Police

Kamil Askerkhanov02.10.2026

What is happening in France has already grown into something larger than yet another confrontation between high-school and university students and the education authorities. The protests began with demands that were both familiar and readily understandable: teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms, and deteriorating school infrastructure. Yet within days, the unrest spread across the country and began […]

Yuri Chekalin19.09.2026

At 1:40 in the morning, the March rain turned the neon of Kabukicho outside my window into smeared, dirty streaks of color. She came in barefoot. I noticed her feet before I noticed her face. The soles were scraped raw. Her right knee was streaked with soot and dried blood. A wet trail followed her […]

Alexander Rimov09.08.2026

On July 22, 2026, Nikita Nikolayevich Zezin, a distinguished agricultural scientist and Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, died at the age of 67. The official cause of death was a heart attack. But his colleagues, friends, and public figures across Russia believe something far more sinister happened: they say Zezin was killed. […]

Tony Rocchi13.04.2025

When we try to determine the place of terrorism in the Russian Empire between 1866-1911 in the history of global terrorism, terrorism in Russia takes on a new dimension of being terrorism in its purest form. More and more, scholars and publicists group terrorists under the general category of “non-state armed actors” and call terrorism […]

Lucy Dickerson11.08.2024

First, a disclaimer — I don’t like modern journalists, they are too aggressive, impudent, pushy, brazen and lying… They pass off all these “wonderful” qualities as “reporter’s courage, integrity and desire to get to the truth.” Don’t believe it — there is none of that there, no courage, no integrity, and especially no desire to […]

Yuri Chekalin14.07.2024

The person who shot Trump turned out to be a 20-year-old Pennsylvania resident — he published a video on his account where he announced the assassination attempt. American media publish a photo of a 20-year-old local resident of Pennsylvania, Matthew Crooks. During Trump’s speech, he was 100 meters from the stage, on the roof of […]

Tony Rocchi08.12.2023

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Political terrorism was born in Europe in the 19th century and the Russian Empire was the birthplace of mass terrorism. Europe, Russia, and Political Terrorism However, the history of political terrorism in the Russian Empire is still badly integrated into the history of Europe just as it is poorly integrated into the history of world […]

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 […]

Yuri Chekalin03.02.2022

A record 2,170 cases of child abuse were investigated last year in Japan, up 1.7 percent from the previous year, as the coronavirus pandemic continued to reduce opportunities for welfare workers to intervene, a police report showed Thursday. The number of minors referred to child welfare centers nationwide due to suspicion of abuse, meanwhile, also […]

Nicholas Erin18.07.2020

Police are planning to stop handing the sweets of kids out this Halloween, but only because the gifts come from the yakuza, the biggest underworld organization in Japan. Yamaguchi-gumi gang members, based in the western port city of Kobe, have been distributing Halloween candy to local children most years since 2013. But local police, concerned […]

France Is Burning. But Who Stands to Gain?

It’s Cold There

A Tragedy That Shook Russia

Political Terrorism in its Purest Form: Terrorism in the Russian Empire

How to Properly React to the Press?

Failed Assassination Attempt on Trump

Terrorism, Revolutions, and Police Violence in Russia and Europe

The Political Police of the Russian Empire

In Japan record number of child abuse, domestic violence cases reported in 2021

Japan Police Seek to Deprive Children of Halloween Sweets

France Is Burning. But Who Stands to Gain?

Texas Declares a Diesel Emergency

Tokyo of Solitude

The Digital Economy Is Running Into the Physical World