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Robert Reich25.05.2026

Robbie was the kindest person I ever knew. I met him in our dormitory the day we entered college in 1964. He saw me struggling to carry my big luggage crates up the two flights of stairs to my dorm room and, without saying a word, grabbed one and hauled it to the second floor. […]

Sergey Stankevich24.05.2026

Marine Le Pen, chair of the National Rally faction in the French National Assembly, plans to change the country if she comes to power in the 2027 elections. She believes Paris should withdraw from NATO’s Joint Military Command. “I believe we should withdraw from NATO’s Joint Military Command,” Le Pen said on BFM-TV. At the […]

Dmitri Drobnitsky23.05.2026

America First — Republicans have sided with the rebellious Thomas Massie, who was attacked by Trump for criticizing the war in Iran. Tucker Carlson has joined the fray. Lauren Boebert of Colorado has become the latest Republican to fall out of favor with Trump. She received her share of “happiness” for supporting Thomas Massie, a […]

Robert Reich22.05.2026

Have we given up on a central goal we sought to achieve more than two centuries ago? I was born just after the end of World War II. The first half of the 20th century marked a particularly difficult, violent era. But the 21st century so far has been, well, one trauma after another. It […]

Vitaly Golovkov21.05.2026

This is one of the “hottest” and most tangled topics in modern law. The problem is that the legal machinery simply cannot keep up with the speed of neural network development. If we break everything down, we run into three fundamental deadlocks: 1. The prompt as an “instruction” rather than an “object of art.” From […]

Dmitri Drobnitsky14.05.2026

Netanyahu either promised or threatened that Israel would “get off” US military aid by 2028. The Israeli Prime Minister’s key statement was his unwillingness to “wait for the next Congress.” Benjamin Netanyahu gave a rather interesting interview to the CBS program “60 Minutes.” While acknowledging that Israel receives military aid from the US, he limited […]

Alexander Palladin13.05.2026

On May 13th, 1991, an assassination attempt was made on Pope John Paul II in the Vatican. He was wounded with pistol shots by Mehmet Ali Ağca, member of the Turkish “Grey Wolves” group of nationalists. Previously, Ağca killed Agdi Ipekçi, editor of Turkey’s major newspaper Milliyet. He was caught and convicted, but managed to […]

Robert Reich12.05.2026

The Supreme Court’s shameful decision last Wednesday released a flood of memories — and worse. When I learned what Samuel Alito and the other Republican appointees to the Supreme Court did to the Voting Rights Act last week, I thought of Mickey. I met Mickey the summer after third grade. His family had rented one […]

Alexander Palladin12.05.2026

Ted Turner, founder of CNN, has died in the United States at the age of 87. While working in Washington, D. C. in 1980s as Bureau Chief of Izvestia I took part in half a dozen talk shows at CNN Crossfire program, debating Soviet-American relations with US politicians, journalists, and political scientists. Turner was one […]

Yuri Chekalin08.05.2026

Memory, Meaning, and Modern Relevance. Victory Day, observed on May 8 or May 9 depending on the country, marks the end of World War II in Europe and the defeat of Nazi Germany. It is one of the most significant commemorations in modern history, symbolizing not only military triumph but also the resilience of societies […]

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