NB! · Faith · Society · Humour

When you learn that the United States has declared itself the Lord's envoy on Earth

Monarchies · Moscow · Society · People

After his victory at the Battle of the River Cherekha in 1436, during the feudal war of the fifteenth century, Vasily Vasilyevich, Grand Duke of Vladimir and Moscow, ordered one eye to be put out of his cousin and rival for the Muscovite throne, Prince Va

After his victory at the Battle of the River Cherekha in 1436, during the feudal war of the fifteenth century, Vasily Vasilyevich, Grand Duke of Vladimir and Moscow, ordered one eye to be put out of his cousin and rival for the Muscovite throne, Prince Vasily Yuryevich, who thereafter received

Observations · Society · People

Thatcher's departure from Parliament in 1992 and her later years

Incidentally, when Thatcher won the election in 1987 for the third time, some political scientists predicted that she would remain in power until 2000, when she would have turned 75. But she chose to leave Parliament in 1992, at the age of 66, after which she continued her political activity,

NB! · Archive · In the Press · London · Society · People · Humour

You Must Put Up With Her for Another Five Years

You must put up with her for another five years. The front-page headline of the Daily Mirror after Margaret Thatcher was elected for a third term as Prime Minister in 1987. The forecast, incidentally, proved wrong: the Iron Lady resigned in 1990

NB! · Faith · Society · People · Rome

So that the condition of Pope Francis's knee should not worsen, the pontiff has, on his doctors' insistence, postponed the apostolic journey to Africa planned for July

Moscow · Museums · Heritage · Society · Reportage

Meyerhold Museum in Bryusov Lane closed after the liquidation of the TsIM centre

Soon after the liquidation of the TsIM, the Meyerhold Theatre and Cultural Centre, the Meyerhold Museum closed as well, though this closure passed almost unnoticed by the public. With the TsIM one can still guess at the reasons for what is going on, but why should the blow have fallen

NB! · Science · Society · People · Humour

Isaac Newton Breaks Russian Law by Investigating the Dispersion of Light

NB! · Art · Society · Paris · Humour

The bottom of the allegory of Abundance from the sculptural group Triumph of the Republic (1879–99) by the Louvre curator Jules Dalou is plastered with leaflets of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the alliance of France's left-wing forces, who has thus expre

London · Monarchies · Society · Humour

Packed Off to Kamchatka for Bad Behaviour

At the service in St Paul's Cathedral marking Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee, Prince Harry and his wife were seated far from their closest relatives, Prince Charles and Prince William. After Harry's hostile sallies against the family, his father personally, and life at Buckingham Palace,

NB! · Education · Society

Rumours of a Return to the Soviet System of Higher Education Turn Out to Be Somewhat Exaggerated

NB! · Archaeology · Monarchies · Society

As a Mark of Respect to the Queen, Eight Portraits of Elizabeth II Projected onto the Stones of Stonehenge

Faith · Society

Serbian Church restores communion with Macedonian Church and recognises its autocephaly

The Primate of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Porfirije, Announces the Autocephaly of the Macedonian Church. A week ago the Assembly of Serbian Bishops restored canonical communion with the Macedonian Orthodox Church, which had been broken off in 1967, when the Macedonian bishops proclaimed an autocephaly of their own accord.