Stories

Masha Slonim – on the Salisbury poisoning and new public hearings on the case

The purpose of these public hearings is to get to the bottom of the circumstances surrounding the death of Dawn…

10 months ago

“An artist who creates music”: the story of pianist Anna Stasiuk

The artful sounds of the piano fill the walls of The Raffles, a historic hotel in central London, every evening.…

2 years ago

“Concorde”: the story of one supersonic failure

The story of the Concorde's creation The idea of a supersonic passenger airplane first emerged in the late 1950s in…

2 years ago

“An Orgy of the Righteous.” Alexei Zimin on the history of British thought. Chapter XI

Every nation has its guilty pleasures - somewhat embarrassing, reprehensible, or even shameful pleasures. Russians drink brine; Lithuanians consider zeppelins,…

2 years ago