Russia

Yuri Chekalin25.07.2026

The transformation of political vocabulary represents only the first stage in the symbolic reconstruction of legitimacy. Toward the Symbolic Reconstruction of Authority Words acquire their fullest political meaning when they become embodied in public ceremonies, commemorative practices, national symbols, civic rituals, monuments, and the visible performance of political authority. Revolutionary governments therefore moved beyond language […]

Yuri Chekalin18.07.2026

The temperature was pushing 40°C. The humidity felt like a steam bath. Still, a man has to eat. So I bought some fruit and wandered through a park in central Tokyo, happily snacking on grapes. Then I noticed a portrait of the Russian imperial family. A group of Russian expatriates was putting on some sort […]

Kamil Askerkhanov18.07.2026

Iranian Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad stated that the main parameters of an agreement with Russia have already been finalized. The project envisages the supply of up to 55 billion cubic meters of Russian gas annually through Azerbaijani territory. In my view, these statements deserve far more attention than they have received. Taken separately, they appear […]

Yaroslav Listov08.07.2026

One hundred and forty-five years ago, a man was born whose name became legendary even during his lifetime. At full gallop he rides, Bursting into life and immortality— Grigory Kotovsky, rebel and brigade commander, A four-time bearer of high honors. During the revolutionary year of 1905, still unsure of the proper way to fight the […]

Yaroslav Listov06.07.2026

“If We Have to Elect a Body, We’ll Elect a Body”: Yeltsin’s Heart Attack and How the Truth Was Hidden from the Country. On June 26, 1996, one week before the second round of the presidential election, Boris Yeltsin suffered his fifth heart attack of the year—the result of heavy drinking and the “jumping and […]

Yuri Chekalin01.07.2026

”…Death will bestow on us the bells of glory. Yet we pass through this world as envoys Of a country that has no name.” — Alexander Galich We were leaving Russia. Three years had passed since we had made the decision to emigrate to the United States—three years and an endless number of certificates, documents, […]

Egor Yakovlev29.06.2026

Once upon a time, Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev invented a smokeless pyrocollodion powder. At the time, European armies were rearming, and the Russian Naval Ministry reasoned that it would be better to have its own smokeless propellant technology than to rely on pyroxylin, which was already being produced at the Okhta Powder Works using French technology […]

Vladimir Golstein26.06.2026

Dostoevsky sets the events of his Brothers Karamazov in the style of Greek Tragedy. At least the events concerning Fyodor Karamazov, the father of all Karamazov’s brothers. Throughout the novel, Fyodor is on the collision course. All he does is challenging invisible hand of justice, pushing further and further into moral black hole. He rapes […]

Yuri Chekalin18.06.2026

A.R. Dyukov, known on Telegram under the modest nickname “Historian Dyukov,” decided to continue his denunciations of Vladimir Lenin and came up with the following: “I can’t help once again admiring Lenin’s genius. On February 26, 1921, when the country was already in a deep economic disaster and people were supposedly dying of hunger: ‘The […]

Robert Reich25.04.2026

Trump’s might-makes-right lawlessness will be his downfall. If we’re not careful, it will be America’s as well. Trump’s domestic and foreign policies — ranging from his attempted coup against the United States in January 2021, to his ICE and Border Patrol excesses (including murders in Minnesota), to his incursion into Venezuela and abduction of its […]

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Political Myths: Authority and Legitimacy (Part.9)

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A Living Legend

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The Great Russian Scientist Mendeleev

Modern Relevance of Dostoevsky

Dyukov on Lenin

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Political Myths: Authority and Legitimacy (Part.9)

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