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The clash between Caesar and Cato offers lessons for today, but also reveals the gulf between modern and classical thought.

Anne Tyler, Amita Parikh, Elena Gorokhova and Eliza Knight offer new reads perfect for Mother’s Day giving

Whenever Russians discuss the stock market on social media, curious words and phrases regularly pop up, such as лось (‘los’; ‘elk’) - which must often be зарезан (‘zarezat’; ‘butchered’), or a ракета (‘raketa’; ‘rocketship’) that must be boarded. Then there are the hilarious diminutive versions of Russian names... 

DATES. EVENTS. PEOPLE. On October 21st, 1966, the Yak-40 passenger aircraft — the world’s first jet aircraft designed for local ...

Brief recollections of World War II–by the son of a Soviet military leader and Left Oppositionist murdered by Stalin: Part 1 These recollections about the Nazi-Soviet war of 1941–45 were written by Yuri Primakov, who experienced the war as a teenager, and is now 94 years old. Yuri Primakov was born in 1927 and lives in Moscow. He was born into a revolutionary family. His mother, Maria Dovzhik, fought in the civil war but left the Bolshevik Party in 1922. His father, Vitaly Primakov, joined ...