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07/01/2015 - 14:19

Today, Russia’s leaders are starting to acknowledge the importance of this economic gap. In his annual State-of-the-Union-style address,... →

02/01/2015 - 13:33

Technically speaking, there are four “official” religions in Russia: Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Judaism. But given that almost 70... →

28/12/2014 - 16:20

Her glowing perspective may not represent all second- or third-generation survivors’ experiences, but she symbolizes the crème de la crème... →

22/12/2014 - 13:59

There was a bit of a problem with all of this natural selection stuff, though: Darwin didn’t know how it, uh, worked. Offspring had a mix... →

17/12/2014 - 14:44

A kind of miracle The next stage after graduation was to get her work published in journals. “It’s very hard for a new writer to get an... →

13/12/2014 - 14:35

There is a much better natural explanation for how a temporary path across the Red Sea could have been revealed. It involves the tide, a... →

07/12/2014 - 12:35

However, the click had some unfortunate side effects. It flooded the web with spam, linkbait, painful design and tricks that treated users... →

01/12/2014 - 15:24

The general atmosphere of mistrust between Russia and the West, especially the United States, also has an impact on Middle Eastern issues.... →

22/11/2014 - 15:02

To read Benjamin and the story of his life is to open a world of knowledge – especially that of the last century, which begins to look like... →

16/11/2014 - 18:46

This sounds rather complicated, yet we know perfectly well what Woolf is talking about. A new kind of book might offer pleasures we haven’t... →

12/11/2014 - 14:00

They repeat the great mantras of the era: The president is the president of “stability,” the antithesis to the era of “confusion and... →

08/11/2014 - 20:45

Icons of the Holy Land Using many examples, Rubin shows how Rashi’s sketches became iconic representations of the Holy Land. They were... →

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