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Kirill Benediktov11.09.2026

According to a popular myth, Americans have never fought a war on their own soil. In fact, they have—and quite spectacularly. In 1812, the United States declared war on the British Empire and came perilously close to losing it. Britain was fighting Napoleon at the same time—which tells you something about the scale of its […]

Dmitri Drobnitsky10.09.2026

The Republican Party is slowly shedding the original version of Trumpism. And Tucker Carlson has become toxic to political careers. J.D. Vance is not apologizing for his friendship with Carlson—at least not yet. But he is making it clear that he does not agree with him. Vice President J.D. Vance has increasingly been filling in […]

Kamil Askerkhanov08.09.2026

The Economist recently published a timely warning: America’s sovereign debt is massive, but Europe faces the true existential crisis. The most revealing aspect of this predicament, however, is not the raw figures. It is the question of why the structural cracks in the European architecture are suddenly erupting into the open right now. The underlying […]

Yuri Chekalin07.09.2026

A earthly platform. Do not grieve, Nor cry aloud. To all our wails he’s deaf. One of us has left for paradise— He’ll meet God there, for surely God exists. — V. Vysotsky Time flows, time rushes on, dragging us into its whirlpools, shattering the fragile little boats of our memories into splinters. Sometimes it […]

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 […]

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See the Pentagon and Die

Vance Has a Problem: His Friendship with Tucker Carlson

Who Will Inherit Old Europe’s Tab?

Shards of My Memory

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

An Aristocrat of Espionage

France Is Burning. But Who Stands to Gain?

Texas Declares a Diesel Emergency

Tokyo of Solitude