Coming Up · Art · Society
This month, the countries taking part in the 2026 Venice Art Biennale must present their projects. Shortly before the final list of pavilions is published, South Africa has run into difficulties of a domestic (and possibly also foreign) nature over the approval of its national project. The selection committee, appointed
Museums · Society · Paris
Louvre staff continue their strike amid lack of progress in talks between the museum's management and the Ministry of Culture. The strikes, which began in mid-December, resumed on 5 January after a break for the holidays. The museum was closed today. The trade unions are demanding higher
NB! · Observations · Society · Humour
The United States remains a remarkable country, where the showing of identity documents at polling stations is a matter of debate. Remarkable indeed.
The East · Monarchies · Society · People
Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi Announces Readiness to Return to Iran. Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi and Empress Farah Pahlavi, the son and wife of the last Shah of Iran, have expressed a wish to return to their country throughout all 47 years of their forced exile. And now, after two weeks
Art · Heritage · Society
Court Reopens 2017 Case in Which More Than 20 Stolen Works of Art, Including Seven by Picasso, Were Seized from a House in a Suburb of Nice. The police officers acted undercover, passing themselves off as a Swiss buyer and his assistant. The operation was prompted by information received from
Books · Museums · Observations · Society
Let us recall the good things! Returning to the interesting December publications on the channel 📌 On the unification of the Christian denominations 📌 Comet 3I/ATLAS: the finest interstellar light show in history 📌 Why we buy books 📌 Chronicles of the most famous flood in Moscow 📌 “Homo homini amicus, collega et frater
Faith · Society · People · Rome
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Geography · Observations · Society · Humour
On the one hand, it is remarkable to see the comic cliché of Americans believing they can buy anything on earth made flesh in the hypothetical purchase of Greenland. On the other, however sociopathic it may look, who can seriously suppose that people would be ready to sell their homeland
Geography · Observations · Society
Why does the plot of acquiring Greenland not look all that fantastical? One need only recall the history of the United States and its bargain purchases. In 1803 Louisiana was bought from France for roughly 15 million dollars. As a result, its territories went, wholly or in part, to form:
Geography · Society
The USA, that is to say, in all likelihood, Donald Trump, is considering paying each resident of Greenland between $10,000 and $100,000 in return for backing secession from Denmark. The current population of Greenland is about 56,831. The cost of the "project" could therefore range
Archive · In the Press · Geography · Society
The first mentions of Chernobyl in the Western press are connected with pogroms: March 1919, hundreds of Jews killed in Ukraine, in Berdichev, Zhitomir, Chernobyl, Ovruch, Belaya Tserkov, Letichev, Elisavetgrad, Vasilkov and other places.
Cinema · Society · People · Pop Culture
Yesterday the world bade farewell to Brigitte Bardot: the 91-year-old actress was laid to rest in a cemetery overlooking the Mediterranean, where her parents are also buried. Macron did not appear at the farewell ceremony, the funeral or the official requiem mass. The Bardot family did not respond