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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 […]

Robert Reich11.08.2026

Its costs and risks are gigantic. Its benefits, unproven. I’m going to make a proposal today that’s almost certain to get me consigned to the neo-Luddite dustbin of history. But first, let me lay out some facts. Rather than producing jobs, the U.S. economy actually lost 23,000 job in July, according to Bureau of Labor […]

Aleksey Bobrowski11.08.2026

This weekend, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent did something increasingly rare in Washington: He said what the administration appears to be trying to accomplish. Bessent, like Vice President J.D. Vance, has a talent for getting to the point. President Trump can be exhausting to listen to. Bessent is worth listening to. Consider the Strait of Hormuz […]

Andrey Vedyaev10.08.2026

June 15, 2026, marks the 112th anniversary of the birth of Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, one of the most remarkable figures of the Soviet political elite and the only head of the Soviet security services ever to rise to the leadership of both the Communist Party and the state. The circumstances surrounding the birth of the […]

Alexander Rimov09.08.2026

On July 22, 2026, Nikita Nikolayevich Zezin, a distinguished agricultural scientist and Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, died at the age of 67. The official cause of death was a heart attack. But his colleagues, friends, and public figures across Russia believe something far more sinister happened: they say Zezin was killed. […]

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