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Migration crisis in Ceuta: what was that?
All mass migrations always have completely specific causes: war, mass famine, natural disasters, and the like. Is any of that happening in Morocco right now? Obviously, nothing.
#Analytics #EuropeanUnion #Spain #Morocco #migrants #Ceutamigrantcrisis #provocation
Privatization of the past. How Putin and his entourage earned political capital from Russian history
At the beginning of July, historian Konstantin Pakhalyuk’s book «In Search of »Russian Antiquity«» was included in the longlist for the «Provetitel» prize. With the kind permission of the publisher Chișinău: The Historical Expertise, which republished the book after its de facto ban in Russia, we are publishing the chapter «State Memory Policy in the Conditions of the ‘Conservative Turn’ (2012 — early 2022)», which explains why cynical Russian politicians and bureaucrats needed events from long ago.
#Analytics #VladimirMedinsky #VladimirPutin #power #ideology #Study #Russianhistory #conservativeturn #rent #RussianMilitaryHistoricalSociety #SergeyNaryshkin
Crying entrepreneurs as a symbol of Russian capitalism. What the strikes on Wildberries warehouses showed
After a series of massive strikes on Wildberries warehouses, hundreds of amateur videos with the same content appeared on social media: sellers, in tears, talk about multimillion losses and complain that the state offers them no help, while the marketplace’s payouts are incomparable to the damage suffered. In early July, Wildberries introduced a new version of its offer, recognizing drone attacks as force majeure — and is now no longer obliged to compensate sellers for losses. Economist Nikolai Kulbaka is convinced: all this is not the fault of one specific company, but a systemic pattern of modern Russian capitalism.
#Wildberries #droneextermination #business #WarinUkraine #state #lifeinRussia #capitalism #acrisis
Say thank you too that you’re still alive. In Russia, they are introducing civil execution for political emigrants
During the discussion in the Duma of the new repressive law, Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin stated: «Those who left abroad and harm the country are not the opposition, they are traitors, they are criminals». A little earlier, he branded political emigrants with an even harsher word in the now-familiar style of Russian politics, calling the initiative «a law against degenerates». But apparently he was very nervous, so he accidentally inserted an extra word — «against».
#ViacheslavVolodin #TheStateDuma #lawofscoundrels #foreignagents #Leviathan #humanrights #repressions #Russia #Esopolanguage
«Fauda» sin señales de Hollywood. Cómo el 7 de octubre cambió la serie israelí más exitosa
El rodaje de la quinta temporada de «Fauda» debía comenzar en el otoño de 2023, pero el 7 de octubre lo cambió todo. Como resultado del ataque de Hamás, 1200 israelíes fueron asesinados y otros 251 quedaron como rehenes. Israel declaró por primera vez en los últimos 50 años el estado de guerra. Varios miembros del equipo de rodaje fueron movilizados, el productor de la serie, Matan Meir, murió durante su servicio en la Franja de Gaza, y el actor Idan Amedi, intérprete de uno de los papeles principales, sufrió heridas graves. Al principio se pensó en aplazar el trabajo, pero los autores comprendieron rápidamente que, por mucho que se retrasara, ya nunca sería posible filmar según el guion existente.
#war #Israel #Palestine #series #7dollarterroristattack #Hamas
«Jesus Christ really existed. And his name was Radomir»
To celebrate the Night of Ivan Kupala according to the customs of the ancestors, you need to call the phone number listed in one of the thematic Telegram channels in advance. Get instructions. On the appointed day, put on a simple light dress, take the commuter train at Kursky Station, and about two hours later get off at a sparsely populated station in the Vladimir region. Every year on the eve of the Summer Solstice Day, pagan Rodnovers gather here and celebrate their main holiday for a full day, symbolizing the peak of nature’s bloom and fertility. Journalist from «Most.Media» spent this day with them.
#WarinUkraine #lifeinRussia #Myths #society #Orthodoxy #religion #reportage #Slavs #ultraright #paganism
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