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American democracy in action is as perturbing and frustrating to watch for a US citizen as it is confounding to outsiders. It’s become especially true in this age of extreme partisan politics, where legislation is prepared, debated, stalled, passed, or killed through parliamentary procedures and processes that are opaque even …

A 1964 portrait of actress Marilyn Monroe by American artist Andy Warhol, known as a leading figure in the pop art movement, sold for $195 million at Christie’s on Monday night, becoming the most expensive piece of American art ever and the most a 20th-century work has fetched at a …

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban says there are countries which will not be able to substitute Russian gas with the more expensive American alternative. Speaking to local radio station Kossuth on Friday, the Hungarian PM said Russian gas is his country’s only option, as Hungary is landlocked and won’t be …

Rome’s Casino di Villa Boncompagni Ludovisi, also known as Villa Aurora, home to the world’s only ceiling mural painted by Caravaggio, goes under the hammer on Tuesday in the “auction of the century.” The 2,800-square-meter (30,000 square feet) property located near Via Veneto is one of the most expensive homes …

Just look at the UK. In Britain, the Consumer Price Index, which measures the average change in prices over time of goods and services, leapt to 4.2% in October, its highest rate since 2012. But that official figure only tells half the story because the prices of other essentials have …

Lord Monckton is known as one of the world’s most vociferous climate-change sceptics. He has published many papers on the climate question and spoken extensively about the issue over the past 15 years. A policy adviser to former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, he has worked as …

Listen, and what is the scheme of a rise in price of domestic products? Import-all more or less clear. Rose cursed the dollar before death to advance his casket to the delight of the world not to get involved, agonizing Euro was swollen scary, not to know already — and …

The Russian government will be obliged “Rostelecom” to buy tablets Russian production for the population census in the year 2020 and to cancel the competition, which has already won the company for the supply of Chinese tablets. It’s more expensive at 2.3 billion rubles. After summing up the results of …

Elon Musk is unhappy that new American ships are more expensive than seats for astronauts on the Russian Soyuz. “It’s unfair,” responded the owner of the company SpaceX on the decision of NASA to pay Boeing $ 90 million. for the delivery of one astronaut to the International space station …

October 1, consumer loans will become unavailable for millions of Russians, in the best case they will have to agree to high. To deal with the debt load of the population, consumer loans will do even more. From October 1 the Central Bank will raise the rate of redundancy on …