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Yuri Chekalin07.09.2026

Mathias Rust: The Trial of the Man Who Landed a Plane Beside the Kremlin. On September 4, 1987, one of the most extraordinary trials of the late Soviet era came to an end in Moscow. Standing before the court was nineteen-year-old West German citizen Mathias Rust—a young man who, only months earlier, had accomplished something […]

Egor Yakovlev06.09.2026

Mark Twain was among the first American tourists to visit Russia. In 1867, the future literary giant not only traveled across the Russian Empire but also helped compose an official address to Tsar Alexander II—and even met the emperor in person at his Crimean residence in Livadia. It was an encounter between two worlds: a […]

Yaroslav Listov05.09.2026

How Yeltsin Gave Up Crimea: 35 Years Since Crimea’s Declaration of State Sovereignty. Anti-Soviet commentators often repeat the same accusation: “The terrible Communists gave Crimea to Ukraine.” Yet when the conversation turns to Boris Yeltsin and his policies between 1991 and 1996, an extraordinary silence sets in. And yet those were precisely the years when […]

Kamil Askerkhanov04.09.2026

We have grown too accustomed to measuring success by headline-grabbing agreements, new currencies, or yet another “anti-dollar” bank. But the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation was conceived primarily as a Eurasian security architecture—and that core function is once again taking center stage. As the old model of globalisation fractures, familiar supply chains are beginning to fray. Maritime […]

Yaroslav Listov04.09.2026

The founding of the First International coincided with a period of growing democratic and working-class movements across Europe. Yet the organization was dominated by various socialist currents hostile to Marxism, while the workers’ movement itself remained largely under the influence of bourgeois ideology. As Vladimir Lenin later observed, “Marxism was far from establishing its position […]

Alexey Savvateev03.09.2026

The fact that modern children read very little is hardly news. Everyone knows it. What fewer people fully appreciate, unfortunately, are the consequences. In primary school, weak reading skills can still be explained away: children are young, after all. But by the beginning of fifth grade—and increasingly thereafter—it becomes clear that a significant number of […]

Kamil Askerkhanov02.09.2026

Perhaps the most interesting question about artificial intelligence today is not what it can do, but how those in power intend to govern a system that is gradually beginning to make decisions in place of the people they appointed to make them. That last point deserves closer attention. For the problem of AI ultimately has […]

Yuri Chekalin01.09.2026

The rain had not stopped in Tokyo for four days. It did not fall in sheets. It simply hung in the air—a fine, sticky mist that blurred the neon signs of Shibuya and turned pedestrians beneath transparent umbrellas into slow-moving, sexless half-ghosts. In weather like this, the city lost its depth. It became flat, like […]

Yuri Chekalin31.08.2026

The story of Grigori Rasputin has long existed somewhere between history and legend. Hundreds of books have been written about him, countless myths have grown around his name, and “Rasputin” itself has become almost a byword. Far less is known, however, about the lives of his children. Yet the story of his eldest daughter, Maria, […]

Yuri Chekalin30.08.2026

Of all the languages I know, the Japanese word baishun—meaning prostitution—seems to me among the most evocative. There is something strangely melancholy and gentle in its sound, an echo of the feeling that sometimes overtakes us on a rainy day, when the damp scent of the earth makes us pause and think about eternal questions. […]

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A Hard Landing

Mark Twain Visits Tsar Alexander II

Yeltsin’s Betrayal of the Residents of Crimea

The SCO Summit Was Far from Fruitless

160 Years Since the Opening of the First Congress of the First International

How Schools Are Teaching Children Not to Read

AI and Power

The Cat

Rasputin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary Life of Maria Rasputin

Priestesses of Love

A Hard Landing

Mark Twain Visits Tsar Alexander II

Yeltsin’s Betrayal of the Residents of Crimea

The SCO Summit Was Far from Fruitless