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October 15, 2025 | 20:43

KGB stayed the KGB: “Talk to the nachalnik, then take a walk”

“The chance to speak Russian without an accent” — that’s how the chief explained his curiosity about our company. We, for our part, admitted that we’d never before shared a table with an officer of the Russian FSB.

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October 6, 2025 | 15:57

Two Cultures of Denunciation

Or, as Stalin would have put it, it’s class war. And if it’s class war, perhaps I should just stick to my own class standpoint and continue to oppose snitching in almost all circumstances. But wait...

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September 7, 2025 | 15:38

An Armenian Reformer in Khrushchev’s Kremlin — A Conversation with Pietro A. Shakarian

Khrushchev had a different and much more utopian approach. He believed that national differences were no longer relevant. Mikoyan said “no”.

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October 11, 2025 | 15:36

Not everybody can become an entrepreneur: Shamshadin

“The only thing this government has done right is asphalt.”

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September 15, 2025 | 22:59

Background Noise in Ideology

I am not even saying ‘politics is the unconscious,’ but only ‘the unconscious is politics’

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August 27, 2025 | 18:31

‘Sew Faster’ at Gunpoint: Indian Workers Strike at Ijevan Factory

Workers both live and work on-site, under continuous surveillance—more than 40 cameras are installed throughout the premises...

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