NB! · The East · Society · Humour

Naturally, the one Syrian refugee who actually is a doctor will not get into the EU

NB! · Interviews · Society · People · Humour

Trump's Interview with Pozner, Leaked Online

A lubok print of two wrestlers in bright coats and boots among flowers, with two eggs on the ground and a caption above.

Cinema · Society · Humour

Klim Shipenko tops the list of Russia's highest-grossing directors of 2024

News from an Alternate Universe:. The director Klim Shipenko, known for the films "The Challenge" and "Kholop 2", has taken first place in the list of Russia's highest-grossing directors of 2024

NB! · Society · Humour

The hand of the average man after shaking hands with Narendra Modi and after shaking hands with Trump

Red wooden plaque with the carved inscription “Долой чадру” (Down with the veil) on a dark wooden door.

NB! · Archive · The East · Society · Ethnography

Wooden 1920s propaganda placard from Central Asia calling for an end to the veil

Down with the Veil! Wooden placard, 1920s, Central Asia

Faith · Society · People

The Republic is secular, but France is Christian

Charles de Gaulle A pity that the Christian rulers of Europe parted with this idea so readily

NB! · Architecture · Faith · Society · Paris

Pope Francis will not come to the reopening of Notre-Dame, but Donald Trump will

Archive · Moscow · Society

The Legendary US Coat of Arms with Bugs, Presented to the American Ambassador in the USSR by Young Pioneers

The legendary US coat of arms with bugs, presented to the American ambassador in the USSR by Young Pioneers. A wood-carved copy of the Great Seal of the United States was presented to the ambassador by a delegation of Young Pioneers who had come on an excursion to the

Museums · Observations · Society

There Is No Such Thing as a Voluntary Change of Power

Museum directors, television channel heads, editors-in-chief of magazines, radio stations and newspapers, presidents of academies, university rectors, heads of film studios and theatres: all of them change very rarely indeed. YOU can readily recall all the names yourselves. In the leading institutions the management typically stays put not

Science · Education · Society · Pop Culture

Reference portal Gramota.ru names its editors' "words of the year"

In the opinion of Gramota.ru, the word of the year is "vaib" ("vibe"), while in the individual categories the winners were "prompt" (IT), "podcast" (culture), "microRNA" (medicine) and "marketplace" (economics)

Art · Cinema · Observations · Society · Pop Culture

Winners of the youth category at the Russian Creative Awards announced

We recently looked together at the shortlist of the Russian Creative Awards, which for the first time in a long while included a category for young figures in culture, art and the creative industries (established jointly with the Tavrida art cluster). The awards ceremony took place on Friday, and we

Courtyard of the Rostov Kremlin with a yellow administrative building, white chambers, green domes, a pond and people on the lawns.

NB! · Society

State Duma approves in first reading renaming of Rostov in Yaroslavl Region as Rostov Veliky

State Duma deputies have approved in first reading a bill renaming the town of Rostov in Yaroslavl Oblast as Rostov the Great. The document has been published in the legislative database of the lower house of parliament