Government

Yuri Chekalin18.09.2024

Economic security minister Sanae Takaichi’s distribution of documents outlining her policies among Liberal Democratic Party members has sparked a controversy in the party’s presidential race, in which she is a candidate. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who is the incumbent party president, met with Hiroshi Moriyama, the chair of the LDP’s General Council, at its headquarters […]

Lucy Dickerson27.08.2024

Look at what they’ve come up with — eating meat and cheese and washing it down with milk… No way… It’s time to take care of the planet… They’ve already taken good care of rare birds like the puffin, especially in Scotland, where these little birds foolishly flew into the blades of wind turbines and […]

Sergey Stankevich17.07.2024

The French President accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and his government, the Elysee Palace said in a statement. A transition period has been officially announced, during which the outgoing administration will play the role of interim government until a new executive body is appointed. This transition period has never lasted more than […]

Dmitri Drobnitsky06.07.2024

Personnel is politics. This is the American version of the famous Soviet maxim. The think tank “Third Way” is involved in the project. The center’s task is to select federal functionaries (mainly many hundreds of political appointees) who would correspond to centrist, moderate principles, and would not be political left-liberal activists, of whom there were […]

Sergey Stankevich14.06.2024

The inauguration of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government immediately took place. in the new government the number of ministers increased from 53 to 71. The Indian media delve into and report which castes include the ministers of the new government. 10 Dalits (untouchables), 27 “other backward”, 21 “high” exclusively minority. A senior leader of […]

Tony Rocchi03.12.2023

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Political trials in the Russian Empire turned into battlegrounds between the government and educated society as represented by the political parties and movements. Socialist defendants and their liberal defense lawyers joined combat with prosecutors determined to present the revolutionaries as monsters seeking to destroy Russia. Defendants accused the government of committing crimes against the people […]

Tony Rocchi01.12.2023

Although the Russian government had severe policies against its real and imagined political opponents, it was not a police state. The government did not have the resources or the political will to become a police state. The image of the Russian Empire as a police state was built up from the 1800s by socialists and […]

Tony Rocchi24.10.2023

The Origins of Mass Political Terrorism in the Modern World. Mass terrorism was born in Russia. Terrorism — organized, armed violence against governments and societies — did not begin on September 11, 2001 with the attacks by Al-Qaida in the United States. Although politically motivated killings have happened over the centuries, terrorism as a specific […]

Yuri Chekalin10.01.2023

By 1908, the time was right for a new kind of agency to protect America. The United States was, well, united, with its borders stretching from coast to coast and only two landlocked states left to officially join the union. Inventions like the telephone, the telegraph, and the railroad had seemed to shrink its vast […]

Government

Japanese Roller Coaster

War on Meat

Spin, Macron, Spin!

Centrist Democrats Project for 2025

Who Touches Who

Political Crimes in the Russian Empire

The Political Police of the Russian Empire

The “Era of Dynamite”

The Birth of the FBI

Two-Faced Yakovlev: Part Two

Two-Faced Yakovlev: Part One

Who Won The Election?

The Soviet Newsman Speaks in the USA