On September 24, 1911, Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko was born. Younger people probably won’t even remember who he was. He headed the USSR for only 11 months and was remembered only for reinstating the 94-year-old Molotov, who had fallen into disgrace under Khrushchev, into the party. Meanwhile, if he had lived at least another six months, […]

Kirill Benediktov26.09.2024

Elon Musk’s question about why no one is trying to kill Biden and Harris, while there has already been two assassination attempts on Trump, was only half a joke. But really, why? Well, with Biden, everything is clear. After refusing to run for re-election (which may not have been done entirely of his own free […]

Klim Zhukov25.09.2024

The eductional reforms are once again a subject to discussions. Studying for 11 years at school is an unaffordable luxury, soon secondary, like higher education, will be “compressed in time,” said Vladimir Medinsky, an aide to the Russian president, head of the Russian Military Historical Society and former Minister of Culture. “Time dictates a reduction […]

Vladimir Grigoryan24.09.2024

I had a friend who was convinced that if you launch an Orthodox satellite and broadcast something Orthodox on all TVs, the country will very quickly return to faith, become a churchgoer in a matter of years. I remember when I hear from priests again that most teenagers who grew up in Christian families completely […]

Kirill Benediktov22.09.2024

Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz says there are “at least” five assassination teams operating in the United States targeting Donald Trump. “Three of them that we know of are foreign in nature. Two of them that we know of are domestic in nature, and that requires force protection that we don’t have around the former president […]

Dmitri Drobnitsky22.09.2024

The meeting of the leaders of the United States, India, Japan and Australia will be held in Wilmington, Delaware. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese have already arrived in Wilmington. Joe Biden will host his Quad partners at his home. The general meeting and gala […]

Viktor Alksnis21.09.2024

Many commentators waving Yandex (Google) maps with space images of the arsenals and storage bases of the Russian Ministry of Defense forget about elementary things. Firstly, these space images are usually long-term from the moment of shooting. Sometimes several years. After all, the images are purchased from operator companies, and their cost is very high. […]

Sergey Stankevich21.09.2024

While Germans have been preoccupied with migration and the war in Ukraine in recent years, their economy has been slowly deteriorating. After years of ignoring what was plainly visible to the rest of the world, Germans are slowly waking up to the reality that they are in deep trouble as the four horsemen of the […]

Natalia Tanshina20.09.2024

The West loves (and loved) to declare its tolerance and to accuse others, those who disagree, of lacking it. And tolerance — only in relation to itself. Let’s take the religious issue, in relation to which this term is often used. As is known, in 1054 the previously united Christian Church split into the Western, […]

Tony Rocchi19.09.2024

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The year 1908 was somewhat pivotal for Leo Tolstoy, the world’s greatest writer. In that year, Tolstoy wrote «I Cannot Be Silent» in which he condemned the government for using violence against revolutionaries and ordinary people during the Revolution of 1905-1907. As Tolstoy wrote: “You say the atrocities committed by the revolutionaries are terrible. I […]

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