A fuel crisis keeps spreading across Russia.
I ran the country's largest oil company. Let me explain what is actually happening — and why the Kremlin cannot stop it. 🧵[1/12]
Dostoevsky’s home in St.Petersburg.
Here he wrote The Brothers Karamazov.
He moved here with his wife Anna and their children after the death of their young son Alyosha, hoping for a fresh start.
Here, he spent the last years of his life.
What did ancient Persia sound like around 1400 BC? 🎶 Hear it here!
Sarah Parsaei performs on the Arjan harp — a historic instrument with roots going back nearly 3,400 years — in Tehran, Iran.
what's left unsaid is that our society deserves food that only looks like food, men and women that only look like men and women, movies that only look like movies, music that has lyrics with no sense... epicureanism 2.0 ?!
A Santorin, île grecque, dès 7 heures du matin, les gens font la queue pour accéder à un promontoire pour faire une photo. Ils font tous la même photo qu’ils publient sur les mêmes réseaux sociaux. Cette époque est effrayante.
@Mylovanov I don't know who needs this, but when you learn russian culture and literature they always valued honour, honesty, courage, sincerity. only later you figure that's because those are rarely found in real life. communism erased Russia, you've got ugly post-soviet rotten society
@RealMattCouch@robkhenderson introduced "luxury beliefs" for a reason. check out him and @jordanbpeterson on a podcast related to dating apps, it's very much related to this conversation
OTD in 1940, the Soviet Red Army invaded Latvia, beginning 50 years of Soviet occupation. Brutal repressions and the murder of innocent civilians followed.
Russia has not changed. Its ongoing war against Ukraine and hybrid-war clearly show why the aggressor must be defeated now.
@DevanaUkraine the same question is: why people are frightened by serial killers, not by the most prolific one of this century? the one that started this war? the one that sits in Kremlin
The Russian publication "Mediazona" created a map of Russian soldiers killed in the war against Ukraine, from which regions by surname, but these are only those who are known.
@erikkannike if I am correct in a weekly @meduzaproject podcast Dmitrij Kuznec stated that before entering Baltic air space, people in bordering Russian regions receive notifications about drones, which confirms they fly in RU airspace and could change course loosing signal
For 37 years, over 2,000 images taken by a Chinese state media photographer were hidden in a metal box, surviving brutal purges—until now.
These raw, powerful photos show the courage of the students, the scale of the protests, and the horror of what the Chinese Communist Party did.
Now, The @EpochTimes is making the photos public for the first time. [1/2]