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Robert Steuckers explores how Ragnarök, the end of the world in Scandinavian mythology, reflects ancient eschatological themes of the Apocalypse in Christianity and Indo-European, Zoroastrian, and Buddhist traditions.
The adoption of Orthodoxy by Vladimir, the Grand Prince of Kiev, marked the starting point of the Christian cycle in Russian history, which spans almost the entire history of Russia — with the exception of the Soviet period and the era of liberal reforms. This cycle represents a complex and multidimensional process, which would be inaccurate to describe as a gradual and unidirectional penetration of Orthodox-Byzantine culture into the folk environment, simultaneously displacing pre-Christian (‘pagan’) beliefs.
Vladimir Putin addressed, via videoconference, the plenary session of the World Russian People’s Council. The key topic of the forum, dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the organisation’s establishment, is the Present and Future of the Russian World.
The U.S. uses the full range of available methods, tools and occasions to put pressure on other states. Hybrid warfare as such involves the use of all spheres of activity that are associated with human life and societies.
Intervention in the internal affairs of foreign states became a major direction of U.S. foreign policy soon after the end of World War II. The key instrument for achieving these goals was an agency with virtually unlimited powers, approved under the National Security Act of 1947, called the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Proponents of the liberal rule-based order must have looked on worried as pictures of millions of Shia men beating their chests chanting “Ya Hussain” were emanating from countries NATO i
With this title I intend to paraphrase the poetry of the real Francis, the Saint of Assisi, as a source of wisdom and a postulate of higher civilization.
Western Europeans see the Orthodox and eastern Christians as satraps and a bunch of smugglers, while the Orthodox regard the Crusaders as barbarian usurpers bent on world conquest.
In an essay several years ago, we looked at the likenesses and differences between the histories of Serbia and Dixie, particularly as it rel
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