand the “Dmitriev channel” in Russia’s relations with the United States, it is worth looking back at the Soviet Union’s response to the Marshall Plan. The publicly reported results of Kirill Dmitriev’s visit to the United States reveal little that is fundamentally new. Yet the issues discussed, and the terms in which they were […]

Kamil Askerkhanov27.10.2026

Part I. History offers some guidance. After the crash of 1929 and the banking crisis that followed, America’s economic system underwent a radical transformation. The state took on a much more active role in economic life. In 1933 Roosevelt’s administration created the Tennessee Valley Authority, a state-owned corporation charged with developing the energy and infrastructure […]

Kamil Askerkhanov26.10.2026

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In recent remarks by Donald Trump and Larry Fink, the boss of BlackRock, there is a striking contradiction—one that, in my view, ought to be read in the context of a looming global financial and structural economic crisis. Indeed, what is now taking shape increasingly resembles the sort of dynamics that preceded the Great Depression […]

Dmitri Drobnitsky25.10.2026

President Donald Trump’s temporary suspension of the so-called Graham sanctions has provoked outrage in Congress. In doing so, America’s legislators have displayed a familiar parliamentary vice: collective irresponsibility. Mr Trump invoked the waiver provisions of the sanctions law named after the late Senator Lindsey Graham. Such provisions are hardly unusual in American sanctions legislation. The […]

Yuri Chekalin24.10.2026

Time moved differently here than in Shinjuku, where it raced along on roller skates, or in quiet Nakano, which always seemed to have been pressed flat with an iron. Ikebukuro was like the worn pocket of a fall coat, where you might find someone else’s fifty-yen coin, a movie ticket from five days ago, and […]

Stalin’s Second Burial

The Clown at Meiji Shrine

The Gas Producers Strike Back

The Republicans’ Closing Argument

Every Nation for Itself—or the Rat Race Begins

Russia’s American Temptation

Who will own the digital world after the bust? Part II.

Who will own the digital world after the bust? Part I.

The sanctions that were never meant to bite

The Narrow Door

Stalin’s Second Burial

The Clown at Meiji Shrine

The Gas Producers Strike Back

The Republicans’ Closing Argument