Museums · Observations · Society
Following the Louvre, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has announced financial difficulties. In a recently published press release, the administration stated that the museum will close unless the Dutch government allocates additional funds for renovation. According to the statement, the authorities are "failing to keep the promise"
The East · Observations · Society
Putin, Modi, Xi. From a historical point of view, this would be a very interesting alliance.
Archive · Books · Museums · Society · People · Saint Petersburg
The Akhmatova Museum in the Fountain House holds collections of verse with pasted-over pages. It is reported that Akhmatova herself pasted these pages shut. What is beneath? Akhmatova's poems about Stalin. It is believed that Anna Andreyevna was compelled to write them in order to help her
Observations · Society · Humour
A Journalist's Memorandum:. Inventing fresh news requires no great store of intellect
Faith · Society
This icon recalls the 14,000 infant souls slaughtered by order of the tetrarch Herod. The murdered children of Bethlehem are venerated as the first martyrs for Christ. Today this icon is prayed before by parents who, following the example of Herod, have dealt with their own children by destroying
Archive · Moscow · Observations · Society
I was leafing through an album of photographs of 1930s Moscow and came upon a picture of Theatre Square decked out for May Day with outline models of tractors and ploughs. You know, for all the naivety and artlessness of such agitational dressing of urban spaces, it looks far better
Faith · Education · Society
From 1 September 2025, Russian schools will begin cutting the hours devoted to foreign languages. In Years 5 to 7, the number of lessons will fall from three to two a week, while the total number of hours for the subject in Years 5 to 9 will drop from 510
NB! · Moscow · Society
Faith · Observations · Society · People
Europe will be all right when we see its rulers at prayer in church, and not at pop concerts. It would be as well, of course, if they looked like Charles de Gaulle in church in 1960
Architecture · Faith · The East · Heritage · Society
It is reported that the Armenian Cathedral of the Holy Virgin in Ani, the capital of medieval Bagratid Armenia, in present-day eastern Turkey on the border with Armenia, is to be turned into a mosque. The cathedral has enormous historical and symbolic significance for Armenians. The thousand-year-old
Archive · Faith · The East · Society
During the ethnic cleansing of the Nakba, a consequence of the creation of the State of Israel, Jewish militias expelled more than 750,000 people from Palestine in 1948, including 90,000 Palestinian Christians, and destroyed or forced the closure of around thirty Christian churches
Moscow · Society · Nature
Our river will grow cleaner and cleaner with every year. I hope that soon it will be possible to swim in the Moskva River along its entire length