Russia

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 […]

Yaroslav Listov22.04.2026

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin’s birthday is a good opportunity to remember what this name means to us, modern residents of Russia. Today, as a matter of principle, I will not discuss the lofty matters of philosophy and political analysis. Lenin was not only a politician, but also a brilliant philosopher, sociologist, economist, historian, and, of course, […]

Egor Yakovlev15.04.2026

The Russian Empire and the United States signed the treaty on March 18 (30), 1867, in Washington. The United States received the entire Alaska Peninsula, the Alexander and Kodiak archipelagos, the Aleutian Islands, and several islands in the Bering Sea. The United States paid $7.2 million in gold for all these territories! There’s a stereotype […]

Vladimir Morozov09.04.2026

The media have opened the Overton window, starting to discuss the feasibility of switching to a 12-hour workday. Since current politicians are not eager to embrace the new topic against the backdrop of Dmitry Medvedev’s recent proposal to reduce the working day to 4 hours, they suggest that veteran capitalist workers evaluate the possible innovation. […]

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The Great Russian Scientist Mendeleev

Modern Relevance of Dostoevsky

Dyukov on Lenin

Why Bullies Always Fail — as Trump Is Failing

Voice from Russia

Why did Russia sell Alaska?

A 12-hour Workday as a Solution to the Demographic Problem?

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VDNKh and the Contours of the Future

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The Pope Excommunicates the Bishops of the Society of Saint Pius X