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Only Workaholics Survive. A Russian Korean on His Experience Emigrating to South Korea
Kostya Pak is a 34-year-old marketer from Seoul. He has been living and working in South Korea for over five years, building a career in the beauty industry and observing the changes in the country he once decided to move to. In this interview, he honestly and in detail explains why young people in South Korea are in no hurry to have children, what life is like in the very heart of a metropolis, what the future holds for this country—and for himself.
#Asia #personalexperience #Russia #LaborandCapital #Emigration #Southside
What Do Trump and Kissinger Have in Common?
American politician and diplomat Henry Kissinger would have turned 102 today (considering he lived to 100, this is quite a realistic assumption). His name is firmly associated with the concepts of «shuttle diplomacy» and Realpolitik. For his efforts to end the Vietnam War in 1973, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Despite being one of the architects of U.S. foreign policy aimed against the USSR during the Cold War, he later often spoke sympathetically about Russia, justified its foreign policy actions, and met with. Kissinger’s ideological legacy is especially interesting in light of the Russia-Ukraine war and Donald Trump’s attempts to stop it.
#Analytics #VladimirZelensky #VladimirPutin #war #WorldEconomicForum #HenryKissinger #democracy #JoeBiden #dictatorship #diplomacy #DonaldTrump #China #Russia #SovietUnion #SteveBannon #Ukraine
160 years ago the South lost the Civil War in the USA. What would the world be like if they had won?
The Civil War in the USA is a significant watershed not only for America's past but for the entire world. This conflict was the last war of the Modern Era and the first of contemporary history. It began with volunteer militias whose commanders emulated Frederick the Great and Napoleon Bonaparte, and ended with mass professional armies fully prepared for the meat grinders of World War I. Ironclads, submarines, repeating firearms, field trenches, and the telegraph—all were first used in the war of 1861–1865. The political consequences of the American conflict were no less important.
How Pravfond Works — The Center Supporting Russian Agents Abroad
In Soviet times, the Russian emigration was an important base for recruiting foreign agents, but after the collapse of the USSR, its numbers grew many times over – opening up inexhaustible opportunities for Russian intelligence services. The network of Russian influence agents and simple spy centers is visibly becoming denser
#agents #Analytics #antiRussiansanctions #VyacheslavNikonov #Gru #dictatorship #YevgenyPrimakov #Study #kgb #NataliaKardash #aftertheUSSR #legalfund #propaganda #Russianspecialservices #Rossotrudnichestvo #Russianworld #SVR #SergeyLavrov #compatriots #FSB
How French Pensioners Robbed Kim Kardashian and Walked Free
At the time of the robbery, all the criminals were pensioners or just about to retire. In the French press, they were nicknamed Papys Braqueur – literally “Grandpa Robbers,” though a better translation into English would be “Old Men Bandits.” As one of them explained, their pensions barely covered living expenses. So they decided not to wait for state charity and to secure a comfortable retirement on their own.
The Reformer’s Curse. The Results of Elon Musk’s Brief Political Career
If we set aside ideological grievances against Elon Musk and try to impartially look at the path he has taken over the past few years, it can be quite disheartening. Not so much because of his series of personal failures, which ultimately led to the erasure of his reputation and distancing from the White House, but because of the failure of the very concept of bridging innovative business with politics. A concept that until recently seemed so meritocratically attractive and promising.
#business #power #DonaldTrump #elonmask #conflict #USA #essay
Looking Back at Trump and Putin. The European Union Adopted the 17th Sanctions Package Against Russia.
The latest EU sanctions package took a long time to adopt. Firstly, due to the usual resistance from Hungary, which is always against restrictions on Russian oil and gas that it itself uses. Secondly, EU officials faced a tricky task: not to anger Donald Trump with too harsh sanctions—he could accuse the EU of sabotaging his “magnificent deal” with Russia—and to signal to Vladimir Putin that making peace would be cheaper than continuing the war.
«We are all mired here in thoughts of a better life». Report from a proletarian ghetto in the center of Moscow
In the center of Moscow, near Paveletsky Station, there is a kind of ghetto. In Soviet times, workers from other regions moved here, to Derbenevskaya Street — local factories needed them. Those factories have long since closed, but the workers still live in the local dormitory and communal apartments. Here they raised children, tried to build their lives in the capital, many began to abuse alcohol, and now they are waiting to be relocated under the renovation program.
#lifeinRussia #Moscow #inequality #aftertheUSSR #reportage #LaborandCapital
Our alliance is wonderful. What is happening inside the «Weimar Triangle»
Who today could take responsibility both for continuing support of Ukraine, for rearming Europe, and for organizing a more autonomous security system? Obviously, in the absence of competencies within the EU in defense policy, this mission should be taken on by the leading European countries — in fact, these are the countries of the Weimar Triangle. The first signs of agreement between them, shown in the May visits and negotiations, inspire cautious hope. There are no other contenders for such a role anyway.
#Analytics #security #WeimarTriangle #VladimirZelensky #war #EastEurope #Germany #DonaldTusk #EuropeanUnion #west #integration #NATO #Poland #weaponsproduction #sanctionsagainstRussia #Ukraine #France #FriedrichMerz #EmmanuelMacron
Can the talks in Istanbul turn the tide of the Russia-Ukraine war? Interview with political scientist Dmitry Oreshkin
Negotiations between Ukraine and Russia are scheduled for May 15 in Istanbul, actively promoted by US President Donald Trump. According to political scientist and geographer Dmitry Oreshkin (the Russian Ministry of Justice considers him a foreign agent), important matters that have already changed the course of events around the war remain in the shadows of these talks.
What will happen to the Russian economy if oil prices continue to fall?
Of course, the Russian economy is much better prepared for an oil shock than the Soviet one – not only because of its market nature but also because the Russian authorities are trained by previous crises. However, the population and, most importantly, the elites are accustomed to a completely different standard of living than in the USSR. How will they react to their wealth falling by half or even two to three times?
New Pope: made in USA. Will Trump Dare to Compete with Leo XIV?
Protecting Christians in America and worldwide was one of Trump's campaign promises. Now it is important for him to demonstrate to voters his closeness to the head of the Catholic Church. However, one should not expect a successful symbiosis of secular and spiritual power in the case of the first American pope and the 47th American president.
Trump and Technofascism: The Revenge of the White-Handed Beast
Why Trump?Why did this deceitful, shameless, loudly boiling narcissist, who contradicts what he said in the morning by evening, sows chaos, despises morality and law, not only become president of the world's leading country but also eagerly set about breaking both the country and the world?
#DonaldTrump #ideology #elonmask #USA #technology #UmbertoEco #fascism #essay
The son of the CIA deputy director in the «meat assault» and the cult of collective identity
Let's put aside the «professionalism» of the Russian special services, who couldn't even identify a valuable asset and simply disposed of him in yet another offensive on the Ukrainian front. Nevertheless, this situation itself is quite telling. Of course, not every left-wing radical agrees to fight on Russia's side, but Michael Gloss's case as a whole illustrates rather problematic trends in Western society (and not only Western).
Frightening, frightening involuntarily. Europe is considering a rearmament program
Events of recent years have forced Europe to rethink its security concept. It is not just about the current contradictory activity of President Trump and his entourage, from which numerous claims against Europeans arise, including the most surprising ones. These disagreements did not start yesterday – not even during Trump's first term. The Obama and Biden administrations did not spare the traditional rhetoric about transatlantic solidarity, but in reality pursued the same line of distancing from old allies. The US position on supporting Ukraine from the first days of the war, when Trump was still far from the White House, left a strange and ambiguous feeling that occurs when true goals do not coincide with declared ones. In general, the revision of transatlantic relations has been going on for a long time, but today it has sharply touched on such a sensitive issue as Europe's security and NATO's prospects.
Invisible and Free
At the end of February 2025, journalist and film critic Ekaterina Barabash was detained in Moscow. For social media posts about the war in Ukraine, the Russian Investigative Committee accused her of spreading «fakes» about the Russian army out of hatred. In Russia, this charge carries a prison sentence of five to ten years. Fortunately, Ekaterina managed to escape from house arrest and reach Europe. Today, we can finally tell the story of how it happened.
#WarinUkraine #dictatorship #lifeinRussia #KaterinaBarabash #personalexperience #repressions
“The Americans put their own ass on the line, and we kicked them as much as we could”
The Cold War between the USSR and the USA was a unique conflict in human history. On both sides, it was waged not so much by the military as by intelligence agents, diplomats, weapons designers, and even journalists, athletes, and cultural figures. Therefore, it’s no surprise that the flight of a single aircraft could be comparable to the actions of a large military formation in a conventional war.