Coming Up · Cinema · Pop Culture · Humour
And what if Ebenezer Scrooge were put through our weather?
The old skinflint is played this time by Johnny Depp. The film is due out in autumn 2026
Alexandr Radayev
Faith · Art · Museums
The Dormition of the Virgin
Maso di Banco, c. 1335 Château de Chantilly
Science · Education · Society · People
Robert Maxwell and the subscription model of peer review in scientific journals
And do you know what else hardly anyone is discussing? That Robert Maxwell, father of Epstein's partner in crime, was the architect of the peer review system. So. A media magnate, about whom there are quite serious and widely discussed allegations of ties to Israeli intelligence, or at
Art · Observations · Society
A Boy Spells Out the Word “Stalin” with Building Blocks
A porcelain figurine from the Kyiv factory. Model of 1952. Theme: “Happy Childhood”. Designed by Svetlana Golembovskaya. Overglaze hand painting, gilding, loveliness... But you know, it is all so strange. Why should a child know the name of the head of state at all, why bring his image into his
Society · Pop Culture
A new culture of refunds is taking shape in Russia: for shoddy goods and services, including events and concerts, Russians increasingly claim their money back through the bank rather than the aggregator
A new culture of refunds is taking shape in Russia: for shoddy goods and services, including events and concerts, Russians increasingly claim their money back through the bank rather than the aggregator. In December 2025 and January 2026, T-Bank registered twice as many ticket refund requests as a year
Faith · The East · Heritage
Killings of Orthodox Christians in Beijing during the Yihetuan Uprising of June 1900
The icon "Synaxis of the Holy Chinese Martyrs" glorifies the Orthodox Christians who suffered martyrdom during the Boxer Rebellion in Beijing in 1900. By the beginning of the twentieth century several hundred Orthodox Christians lived in Beijing, and almost all of them were killed in the course of
Archive · Geography · Books · Society
...yet there are many remote places in Russia, five hundred versts and more without a town, veritable refuges for brigands and all manner of fugitive and passportless people
...yet there are many remote places in Russia, five hundred versts and more without a town, veritable refuges for brigands and all manner of fugitive and passportless people. An example may be seen in the wooded expanse around the river Vetluga, which, stretching seven hundred versts in its course from
Archive · Observations · Mores · Ethnography
A herdsman with a barabanka and mallets calls the cattle in a photograph by Zakhar Vinogradov
A drummer-shepherd calls the herd at dawn in a photograph of 1910-11 by Zakhar Vinogradov, from the series “In the Lands Beyond the Volga and Along the Vetluga”. The historic photograph captures a shepherd summoning the herd at dawn with the help of traditional Russian wooden instruments, the
Art · Moscow · Museums
“The Sacrifice of Iphigenia” and Dufresnoy’s “Rinaldo and Armida” after Tasso’s poem
"The Sacrifice of Iphigenia" by Jean Tassel in the Salon of the Cupid Hall of the Arkhangelskoye Estate. Agamemnon is about to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia to the goddess Artemis in order to secure a fair wind for the fleet at Aulis. The departure of the Greek fleet
Faith · Books · Observations
Remember how in Pelevin the oligarchs are ranked beneath the so-called Chaldeans
Remember how in Pelevin the oligarchs are ranked beneath the so-called Chaldeans. The Chaldeans are the retainers of the vampires who suck money dry and who invented banks in order to step up the sucking of this energy. There is, naturally, only one way out: love of the Lord.
Museums · Heritage · Society · Paris
At least 90,000 African artefacts in French museums and the procedure for their return
The French Senate Approves a Bill Easing the Restitution of Cultural Property to Former Colonies. The country's museums hold no fewer than 90,000 artefacts removed from Africa during the period of the Second French Colonial Empire. Current French legislation complicates the return of these objects: each item
Listings · Moscow · Coming Up · Art · Museums
A new selection of exhibitions in Moscow
📌 Lev Povzner’s solo exhibition “Куда ночь, туда и сон” at the Alina Pinsky gallery — until 21 February 📌 Olesya Novikova’s solo exhibition “Сарафаны сна” at Cube.Moscow — until 1 March 📌 Sergey Bugayev-Afrika’s solo exhibition “Rebus” at SISTEMA GALLERY — until 8 March 📌 The exhibition “The Romanovs. From Peterhof