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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

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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

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...

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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

Observations · Society · Humour

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

Archaeology · Geography · Observations · Science

Wooden tools about 430,000 years old found on a lake shore in Greece

Wooden tools found on the shore of a lake in Greece are believed by scholars to be the oldest known to date. Their age is estimated at roughly 430,000 years. I remain convinced, all the same, that half a million years is a rather modest figure beside the true

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Is the Grenadier Swaggering Before Napoleon, or Merely Bristling?

Architecture · Observations · Society · Rome

Rome introduces a 2 euro charge for tourists to approach the Trevi Fountain

From Monday, a close-up view of Rome's iconic Trevi Fountain will cost money. The price for tourists and non-residents of Rome is 2 euros. The system will operate daily from 09:00 to 22:00, except on Mondays and Fridays, when public access will open at

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Should any boyar, okolnichy, Duma man, clerk (dyak), or other judge, whether for bribes, for friendship, or for enmity, convict the innocent plaintiff or defendant and acquit the guilty, and the matter be proven true, then from such judges the plaintiff's

Should any boyar, okolnichy, Duma man, clerk (dyak), or other judge, whether for bribes, for friendship, or for enmity, convict the innocent plaintiff or defendant and acquit the guilty, and the matter be proven true, then from such judges the plaintiff's claim shall be recovered threefold and given

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