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Yuri Chekalin08.08.2025

Vasily Martekhov had an interesting fate. Vasily was born into a family of Russian immigrants at the Bukron mine in the American state of Ohio and became the fifth child. By birthright, the boy received US citizenship. His father, a miner, worked 12 hours a day, but received negligible amounts. The Martekhovs lived on a […]

Igor Filonenko06.08.2025

More precisely, it is about the interaction and complementarity of urban and rural territories. The boundaries between them will be blurred, but certainly not to the point of complete “interpenetration” or a kind of social annihilation. In general, an amazing thing is happening. Even Adam Smith and David Ricardo analyzed the division of labor and […]

Andrey Vedyaev30.07.2025

Hero of the Soviet Union Colonel Stanislav Alekseevich Vaupshasov is one of those people whose lives were spent in campaigns and battles, among forests, hills and mountain passes, behind the front line and, in his own words, at dangerous crossroads. He was born on July 27, 1899 in the town of Gruzdziai, 19 km from […]

Andrey Vedyaev28.07.2025

On July 10, 1900, the legendary Soviet intelligence officer Maria Aleksandrovna Fortus was born into the family of a Kherson banker. She had to look death in the eye more than once, but still stayed alive — it seemed that Fortune herself was on her side. At the age of 16, Maria, carried away by […]

Igor Filonenko25.07.2025

The history of mankind is the history of sedentarism. Nomadic tribes, who for centuries followed herds of animals and seasonal harvests, one day stopped. The transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture and livestock breeding became the first great revolution that gave birth to stationary settlements. But the real revolution occurred when the division of […]

David Tilman24.07.2025

The attitudes of the early Greeks toward nature were shaped by their religion. They saw the natural environment as the sphere of activity of the gods. Greek religion was in large part the worship of nature, and the old Greek gods were essentially nature deities. The gods ruled nature, they appeared in it, they acted […]

Nikita Tokarev21.07.2025

In line with political changes that call into question cultural and economic globalization, architects and clients in Russia are increasingly turning to the idea of a national style. The concept of Russian style refers us to national and even ethnic affiliation. It seems to me that in this way we find ourselves again in the […]

Kirill Benediktov21.07.2025

African Americans live in some kind of socialism, but it may end soon. In a very short and simplified form, the meaning of the Big Beautiful Act, signed by Trump on Independence Day, can be reduced to the following: those Americans who are employed in manufacturing or the service sector, which makes up almost 80% […]

Sergey Stankevich20.07.2025

So, the EU has finally agreed (on the fifth attempt) on the 18th package of sanctions against Russia. The most significant thing in the package is a new attempt to cut Russia’s income from oil exports. The “price ceiling” for the sale of oil from Russia has been reduced from $60 to $47.6 per barrel […]

Dmitri Drobnitsky16.07.2025

Senate Committee Rejects Trump’s Plan to Move Bureau Headquarters Within Washington. The issue of moving the FBI’s headquarters has been around for a long time. The Hoover Building, designed under Kennedy, laid out under Nixon and opened in 1975, has long been criticized by architects and urban planners, as well as the agents themselves: it […]

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