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It’s Saturday, and I NEED a beer!  I don’t mean pulling a crappy can of low-fat, alcohol-free ale from the fridge and sitting on the sofa in front of the TV. No. That lockdown lager sipping is simply not the same thing. I mean I need a pint of beer. …

Government officials confirmed that Abakar Kaplanov, the former head of the village of Novokuli, was killed over a reported land dispute as part of an initial incident that led to hundreds of people taking to the streets, shown in footage shared by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan on Saturday. Reports …

“Where is the line between a successful global business, in-demand services and consolidation of big data – and attempts to harshly and unilaterally govern society, replace legitimate democratic institutions, restrict one’s natural right to decide for themselves how to live, what to choose, what stance to express freely?” Putin wondered. Addressing …

In 1938 the great Irishman William Butler Yeats wrote a poem called ‘Politics’. It could perhaps, more accurately have been entitled ‘Anti-Politics’. War is looming, everything is political, “And there’s a politician That has both read and thought” in the room but Yeats reminds us there is something much more …

Ludwig van Beethoven’s 250th birthday passed on Thursday, and the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels celebrated the iconic composer’s in truly modern fashion: by exhibiting artist Terry Adkins’ 2004 work ‘Synapse’ – a video depicting Beethoven’s frumpy visage morphing into that of a young black man with dreadlocks. The …

In a situation with the Khabarovsk Governor, we see a lovely example of when society, which, however, no one asks, should choose someone who believes less “authoritative” to the businessman close to Zhirinovsky or at least “authoritative” bodies. I would like to say — eat each other, but the problem …

The results of the vote are declared, they are completely predictable and completely useless. The government had their say, now it is the turn of companies. In the coming days we will better understand the real scale of fraud, coercion of voters and other manipulations. But we can already say …

The Kremlin provides the appearance of power, but can not generate confidence in the procedure. St. Petersburg 1.1 million voters — 28% of the total of 28 June have already voted (early) for amendments to the Constitution. The vast majority of them “state employees” and pensioners: the first city government …

26 Jun in the Meshchansky district court of Moscow was announced the verdict for the defendants in the case, “the Seventh Studio”. All the defendants, except former employee of the Ministry of culture Sofia Apfelbaum, was found guilty of fraud in especially large size. Kirill Serebrennikov and Yury itina was …

We have the power less disgusting than society. Power, sooner or later, reveals its own deformity. Power, in any case, not forever, as history shows. And the company insists on its cultural exceptionalism, but it creates such monsters, against which monsters Goya seem to be angels. Here no one is …