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Dmitri Drobnitsky02.11.2024

Stand-up comedian Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” at Madison Square Garden. In fact, harsh jokes in stand-up performances are commonplace, and Hinchcliffe’s words were taken out of context, but during the election season, it is precisely taking individual words out of context and twisting what was said that becomes almost […]

Alexander Palladin01.11.2024

Back in April 1982 US media revealed President Reagan’s intention to have lunch with a group of Soviet dissidents who had emigrated to the West. Their list contained the names of about a dozen of persons barely known to American people. Meanwhile, the extraordinary event was planned to coincide with the renewal of the Soviet-American […]

Alexander Palladin30.10.2024

Back in 1983 USA-based press published a report claiming that the American Big Brother managed to eavesdrop on what Leonid Brezhnev would say using the supposedly eavesdropping-prone phone in his limousine. The veracity of this piece of news was supported by quotes from US government sources. This was followed by even more sensational publications on […]

Tony Rocchi29.10.2024

The tumultuous eight months between the February and October Revolutions of 1917 witnessed many types of violence, but terrorism and even state violence were not among them. Instead, the lands of the former Russian Empire were rocked by many incidents of mass violence from below. Politically motivated killings often happened during 1917, but political parties […]

Dmitri Drobnitsky28.10.2024

But there were exceptions. What scared the mainstream so much and why was the chorus of voices incomplete? Donald Trump’s speech at Madison Square Garden in New York City, along with his wife and allies (including Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson) seriously scared the entire liberal mainstream. It wasn’t clear how to react. And then […]

Lada Zhinova28.10.2024

December 1945. Japan. The war has just ended. In the center of Tokyo, in the half-destroyed building of the Yurakuza Theater, the first post-war premiere is Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard. The play was last shown in 1937. Then it was directed by Aoyama Sugisaku, who 8 years later would return to Chekhov again, gathering all […]

Sergey Stankevich27.10.2024

Israel has struck ballistic missile production sites in Iran. Israel’s key allies — the US, Britain, Germany, France — have recognized this step as legitimate and adequate. Thus, an important geopolitical precedent has been de facto established. Missiles aimed at Israel can take off from the Gaza Strip, from Yemen, Lebanon or Syria. People in […]

Serg Levine27.10.2024

It would be fair to admit that neural networks have truly learned to do impressive things by now. Neural networks are already beating chess champions, recognizing a specific human face among many thousands of others, forecasting the weather, and even creating something like works of art that are sometimes so unexpectedly interesting that it makes […]

Dmitri Drobnitsky26.10.2024

Attorney General is sued by the state of Florida for obstructing state investigation into second assassination attempt on Donald Trump. The state of Florida has launched its own investigation into the circumstances surrounding the second assassination attempt on Donald Trump (in Palm Beach, Florida) due to its lack of confidence in the federal investigation. And […]

Alexander Palladin25.10.2024

At the end of January 1985, the 35th boxing match between the USSR and USA teams took place in Reno, Nevada. In connection with this, I visited this city, where I spent several days in the company of our boxing team. Before the match, the organizers of the competition arranged for us a bus tour […]

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