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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. […]

Yuri Chekalin09.08.2026

Tucker Carlson Lays Out 10-Point Manifesto as MAGA Coalition Shows Signs of Strain. American journalist Tucker Carlson has unveiled a 10-point political manifesto that he says should serve as a foundation for “the changes to come” in the United States. His nearly two-hour address offered the clearest indication yet of growing tensions within the MAGA […]

Andrey Vedyaev09.08.2026

On December 5, 2025, Yuri Petrovich Vlasov would have turned 90. To generations of sports fans, he was simply the strongest man on Earth – the 1960 Olympic champion, a four-time world champion, six-time European champion and five-time Soviet champion. He set 29 world records during his career. But Vlasov represented something bigger than physical […]

Kamil Askerkhanov08.08.2026

Several developments reported today are worth considering together. China is beginning to move larger volumes of physical gold from London to Hong Kong. At the same time, Hong Kong has launched a centralized gold-clearing and settlement system, Delivery Connect with the Shanghai Gold Exchange, and plans to expand its storage capacity to roughly 2,000 metric […]

Andrey Vedyaev07.08.2026

As the Cold War hardened into a global contest, intelligence became one of the principal arenas of confrontation. The Wolf Constellation Markus Wolf belonged to the generation of German anti-fascists who helped build and defend the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the first socialist state established on German soil. For four decades, these men and women […]

Yuri Chekalin06.08.2026

The man who survived both atomic bombings — Hiroshima and Nagasaki — was Tsutomu Yamaguchi (1916–2010). He is the most famous and officially recognized double hibakusha — a term meaning a person who was exposed to the atomic bombings twice. Hiroshima — August 6, 1945 Tsutomu Yamaguchi was an engineer working for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries […]

Dmitri Drobnitsky05.08.2026

America’s water infrastructure has become the latest reminder that in cyberspace, the greatest vulnerability is often not an adversary’s sophistication but one’s own complacency. A cyber incident affecting water and wastewater facilities in seven states has exposed weaknesses in the digital systems that underpin essential public services. Although speculation quickly turned to Iranian hackers, the […]

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