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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... →

19/02/2016 - 16:51

Russia once again is approaching a breaking point at which reform may become inevitable. Ironically, any effective program of political... →

28/01/2016 - 19:30

Fyodor Lukyanov, Academic director of the Valdai Discussion Club Foundation. The death of Georgy Ilyich Mirsky is an irreparable loss. We... →

17/01/2016 - 17:52

On January 16, 2011, on Avenue Habib Bourghiba in Tunis, during one of the clashes between protesters and police who weren’t sure what they... →

17/01/2016 - 17:40

Given that so much of our culture is now predominantly digital, then, how will it last through the centuries? How will all the information... →

22/11/2015 - 13:49

There is no other language, for example, that is close enough to English that we can get about half of what people are saying without... →

09/11/2015 - 14:49

In “The Invention of the Jewish People” (published in English in 2010), Sand informed us that aside from himself, no one – or at least no... →

05/11/2015 - 15:29

Bumpology The story starts with a collection of dozens of tiny ceramic heads – all different shapes and sizes – kept at the Science Museum... →

04/11/2015 - 13:02

To counter this narrative, the Palestinians have, for years, cultivated the "Canaanite myth." On Palestinian television programs, the... →

30/10/2015 - 17:46

In today’s Russia it is not fashionable to delve too deeply into Gulag history, and 60-year-old Panikarov’s collection is one of just two... →

01/10/2015 - 16:06

Meanwhile the internet, much like the written word, struggles to reflect the linguistic diversity of the spoken word. According to the UN,... →

27/09/2015 - 13:24

Of course, a history of intimacy does not preclude separation, as divorce lawyers can attest. And the two countries had been “divorced” for... →

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