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51% of Europe's area lies within the territory of the former USSR, and if one takes the Russian Empire, rather more still
Geography · Observations · Society · Humour
The Trans-Eurasian Development Belt and experts' doubts over its multitrillion-dollar cost
Remember how, in 2015, the head of Russian Railways proposed building a super-highway from London to New York across the whole of Eurasia and North America, to include a railway, a motorway and oil pipelines? The project was called the Trans-Eurasian Belt Development, but the prospect of its
NB! · Books · Observations
What a fine word, and alas fallen out of circulation: “fellow-man”
NB! · The East · Geography · Maps · Observations
Relief map of Asia showing the West Siberian Plain and mountain systems
A relief map of Asia. On the one hand, one is struck by the singularity of the West Siberian Plain; on the other, by the impassable wall of mountain systems running from west to east.
NB! · Observations · Society · Humour
If we live in a society of the spectacle, show me the brilliant playwright who managed to devise wind turbines powered by diesel generators
Cinema · Observations · Humour
Does it not strike you that a spyglass is most conveniently put to the eye on the same side as the hand that holds it?
Does it not strike you that a spyglass is most conveniently put to the eye on the same side as the hand that holds it? Clearly not the left hand to the right eye. The question, properly speaking, is for Tsar Saltan, from what is probably the finest screen adaptation
Archaeology · Observations · Paris
Digest of July publications on Charlie Hebdo, excavations at Pompeii and Ithaca, and La Scala
July gives way to August, time for a digest of the month's publications. Charlie Hebdo, archaeological discoveries, underground luxury factories, ancient Greek heroes, French actresses and much more in a selection of the channel's key materials 📌 The personal recollections of the daughter of the founder of
NB! · Archive · Art · Observations
The impression made by Alberto Giacometti's sculptures at the Venice Biennale in 1962
NB! · Observations · Nature
The roseate spoonbill, an ibis family bird of North, Central and South America
Good Lord, what a beautiful bird! The roseate spoonbill, of the ibis family, is found in South America, Central America and the south of North America
Books · Monarchies · Observations · Science
Samovlastye in Dahl's dictionary and samovlastnost as an equivalent of Bataille's souveraineté
Ivan the Terrible Ruled as an Autocrat, Now Wisely and Sagely, Now Recklessly and Cruelly. Autocracy (samovlastye), according to V.I. Dahl's Explanatory Dictionary, is unlimited power, strength, will, or the right of disposal, constrained by nothing, felt and perceived as a right or a quality. The word
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