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.

For 16 years in power, Viktor Orbán assumed that the benefits of close ties with Moscow would always outweigh the image costs. It turned out that Hungarian voters wanted not only low prices for gasoline and gas, but also a European identity.

We continue the conversation about the "demise of beautiful Europe under the onslaught of barbarian migrants with their alien culture." Such views are quite popular even among post-Soviet emigrants who have lived in the West for a long time—they genuinely worry that "Germany is not what it used to be."

There should be only one entry point for consumers — Russian Post. All private marketplaces will also have to operate through it, and, according to the government’s logic, they’ll even have to pay for the privilege.