At the beginning of the last century, a phenomenon such as the “Black Hundreds” developed in Russia.
Initially, it meant an informal movement of Russian chauvinists and anti-Semites who aggressively oppressed Jews and enemies of the monarchy.
Over time, the meaning of this word has changed, but personally in my perception, the “Black Hundreds” …
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Today a friend told me a story.
Yesterday the class teacher of her daughter, who is a school-leaver, called her to school. She invited her to the office, closed the door and very confidently informed my friend that they had managed to come to an agreement with the …
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Today I got a call from a relative, living in Kyzylorda region.
She has a disabled husband, three children, she has several jobs, doing her best to make both ends meet.
She said she needed help, her voice pleading.
‘What …
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The state has two ways: either to do everything right, and then the media will praise it, or do everything wrong, and pay the media money so that they say that it is doing everything right.…
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So why did Russia was really punished for and why its’ national team was not allowed for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Korea?
The article of the English “Guardian” details the report of the Head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) commission to investigate the facts of the use and concealment of doping in Russia by …
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One of the creations of the Kremlin propaganda says that the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) secretly gave permission to some American athletes (for example, Williams sisters) to use illegal drugs, while Russian athletes were banned. And the supposedly heroic efforts of the hacker group called “Fancy Bears” helped to uncover this injustice.
And now comes the …
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Modern politics has a very painful question, which has not been unequivocally answered over the years.
Where is the line between the fight for independence and separatism?
After all, almost always, when some are fighting for independence of their nationality or their territory, there are others who consider it as separatism and fight against …
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– Uncle Marat. Why do you listen to old songs? What is good about them? I do not even understand what they are about.
– Try to listen, my nephew. If you do not understand, I will explain.
Listen to this:
“Circular bail smears like soot.”
You recently entered the …
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Everybody knows the history of St. George ribbons. The Order of St. George was established in 1769 to reward the Russian military in the war with Turkey. Then, in the Soviet Union it was canceled, and in 2000, Russia restored it.
The Guards ribbon was established in 1942 to designate guards units, formations and ships that …
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As it happens, in 2017 I lived in South Korea for about a month.
What do I want to say?
It is a typical Asian country with a distinctive eastern mentality. Here the elder are venerated, the family values are strong, the collective is considered more important than the personal, the mores are not …
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