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Your Sanctions Are Pipe Dreams, Mr Reagan!

Soviet people warmly approve the patriotic initiative of the labour collectives of the gas-pipeline builders, who have pledged their word to bring all the gas pipelines, the export pipeline included, into operation on schedule and ahead of it, notwithstanding the discriminatory sanctions undertaken by the US administration Yu. Galkin

Books · Observations · Society

Never has our future been so unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest…

Hannah Arendt

NB! · London · Society · People · Humour

As Jacob Rees-Mogg Demonstrates, the British Parliament Is a Place Not Only for Debate but for the Afternoon Nap

Observations · Society

In France There Will Be No Laws or Values Other Than French Ones

Marine Le Pen One would like to believe it

A mesh LED panel with blue, red and green lights on a facade, seen from below, with white ventilation pipes and glass structures behind.

Architecture · Observations · Society · Paris

The author criticises national culture becoming a backdrop for corporate interests

The façade of the Centre Pompidou has been entirely covered in LED strips, creating a vast canvas for Nike advertising. It is dreadful when national culture becomes nothing more than a backing for corporate interests

NB! · Books · Mores · Society

In the original version of the legend, Robin Hood did not hand out stolen riches to the poor: the people loved him already for merely hounding the wealthy, robbing abbots and bishops, mocking sheriffs and poaching on the king's land

Monarchies · Observations · Society · Humour

Catherine borrowed 100,000 roubles from the merchant Felten for agitation among the Guards

Political technologies, tried and tested over the centuries:. ..managed to stir up the guards' indignation against Peter Fyodorovich and to rouse sympathy for Catherine; and so that there should be no doubt as to the latter's kindness towards the guards, the conspirators warmed the mood of the

Observations · Education · Society

A bill awaited by educators would affect university lecturers and school teachers

Today the State Duma discussed Oleg Smolin's bill on reducing the paperwork burden on teaching staff. A very timely bill, long awaited by the teaching community, and one that concerns not only university lecturers but also schoolteachers, who are literally groaning under bureaucratic obligations and requirements. One would

Observations · Education · Society

The head of the Presidential Human Rights Council, Valery Fadeev, has proposed introducing conduct marks in schools and barring pupils with a fail in conduct from the OGE and the EGE

The head of the Presidential Human Rights Council, Valery Fadeev, has proposed introducing conduct marks in schools and barring pupils with a fail in conduct from the OGE and the EGE (the state examinations taken at the end of basic and secondary school). The Minister of Education, Sergey Kravtsov, has

NB! · Moscow · Heritage · Society

🕯️On the eve of 22 June, a memorial to the Great Patriotic War was opened on the Moskva River embankment in Muzeon Park

🕯️On the eve of 22 June, a memorial to the Great Patriotic War was opened on the Moskva River embankment in Muzeon Park. Set into the granite parapet are perpetual lamps, one for each day of the war: from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945.

NB! · Society · Pop Culture · Rome

On the eve of the Italy v Spain match at Euro 2024, supporters of the Italian national team unfurled an Italian shirt, apparently of American size, on the Spanish Steps in Rome

NB! · Archive · Monarchies · Society · Saint Petersburg

In her Decree to the Senate after the overthrow of Peter III, Catherine calls him not sovereign, not Grand Duke, not husband, not even Peter Fyodorovich, but "the former Emperor"

In her Decree to the Senate after the overthrow of Peter III, Catherine calls him not sovereign, not Grand Duke, not husband, not even Peter Fyodorovich, but "the former Emperor". Of herself, however, Catherine writes: "the true Sovereign" and "Our Imperial Majesty"