Visa-free travel may not seem like a big deal, but it throws a spanner in the works of the rhetoric about a “closed” and “bad-for-business” Beijing By Timur Fomenko, political analyst Last week, Beijing announced that the citizens of six EU countries – Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal – will be allowed to…
A bizarre flashmob emerged out of a student prank in the city of Yekaterinburg, according to local media reports A prank by students of the Russian Ural Federal University (URFU) in the city of Yekaterinburg has ended with police intervention, the local media reported on Monday. The youths erected a four-meter-high snow phallus sculpture in…
Classical subjects are being discarded in favor of “gender and similar pseudosciences,” the Russian president said Schools and universities in the West have abandoned the liberal arts in favor of gender studies and other “pseudosciences,” Russian President Vladimir Putin remarked in a speech on Tuesday.