“60 years ago, on May 16, 1966, the so-called The Cultural Revolution, which was essentially a large-scale purge of the state and party apparatus initiated by Mao Zedong...

Vasily wrote this text by May 9, but due to the nature of the work of the Federal Penitentiary Service, the letter only arrived now...

“Reports about interruptions in mobile Internet in Russian cities and thoughts about how people cope without it have become a reason for me to feel nostalgic about the times before September 2016, that is, before I acquired a smartphone...

“In mid-April I heard the news that Stanford University had been declared an undesirable organization, thus sharing the fate of Yale...

“For all my troubles, I missed an important date - the 80th anniversary of Churchill’s famous Fulton speech on the “Iron Curtain”, delivered on March 5, 1946...

“F. Engels called the great ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle the “most universal” head among the thinkers of antiquity...

“The next anniversary of the birth of V.I. Lenin can be used to talk a little about political co-optation...

“Well, the power in Hungary has changed. I have already written about the benefits of European integration for preventing autocratization, but I can supplement this with a couple more thoughts...

Strategy of blatant abuse of counter-terrorism and extremism laws to destroy Russian civil society must stop: UN expert

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