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Sergey Stankevich24.05.2025

On Donald Trump’s signal, the US Department of Defense accepted a gift from the Qatari Ministry of Defense of a luxury Boeing 747-8 aircraft in an exclusive VIP configuration. This gift aircraft will temporarily replace the current 40-year-old presidential aircraft Air Force One. According to Trump, we are talking about a “very public and transparent […]

Dmitri Drobnitsky23.05.2025

All international students at Harvard must transfer or leave the U.S. The Trump administration has blocked Harvard University from accepting international students. Current students have two options: transfer or leave the country. The Department of Homeland Security announced the action Thursday, saying Harvard had created an unsafe campus environment by allowing “anti-American, pro-terror agitators” to […]

Yuri Chekalin22.05.2025

Children dashed around in gleeful abandon, their tiny hands reaching for the showers of petals, rolling down the sidewalk or weaving through the legs of adults caught in nostalgic reveries. On this particular Saturday in late March, the sun cast a golden hue over Nikko Lane, illuminating the rows of houses adorned with vibrant azalea […]

Dmitri Drobnitsky21.05.2025

First impressions. And what’s next? 1). The negotiations were clearly not going smoothly. Trump desperately needs “at least something”, and preferably “peace at any cost”. Such a peace does not suit Russia and Putin, and this is a critical, vital impossibility. 2). Trump did not succumb to pressure from European “partners” (who are in fact […]

Sergey Stankevich21.05.2025

Bloomberg on the US President’s statement following talks with the Russian President. The publication notes that European leaders are “disappointed” that the US President “does not want to impose more sanctions” on Russia and “is abandoning his own ceasefire proposal.” In addition, European leaders fear that Trump will abandon his efforts to end the war, […]

Dmitri Drobnitsky19.05.2025

The basis was a social media post that could mean a call to assassinate the US president. Former FBI Director and longtime Trump foe James Comey posted a photo on his social media account from his vacation in the Seychelles, where the numbers “8647” were laid out in the sand using shells. Trump supporters believed […]

Vladimir Golstein18.05.2025

Who Are the Guardians Who Lead us to … Perdition. Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov has this insightful episode. Drunken Fyodor, the father of the Karamazovs, embarks on one of his favorite diatribes against the church. They are dishonest, they trade in superstitions, they exploit the peasants, they make up stories, and they try to shame scoundrels […]

Dmitri Poskonnyi17.05.2025

The Indo-Pakistani conflict, rooted in decades of territorial disputes, ideological clashes, and geopolitical rivalry, has evolved into one of the most perilous flashpoints of the 21st century. With both nations armed with nuclear weapons and a stark imbalance in conventional military power, the risk of catastrophic escalation looms large. This extended explores the conflict’s historical […]

Alexander Palladin15.05.2025

As I mentioned in Part 1 of this article, in 1973 I started working as a reporter in Canada. There, and later on in USA, I experienced a real shock to find out how little local people knew about other nations, their culture and history. In 1950s my father worked at Goslitizdat, the biggest Soviet […]

Kirill Benediktov13.05.2025

Western media outlets continue to marvel at Trump’s turn from “thug” Putin to “hero” Zelensky. But in the camp of the most devout Trumpists, the MAGA movement, there is little enthusiasm. “MAGA base isn’t stirring up trouble — but still skeptical of Ukraine,” Axios reports in an article headlined “MAGA Keeps Quiet as Trump, Vance […]

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