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Unbearable Lenin

Last week, few people remembered Vladimir Ulyanov’s (Lenin’s) birthday. Among those who did mark the date was the Turgenev Library in Paris: on April 22, the complete 55-volume collected works of the leader of the Russian Revolution were ceremoniously carried out from its shelves. Parisian supporters of Lenin tried to intervene in the process.

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Olga Proskurnina

World War by the Laws of Postmodernism: Putin and Trump Against Global Progress

The general public often treats postmodernist practices with a certain lack of seriousness—since historical religious dogmas can be ironically and bizarrely combined with thoroughly cynical modern «business pragmatism.» However, the growing number of victims of these postmodernist wars is all too real.

«We understood that neither the Japanese nor the German governments would approve of our actions. But we did it anyway.»

In 1940, Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, acting on his own initiative, saved about 6,000 Lithuanian Jews from Nazi concentration camps by issuing them transit visas. In memory of this feat, a cherry blossom park was established in the Lithuanian capital—and right now, people are celebrating its bloom.

Putin: Birth and Rebirth

Putin was not always a blood-stained despot who couldn’t care less about the chimera of conscience, morality, and law; who easily kills both Navalny, Prigozhin, and thousands of people in war. And I would like to see someone who truly knows how and why this happened. But what matters to us now is who he has become

«We understood that neither the Japanese nor the German governments would approve of our actions. But we did it anyway.»

Unbearable Lenin

Сборник стихов «Холмик на холсте»

World War by the Laws of Postmodernism: Putin and Trump Against Global Progress

Popular Science in Russia and the West: Two Markets, Two Logics, Two Survival Modes

«We understood that neither the Japanese nor the German governments would approve of our actions. But we did it anyway.»

«The Hungarian Red Banner Sanctifies Him in Battle.» Orbán’s Defeat in Hungary’s Election Is a Victory for Europe

«A Strange Guy from Kurgan.» How the Only Eibar Fan Club in Russia Appeared in the Southern Urals

Who Really Committed Genocide Against the Soviet People — Hitler or Stalin?

«That’s like banning everyone with a big nose from driving a car»

«To serve a criminal regime or not is a matter of conscience.» Alexey and Masha Moskalyov — on war, emigration, and moral choice

A November Socialist Revolution Took Place in New York

The Mamdani Effect Didn’t Happen. Why the Rich Aren’t Fleeing New York

Putin: Birth and Rebirth

«We understood that neither the Japanese nor the German governments would approve of our actions. But we did it anyway.»

«We thought we could wait out the war ‘under the Russians,’ but ended up in Stalinist Bolshevism.» On the 85th anniversary of the Soviet annexation of the Baltics

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