Faith · Science · Society · People · Rome
In May, Leo XIV named artificial intelligence as one of the most important problems facing humanity. He observed that AI may create obstacles to “human dignity, justice and labour”
Art · Observations · Society · Reportage · Ethnography
We have already said a great deal about Blazar, but I cannot help returning once more to the design section that so appealed to me, and dwelling on one of its brightest stands: the stand of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, designed by the architect Misha Maslov, which the fair named
London · Monarchies · Society
King Charles III received Trump at Windsor Castle during his state visit to Britain. The presidential aircraft, moreover, landed literally in the garden of Windsor Castle, the oldest and largest continuously inhabited castle in the world. The presidential couple were welcomed by the Prince and Princess of Wales; Trump then
Observations · Society
What madness! British zealots have proposed removing the name of the greatest goalkeeper, Lev Yashin, from the award named after him and given to the season's best goalkeeper
Archive · Books · Society · Saint Petersburg
Illustrations to the rare émigré publication “There! Pictures of the Soviet Paradise” of the early 1920s. The new life in Bolshevik Petrograd is depicted by the authors with scrawny cows in city courtyards, starving people in a canteen, unbuttoned sailors and their drunken girlfriends from the Cheka, and workers sleeping
Faith · Interviews · Society · People
Pope Leo XIV. Prevost voiced this thought in a recent interview entitled "Synodality", which presents it as the way in which believers are together and strive for communion, embodied by the Church. Church belonging he calls an antidote to polarisation. If we listen to the Gospel, if we
Education · Society · People · Pop Culture
In Krasnoyarsk, an airport and the state opera and ballet theatre are named after Dmitri Hvorostovsky. At this theatre Dmitri Hvorostovsky was a soloist from 1985 to 1990. Krasnoyarsk is Hvorostovsky's native city: here he studied at a music school and in the music department of a teacher
The East · Museums · Society · Saint Petersburg
Mikhail Piotrovsky announces the opening of new Hermitage centres abroad, in Oman and South Korea. The centres in Korea and Oman are the first overseas satellites of the Hermitage to be announced since 2022.
Science · Education · Society · Humour
The Russian part of the Unified State List of Scientific Publications, the "White List", has recently been compiled. In all, 3120 journals have made it onto the list, which is to say practically the whole of the former "VAK list". We are told that "the
Faith · Observations · Society
Millions of Christians took to the streets of Moscow, Saint Petersburg, London… Europe, wake up, it is high time!
Moscow · Observations · Heritage · Society
Some Time Alone with a Beloved City. On this day, Moscow Day, we must remember as never before that it lies in our power alone to preserve Moscow from vulgarity and the spirit of the age, from being grabbed by the greasy hands of capitalists, from ignorant petty officials, from
Archive · The East · Society · People
Lenin in a Wig, August 1917. Looking at this face, aflame with insidious schemes, one cannot help asking: was Lenin a German spy after all, or a German agent? That Germany financed the Russian revolution is known for a fact. What remains in question is precisely how the revolutionaries spent