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Marine Le Pen’s career that might never have been. In 2027, France could elect a woman with a criminal conviction as president
In the tenth year of Emmanuel Macron’s rule, French society is deeply disappointed in him, and the political system is destabilized. Many voters now see voting for Marine Le Pen and her «National Rally» as the only way to express anger and distrust toward this system.
#Analytics #elections #JeanLucMélenchon #JordanBardella #MarineLePin #politicalcrisis #populism #rightandleft #France #EmmanuelMacron
Why did Putin’s Russia turn out worse than the USSR? René Guénon and Julius Evola explain
Two European thinkers of the 20th century provide timely keys to understanding Russia’s ideological evolution
#WarinUkraine #ideology #PatriarchKirill #Restructuring #aftertheUSSR #Putinism #RenéGuénon #Russia #fascism #essay #JuliusEvola
Armen Zakharyan: «Reading Proust may be of no use at all. But it can be lifesaving»
Today marks the 155th anniversary of the birth of the great French writer Marcel Proust. On this day, literary scholar Armen Zakaryan (YouTube channel «Armen and Fyodor») is publishing, with the Parisian publishing house Éditions Tourgueneff, the book «Conversations About Marcel Proust’s Novel ‘In Search of Lost Time.’» The closest analogue to this work is Vladimir Nabokov’s «Lectures on Foreign Literature»: they are even more interesting to read than the books Nabokov was telling American students about. Zakharyan’s guide to the universe of Proust also grew out of a series of his video lectures. They were prepared for publication by producer Roma Liberov, for whom they served as «great consolation in those dark years into which, like cold murky water, we all stepped». We spoke with Armen Zakharyan about what Proustian prose can console us with today.
#ArmenZakharyan #VladimirNabokov #Dreyfusaffair #interview #bookclub #LeoTolstoy #literature #MarecoeProust #FirstWorldWar #Renaissance #MiddleAges #France #existentialcrisis #Emigration
Forcing Peace. What Will Make Putin Stop the War in Ukraine
Team Zelensky still hopes that as soon as Russian citizens realize the state is unable to protect them, an uprising will begin in the country. However, these expectations fit poorly with how modern Russia is organized. Putin’s main vulnerability lies elsewhere.
#warinAfghanistan #WarinUkraine #Zelensky #Russianhistory #NATO #forecast #Putin #Russia #Trump
European cities are once again not ready for extreme heat. What needs to be done to fix the situation right now
Measures that can protect European cities from extreme heat are well known to scientists, governments, and business alike. Many of them are already working successfully in individual countries and cities. But why do these solutions still remain the exception rather than the rule?
#Analytics #business #Globalwarming #state #europe #heat #catastrophe #Climate #Thescience #urbanism
Talents and Admirers. Why Contemporary Cinema and Audiences Love Biographical Films So Much
Public interest in the lives of celebrities has always been high, and in the era of the open world, the internet, and social media it has surged even higher. No wonder the popularity of memoirs, interviews, and documentaries about famous people has grown so much — in short, any nonfiction. The personality of an individual has become more interesting than the context in which that person lived.
#chopwest #Hollywood #art #movie #Jacksondirection #poeticgenre #essay
«The Russian language does not belong to the Russian Federation»
Kira, the main character of the novel Zungenbrecher, moves to Germany, learns German, works the night shift cleaning the kitchen of an expensive restaurant, falls in love with a girl, looks for her place in her new life, and tries to rebuild her relationship with her own past. The novel is structured like a kind of foreign-language textbook: the chapters are named after proficiency levels, and between them there are exercises for readers. At the heart of the novel is the personal experience of its author Karina Papp — a translator and writer with Hungarian roots, born in Riga and educated in St. Petersburg. Later, this multilayered identity was joined by emigration to Germany, queer experience, and the events of recent years — Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, volunteer work, and attempts to redefine her relationship to the Russian language, her country of origin, and her own place in the world. She wrote her first novel in German, a language that is not her mother tongue, and made a principled decision not to translate it into Russian herself — because her relationship with her native language after emigration and Russian aggression became one of the book’s central themes.
#autofiction #WarinUkraine #Germany #europe #Identity #interview #queer #parentsandchildren #Russia #modernliterature #feminism #experimentalprose #Emigration #language
House Built from the Roof. What Russian Exile Opposition and United Russia Have in Common
In June, Russian opposition figures led by Ilya Yashin created the Peaceful Russia party in Berlin, which stands against the war and Vladimir Putin. But its vision of the country’s future largely reproduces the same centralized model of power that the opposition itself usually criticizes
#democracy #IlyaYashin #mokvocentrism #opposition #partybuilding #Putin #Regions #Russia
The Russian-Ukrainian war could spill over onto Belarusian territory. And that would be Zelensky’s mistake
The escalation of mutual threats between Lukashenko and Zelensky has been steadily intensifying over the past three months. And it has not been only words: things are quite serious
#Analytics #Belarus #WarinUkraine #ArmedForcesofUkraine #Zelensky #acrisis #Lukashenko #Putin #Russia
News Without Readers. Why Media Are Losing Audiences Worldwide and How This Is Happening in Russia
In 2025, Russian internet resources in the «News and Media» category lost up to 15% of their views and visitors in Yandex and Google. According to Kokoc Performance, organic traffic in the first half of 2025 fell by an average of 30% (in some cases — by up to 60%). This reflects a global trend: people are tired of bad news and simply unable to process the huge volume of incoming information.
#Analytics #theInternet #information #capitalism #acrisis #mediabusiness #Russia #Digitaleconomy
General and His Army: Why Are There So Few De Gaulle Biopics in France?
For many years after the Second World War, the French stubbornly pretended that their country had been a territory of Resistance during the occupation, and directors with a critical view of this myth were virtually ostracized. The French public has only now grown ready for a candid discussion of this topic: three films are arriving in national release at once — about De Gaulle, his supporters, opponents, and «apolitical» conformists. The latter, unfortunately, are usually in the majority.
#WorldWarII #historicalmemory #movie #Vichyregime #resistance #France #CharlesdeGaulle
Risk Premium. How Elon Musk Became the World’s First Trillionaire
What makes Musk’s business model turn technological ambition into record-breaking value? And what does this phenomenon tell us about an economy where hopes for the future increasingly outweigh profits «here and now»?
#spacex #tesla #Xcom #Analytics #businessmodel #future #elonmask #capitalism #Space #forecasts #finance #Digitaleconomy
Who Will Fight for Narva? Some Assumptions About Possible Developments in the Event of Russian Aggression Against the EU
Continuation of hybrid warfare, direct invasion, or a deterrent strike: we examine three of the most realistic scenarios.
#Analytics #WarinUkraine #hybridwar #europe #Latvia #NATO #forecasts #Russia #Balticcountries #USA #Estonia #nuclearweapons
Gulnara’s Gold: Why Tashkent Fears the Swiss Case Against the Daughter of Islam Karimov
The daughter of Uzbekistan’s first president, Islam Karimov, is once again in the spotlight of the world’s media. She has been summoned to a Swiss court in a corruption case. Bringing this case to a close would make it possible to return about a billion dollars to the country’s state budget. But in Tashkent they refused even to temporarily release Karimova from prison. The reason may not be only about money: many representatives of today’s Uzbek elite began their careers back under Islam Karimov and were, in one way or another, connected to his daughter. Her testimony is more dangerous for them than the loss of a billion.
#Analytics #power #GulnaraKarimova #notKarimov #corruption #aftertheUSSR #successors #SaidaMirziyoyeva #uzbekistan #CentralAsia #ShavkatMirziyoyev
On the Edge of Apocalypse. About Alexander Gogun’s book «A Calculated Day of Doom: How Stalin Prepared World War III»
Reading Gogun’s major historical study, I kept recalling our family chronicles. The author tells how, in 1946–1947, during preparations for a new world war, army authorities, while freely demobilizing high-ranking officers, sought at the same time to retain combat officers of the lower or middle ranks — with the main emphasis, first and foremost, on field artillery. So it was with my father as well. In 1937, when he was a 14-year-old boy, he was sent off to the camps. Five years later, having miraculously survived, he volunteered for the front and spent the entire war on the front line, commanding an anti-tank 45-mm gun. He was wounded three times. A decorated veteran. In 1947, after a decade of state-imposed captivity, he tried in vain to be demobilized — but they would not release him: «We need officers with front-line experience». He was let go only after, in one of his countless applications, he dared to mention his sentence under Article 58 of the Criminal Code for «counterrevolutionary activity», which he had concealed in army forms («At the time I considered it necessary to keep that hidden»).
#YeiintheUSSR #ideology #historyoftheUSSR #bookclub #communism #worldrevolution #repressionsintheUSSR #review #Stalin #WorldWarIII
«As a Ukrainian, I identified with what is happening to the population of Palestine». Interview with a Ukrainian participant in the «Sumud» flotilla — before and after detention by Israeli authorities
Nina Potarska is a Ukrainian sociologist and researcher in feminist political economy. She heads the Ukrainian Center for Social and Labor Research and is involved in the Global Women’s Alliance for Leadership in Security (WASL). Nina spent her childhood in Murmansk Oblast, from where Russian Air Force fighter jets now take off to carry out airstrikes on Kyiv. But Potarska does not agree with the widespread comparison between Ukraine after February 24 and Israel after October 7: she is in solidarity with Palestinians and criticizes Israel’s actions in Gaza. This spring, Nina joined the humanitarian flotilla «Sumud» — an international maritime initiative launched last year with the aim of breaking Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip. She gave the first part of the interview at the beginning of the flotilla’s voyage, and the second part after she, along with other pro-Palestinian activists, was detained by Israeli security forces.
#bigtalk #war #warinGaza #WarinUkraine #Israel #interview #conflict #Palestine #GazaStrip #securityforces #Sumudflotilla
From Chișinău to Yerevan. Why Russia’s Former Allies Are Choosing the European Union
This Sunday, June 7, Armenia is holding parliamentary elections-and the campaign there is unfolding according to a logic reminiscent of Moldova’s 2025 campaign. Nikol Pashinyan’s party is building its campaign around theses similar to those used in Moldova by Maia Sandu’s party: European integration and resistance to Russian threats. However, this is driven not only by the desire to protect themselves from Moscow. Both Armenian and Moldovan societies have become disillusioned with Russia as a partner that promised support but failed to provide it at key moments. For Armenia, this resulted in the loss of Karabakh; in Moldova, residents of Transnistria nearly ran out of gas in winter. The European course is seen as an alternative and a way to escape pressure, economic restrictions, and political ultimatums from Moscow. This distancing from Russia will apparently continue as long as Vladimir Putin remains in power in the Kremlin.
#Analytics #Armenia #elections #europe #Europeanintegration #Moldova #pashinyan #Putin #Russia
Triumph of Weak-Willedness. A Film Has Been Released in French Cinemas About How, in 2020, a Muslim Schoolboy Brutally Killed His Teacher
When information appeared about Vincent Garenq’s upcoming film, one immediately thought it would be about freedom of speech, about radical Islamism, about society’s fear of it. But the director chose a different angle — this is a film about how the state does not protect its citizen, who is simply doing his job
#state #discussion #CannesFilmFestival #movie #Muse #violence #inventory #SamuelPaty #freedomofspeech #secularism #terrorism #murder #France #extremism
Quiet voices in an era of loud statements. What to see at the Venice Biennale besides political scandals
The opening of Europe’s main contemporary art exhibition this year was accompanied by noisy protest actions. But the Biennale will run through the end of November, and there is certainly plenty to see here besides the closed doors of the notoriously scandalous Russian pavilion.
#VeniceBiennale #Venice #WarinUkraine #europe #conflicts #protests #sentimentaltravel #art
«Defend Yourselves.» In the Fifth Year of the War in Ukraine, Russia Has Lost Its Strategic Depth
The events of May 2026 have shown a significant shift in the balance of power on the fronts of the Russian-Ukrainian war. In fact, the two sides have reached parity. Yet, at the start of the full-scale war in 2022, Vladimir Putin did not consider Ukraine a significant opponent at all.
#Analytics #drones #VladimirZelensky #VladimirPutin #militarystrategy #WarinUkraine #lifeinRussia #defense #frontandrear