Returning to the topic of placing Sarmat strategic missiles on combat duty, I would like to draw the attention of dear readers to the fact that test launches of missiles before being put into service and placed on combat duty are not carried out for the purpose of fulfilling bureaucratic procedures. This is vitally important […]

Viktor Alksnis17.09.2023

I hope it is abundantly clear — all these roundabout ways to do with the volunteers for contract service might be connected with the Russian government’s fears that carrying out a new mobilization might cause less positive sentiments among the general population. That is why the word “mobilization” is seems to be put on the […]

Vladimir Grigoryan16.09.2023

The political blindness of the communists resulted in the fact that Ukrainian nationalism was formed on the basis of Russian nationalism, which fell on fertilized soil by Austrian and German nationalists. Thomas Venclova expressed a fairly sensible idea: “Many in the Baltic countries and throughout Eastern Europe consider Russian nationalism to be an absolute evil, […]

Nicholas Erin12.09.2023

Japan is planning to reduce reviewing residency process for IT engineers from this autumn on. Applicants will be able to receive residency status within a month if they are hired inside National Strategic Special Zones. This process currently takes three months. Foreign white-collar workers must obtain status of residence before entering Japan. They also submit […]

Yuri Chekalin21.08.2023

In Japan, many things are deeply symbolic. For example, every dish that is served on the New Year’s table has its own meaning. Therefore, it is easy to guess that gifts also have a hidden meaning in this country. And if you present a gift to a person older than you (by rank or age), […]

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Oil still remains the main source of export earnings for the Russian Federation. Judging by the report of the International Energy Agency, the actual weighted average price for Russian Urals oil (export by sea) under contracts implemented in July 2023 broke through the price ceiling set by the G-7 countries. This price was $64.41 per […]

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Once in a while, every parent, to one degree or another, faces the disobedience of their child. In France in the 60s, even a kid named Nicolas was popular — a character in children’s illustrated books, on which more than one generation of French grew up. He is curious and restless, mischievous but a dreamer, […]

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A protest action continues in Batumi against the arrival of the Astoria Grande ship with Russian tourists on board. According to local media, the activists threw eggs and plastic bottles at several buses and minibuses with tourists from the Russian Federation. Protesters are being arrested. In the 1990s and early 2000s, I often visited Adzharia, […]

Vladimir Grigoryan30.07.2023

The holy 90s, as Naina Yeltsin called them, if not to talk about my happy personal life, about my dear friends — this is a series of pictures that turn the heart into stone. October 4, 1993 — The plot on TV: The journalist is fussy, lively, spinning around the bodies of those killed in […]

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One day at sunset in 2000, the expeditor Vyacheslav Prokhorenko found the remains of a soldier next to the German fortifications on the Sinyavinsky Heights in the Leningrad Region. Buttonholes of a junior lieutenant, binoculars, a pistol. And in the pocket of the decayed tunic there is a medallion with a note. They unwind a […]

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