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Tony Rocchi04.10.2025

From Multi-Party State to One-Party State: the disintegration and collapse of non-Bolshevik parties and movements in the Russian Revolution. The former Russian Empire was the most multi-party country in Europe. However, by the early 1920s, the Soviet Union, its successor state, had become Europe’s biggest one-party state. The history of how the Bolsheviks or Communists […]

Igor Filonenko03.10.2025

1. Introduction. Why do they move capitals? History knows many examples when states decided to move their capital. Since the 18th century 69 countries have changed their center. It is always more than just an administrative step; it is a strategic move, reflecting new national priorities. The main reasons behind such decisions can be grouped […]

Klim Zhukov02.10.2025

The ancient Greeks and Romans also struggled with the housing crisis. In many developed countries, real estate prices have risen so much that for many people, the dream of owning a home has faded away. Renting is often not the best option, as the supply of affordable housing is limited. This is one of the […]

Kirill Benediktov01.10.2025

“If my words today make you shudder, then you should do the honorable thing and resign,” Pentagon Secretary Pete Hegseth told senior U.S. Army officers. Having gathered 900 generals and admirals at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia—which also houses the renowned FBI academy, the Drug Enforcement Agency’s training center, and several other interesting […]

Leon Pufferson30.09.2025

Tighten: This town isn’t big enough for two supervillains! Megamind: Oh, you’re a villain all right, just not a super one! Tighten: Oh yeah, what’s the difference? Megamind: PRESENTATION! © “Megamind” Agent 007 James Bond became the biggest success of the British intelligence MI6. Why? Because he never existed! It’s great when you can just […]

Dmitri Drobnitsky29.09.2025

On Saturday, US President Donald Trump launched a new attack on the FBI, claiming that hundreds of undercover agents were secretly present during the Capitol riots on January 6, 2021. This contradicts all the statements made by the Bureau and the Department of Justice at the time. According to sources from Blaze News, there were […]

Vladimir Golstein28.09.2025

This is too funny to miss. Dostoevsky complaining about lies and BS that western press publishes about Russia. Not much has changed since then. European and American media is as bigoted and as myopic now as it was 150 years ago. And probably even more mean-spirited. In 1868, while in France, Dostoevsky drafted a letter […]

Yuri Chekalin27.09.2025

A research team including the Japanese Circulation Society has uncovered a link between air pollution and heart attacks. In its study, the researchers determined that exposure to high concentrations of microscopic particulate matter (PM2.5) in the air increases the risk of acute myocardial infarction. PM2.5 refers to extremely fine particles with a diameter of 2.5 micrometers or less that […]

Prot. Victor Harakas26.09.2025

How to explain the following passage from the New Testament as it appears in the Jerusalem Bible: “If it is hard for a good man to be saved, what will happen to the wicked man and to sinners?” (1 Peter 4:18)? The passage which you mention is interesting on a number of different levels. First, […]

Andrey Vedyaev25.09.2025

September 19 marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Yuri Ivanovich Drozdov, whose name is associated with an entire era in the history of the KGB’s underground intelligence service. It was under his leadership that the Vympel special forces group was created, and the first Heroes of the Soviet Union emerged among the KGB’s […]

From Multi-Party Russia to One-Party State

Moving the Capital: Global Experience and Prospects for Russia

The Housing Crisis in Ancient Greece and Rome

The Purges In the Army

James Bond On Her Majesty’s Secret Service No More

“FBI Agitators” Were at Capitol Riot

Dostoevsky About European Views on Russia

Another Reason for a Heart Attack

An Important Lesson

Illegal Anniversary

America’s Water Systems Have a Cybersecurity Problem

The Law of Tomorrow

The Michael Jackson Biopic is Missing its Most Controversial Story

Madama Butterfly and the Japan of the Western Imagination