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19/02/2016 - 17:04

The urgency to write what he had witnessed began with some scribbling in the camp, which he entered in 1944 and where he remained for the... →

14/02/2016 - 15:44

Altered Humans Significant physical alterations have seemed largely impossible until very recently. Even breakthroughs in genetics hint at... →

11/02/2016 - 19:54

Первые литературные опыты приходятся на время его сотрудничества в «Южном обозрении», которое редактировал будущий член кадетского ЦК А.С.... →

06/02/2016 - 16:05

The dichotomy between the new and the familiar in contemporary Russia can be broken down into a handful of contradictions that neither... →

31/01/2016 - 12:38

In The Lonely Crowd, the American sociologist David Riesman identified three broad cultural types: tradition-directed cultures that look to... →

25/01/2016 - 17:59

An evolutionary biologist trained at Oxford who also holds a doctorate in political science, Johnson believes that the need to find a more-... →

20/01/2016 - 14:05

It is ironic that such a prominent figure in science identifies scientific progress itself as the major source of new threats. On previous... →

15/01/2016 - 16:51

The Ukraine crisis changed everything. Russia’s March 2014 annexation of Crimea and the resulting Western sanctions brought about a clear... →

08/01/2016 - 15:17

Dutch disease was partly to blame. Russia could not escape the negative side effects of a booming natural resource sector despite enacting... →

04/01/2016 - 13:23

Taking C.P.R. Outside the Hospital A few months ago, after a swim in the pool at my health club, I walked past the exercise area and saw a... →

30/12/2015 - 15:11

The geopolitical danger arises from Putin’s growing reliance on military action abroad – in Ukraine and now in Syria – to maintain his... →

21/12/2015 - 15:16

At the end of that year, shortly after the law went into effect, the (now defunct) newspaper Herut reported that “120 individuals suspected... →

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