They will turn away from Kiev, because it is fighting dirty, there are a lot of questions about corruption, the scale of wild antics is off the scale, the behavior with prisoners and with their own looters is terrifying. Because it is a poor, corrupt country, from which it will…

Chinese leader Xi Jinping told Joe Biden in a telephone conversation that democratic states are declining: “Democracy requires consensus. It takes time, and you don’t have it.” Recent events in the world make people think about the value of democracy. The thesis that democracy is the only correct system has…

Today I will share with you the appeal of a Russian woman, journalist and publicist Anastasia to the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky. “Dear Vladimir Alexandrovich. You are calling on the people of Russia to come out to protest against the war in your country. I would like to explain…

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the day when the steamer delivered 81 opposition intellectuals from Petrograd to Stettin. Today, the “philosophical steamer” is remembered more and more often. And the reason is not the round date. It would hardly have been remembered without a new wave of emigration…

I don’t know English well, but I’ll try to convey my point. The history of Russia has more than 1000 years. But even this time was not enough for all countries to study the mysterious Russian soul. The conflict in Ukraine only confirmed this thesis. Today I will tell you…

For a long time Switzerland remained one of the centers where a large Russian diaspora was formed. How did “Russian Switzerland” appear? The exchange of letters between the countries took place in 1687, during the reign of Ivan V Romanov. But regular trips of the citizens of the Russian Empire…

More and more often I hear one question: “Can a good Constitution be written in Russia?” Indeed, the main document of our country tends to change under almost every ruler (Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Yeltsin, Putin). But there are other examples, more pleasant, when our Russians wrote the Constitution, certain norms…

Today a series of posts about the history of Russian emigration starts on this channel. I bring to your attention 5 facts about Russian emigrants of the 19th century. 1. The history of Russian emigration goes back more than five centuries. During this time, a large Russian diaspora has formed…