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Wretched man that I am!

Wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Epistle to the Romans, 7:24 The Apostle laments and complains of the flesh, calling the earthly and voluptuous body a body of death, since it suffers within itself under the law of sin. But

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A Good Winter's Day to You, and May the Epstein Files Be the Worst Thing We Learn This Year!

Observations · Society

Author sees Greek crisis as a bank rescue and urges Southern Europe to leave the EU

By all appearances, the entire Greek debt crisis was fabricated to rescue German and French banks. All the austerity measures are being adopted to save the residents of Northern Europe, who have staked their money. The EU is finally doomed. Why is Greece in the EU? Southern Europe should follow

Aristocracy · Archive · Books · Observations · New York · Society · Paris · Saint Petersburg

Strange as it may seem, Pushkin and Eugene Onegin are mentioned in Epstein's correspondence

Strange as it may seem, Pushkin and Eugene Onegin are mentioned in Epstein's correspondence. The context is yet another girl whom he is being urged to take on. It is reported that she is connected to the Russian imperial family, and that her great-great-grandfather, a certain

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From Hitler to Epstein: Exactly One Rothschild

Books · Observations · Humour

"Doctor Zhivago" read by Kontsevich takes 25.5 hours, read by Borzunov 22.5 hours

See what the life-giving tempo and rhythm of speech can do

Archive · Society · People

Boris Yeltsin's 1992 family tree traces back to Anika Yeltsyn of the 18th century

The Descendants of Anika Sergeyev, Son of Yeltsyn. The family tree of Boris Yeltsin, compiled by Dmitry Panov and published in 1992 in Perm by the Association of Amateur Genealogists, goes back to Anika Sergeyev, son of Yeltsyn, who lived in the middle of the eighteenth century. The family hails

Cinema · Observations · Society

Another scene from the classics of world cinema comes involuntarily to mind in connection with the publication of the Epstein archive

Remember how in "The Death of Stalin" Beria rushes frantically to break open the safe in the leader's study and removes a folder of documents from it? And yet Beria was credited with crimes similar to Epstein's line of business...

NB! · Pop Culture · Humour

When you are a humble owner of a transnational corporation and have been invited round for pizza

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Rothschild and Co., or When the Common Man First Began to Suspect That All These So-Called Conspiracy Theories Were Not Theories at All

NB! · Books · Moscow

The First Rule of Patriarch's Ponds

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The Russian Federation has officially declined to call itself the successor of the Russian Empire, so as not to pay the debts of its pre-revolutionary obligations

The Russian Federation has officially declined to call itself the successor of the Russian Empire, so as not to pay the debts of its pre-revolutionary obligations. The USSR, for its part, had repudiated the foreign debt back in 1918. You understand, talk of the great past is another matter

Alexandr Radayev