Tag: Russian

English is one of the most popular languages in the world, spoken by thousands of people. What should you do if you’ve moved to an English-speaking country and don’t speak the language at all, like our heroine? Irena arrived in the USA very recently and experiences embarrassment every...

In Russia, a peculiar superstition has woven its way into the fabric of daily life — one that links whistling indoors to a foreboding prediction of financial misfortune. Let’s explore this intriguing belief and the cultural nuances that connect whistling, intelligence, and wealth in Russ...

At first glance, nuclear fusion and the much-heralded collapse of Russia under its simple-minded dictator Putin would seem to be as different as it is possible to get. Look a little deeper, however, and the similarities leap to the surface. For those who don’t pay attention to physics, nucl...

We were there in 1946. Russia in those years had extensive documentation on Nazi technology; some even many German scientists were taken to Soviet lands to collaborate in the country’s arms growth. Kapustin Yar was an excellent location. A desolate region 100 kilometers from Stalingrad...

No fewer than ten members of the U.S. House of Representatives and ten members of the U.S. Senate are agents of the Russian Federation. Before I get around to naming names, I will establish my credentials. Before I turned to the academic route, I was an intelligence analyst. I did not run agent...

“This is not a time to allow Pride celebrations to go away,” said noted LGBTQ-rights activist Cleve Jones in The Press Democrat. “In our opinion, this is a time to make sure these things happen.” He teamed with Brian Hughes of Russian River Alliance and Juanita More t...

Whenever an organization releases statistics, especially organizations that are openly pushing a certain narrative, it’s always interesting to me to figure out what they were thinking when they released it, what they intended it to mean, and what it actually means. China released economic data...

It is no longer if Russia is planning to attack the whole alliance of NATO, but rather the question is of when. Russian forces experienced enormous amount of casualties in Ukraine, reports are coming in saying that Russian military is underperforming in Ukraine, however,&nbs...