In the fourth year of the civil war, after typhoon Yagi killed more than 200 people and triggered severe flooding on hundreds of thousands of hectares of crops, after the sanctions of the US Treasury, the UK, Canada and European allies, in Myanmar, the former British colony of Burma, an earthquake followed along the Sagaing fault, which was not unexpected
On February 27, 2025, the tenth world champion, grandmaster of the Soviet amalgam of "chess for the masses" and long traditions, completed his life's journey. That Oblomov of chess, smart, noble, talented and lazy, lost the Cold War match of the century in 1972 in Reykjavík to the American prodigy Bobby Fischer, "the best representative of the Soviet school of chess" and disappointed many, but also gained respect for his sportsmanship and dignity in defeat
On January 25, 2025, the tenth world champion, the grandmaster of the Soviet amalgam of "chess for the masses" and long traditions, completed his life's journey. That chess Oblomov, smart, noble, talented and lazy, lost the Cold War match of the century in 1972 in Reykjavík to the American prodigy Bobby Fischer, "the best representative of the Soviet school of chess", freed himself from the burden of leadership, and disappointed many, but also gained respect for his sportsmanship and dignity in defeat
The telephone conversation between Trump and Putin, which hints at peace negotiations in Ukraine, and the Europeans, uninformed, humiliated and insulted, are asked to finance and secure it
Trade routes have become the main avenue of geopolitical competition in order to control the straits, gain supremacy at sea, and therefore military and trade dominance, and critical points on them are choked by climate shocks, war conflicts and - pirates
In eleven days of November and December 2024, armed opposition units managed to achieve more than in all 14 years of the civil war
Father a victim of the KKK, mother in a psychiatric clinic, he was first the leader of the gang on the streets of Roxbury and Harlem "Detroit Red", then the preacher of the Nation of Islam and racial pride who, not hiding the hatred born of hatred, impressed both friends and enemies, was killed before six decades in the presence of the authorities
Has the 1945 nuclear taboo faded? The countries with the largest nuclear arsenals in the world, the USA and Russia, are effectively clashing in Ukraine; Russia Changes Military Doctrine, and US Council on Foreign Relations Plays Out Scenarios in Case Russians Use Tactical Nuclear Weapons; Iran is edging closer to nuclear weapons, while there is speculation that Israel may attack Iran's nuclear facilities…
How, in the years of its founding, Radio Belgrade was assigned the mission of cultural and political education and bringing art, science and the most significant works of art and popular music to a wide range of listeners, and how it conquered the basic journalistic genre - live broadcast of events
Infernal pagers and new volleys of a long war, "Vreme" no. 1760
About the use of civilian funds for war purposes, about the role of the Mossad and Shin Bet - and a Hungarian advisor for sustainable development - and also a naturalized Norwegian of Indian origin, a businessman in Bulgaria in the operation of manufacturing, trafficking and planting explosives in a large number of Herzbolah pagers, and and how a series of pager explosions one week turned into rocket salvos fired at Hezbollah in Beirut at the beginning of the next, and the classic threat Hezbollah. "When, where and how? You will know when the time comes…”
On film: Michael Corleone, of course, son of Don Corleone, the second Godfather, cold as ice; someone who can pull out a gun hidden in a toilet and put a bullet through the head of a corrupt cop; someone who can tell his wife Kate that he's never lied to her by lying; someone who gives his brother Fred the kiss of death... And otherwise, a perpetual bachelor who would rather find a severed horse's head in his bed in the morning than tell a reporter anything about his unusual love life
In the movie: Michael Corleone, Don Corleone's son of course, the second Godfather, ice-cold, someone who can pull out a gun hidden in a toilet and put a bullet through a corrupt cop's head, someone who can tell his wife Kate that he's never lied to her by lying at the same time, someone who gives his brother Fred the kiss of death - and otherwise, a perpetual bachelor who would rather find a severed horse's head in his bed in the morning than tell a reporter anything confides about his unusual love life
Global star of French cinema; a handsome, male pin-up and a kind of holy monster with a strong character, a Latin lover and a child who does not know what he is playing with; the actor Alain Delon lived intensely with grace and violence, progressive works and reactionary ideology, and met the end of his life like the powerless King Lear in the agony of a feuding family
Olympic medals were once awarded for architecture, literature, music, painting and sculpture, but Coubertin's ancient dream of combining "gymnastics for the body and music for the soul" did not come true.
How Spyridon Lewis, an illiterate water carrier from Attica without many opportunities in life, won the first marathon at the 1896 Athens Olympics; influenced modern Olympism more than anyone except Pierre de Coubertin; refused a free shave for the rest of his life; presented Hitler with a branch of peace from the holy olive tree in Olympia; he returned to his village of Maroussi and died in March 1940, a few weeks before the Italians invaded Greece
As an artist and fighter, actor and victim, he left his mark on Greek cultural and national self-awareness after the Balkan Wars, the Great War, the 1922 disaster in Asia Minor, the Metaxas dictatorship in 1936, the Second World War (1941–44), the Civil War (1946– 1949) and the military regime of the 1970s. He was respected as an icon of the internationalist left-wing poetics of freedom and he admitted that the end of the utopia he fought for as a communist all his life had come to an end. As an artist, in a kind of Odyssey, he collected and united scattered elements of Hellenism from antiquity, through Byzantium to contemporary poets and the mainstay of folk art. More than 1000 works outlived him and his era - from sphere music and opera Antigone, across Songs of a dead brother to Sirtaki the Greek Zorba
As an artist and fighter, actor and victim, he left his mark on Greek cultural and national self-awareness after the Balkan Wars, the Great War, the 1922 disaster in Asia Minor, the Metaxas dictatorship in 1936, the Second World War (1941–44), the Civil War (1946– 1949) and the military regime of the 1970s. He was respected as an icon of the internationalist left-wing poetics of freedom and he admitted that the end of the utopia he fought for as a communist all his life had come to an end. As an artist, in a kind of Odyssey, he collected and united scattered elements of Hellenism from antiquity, through Byzantium to contemporary poets and the mainstay of folk art. More than 1000 works outlived him and his era - from the music of the spheres and the opera Antigone, through the Song of the Dead Brother to the Sirtaki of the Greek Zorba
The former "voice of a generation", "archbishop of chaos", "Brecht from the jukebox", a combination of boys and beatniks, Huckleberry Finn and the left-wing patriarch Woody Guthrie, whose guitar kills fascists, sings at the Outlaw Festival in his 82nd year again this summer. A creator of the myth of himself and a persistent destroyer of his previous image, Bob Dylan ran in vain from his protest songs, "Hard Rain Is Gonna Fall", "Blowin' in the Wind", "The Times They Are a-Changin". They are relevant even in today's time, which is as irrational as that of his youth. But what is it worth when Taylor Swift says: "You're not Dylan Thomas, I'm not Patti Smith." It's not the Chelsea Hotel. We are modern idiots…”
At the Outlaw Festival in its 82nd year, the former "voice of a generation", "archbishop of chaos", "Brecht from the jukebox", a combination of boys and beatniks, Huckleberry Finn and the young patriarch Woody Guthrie whose guitar kills fascists sings again this summer. The creator of a myth about himself and a persistent destroyer of his previous image, Bob Dylan ran in vain from his protest songs, "Hard Rain Is Gonna Fall", "Blowin' in the Wind", "The Times They Are A-Changin'". They are relevant even in today's time, which is as irrational as that of his youth. But what is it worth when Taylor Swift says: "You're not Dylan Thomas, I'm not Patti Smith." It's not the Chelsea Hotel. We are modern idiots…”
Since on April 3 it was 100 years since the birth of Marlon Brando, the predecessor of the rebel without a cause and the symbol of "brutality or callousness of youth", who changed the style of acting in American and not only American cinema, this spring around the world, including our Cinematheque, his films show Savage, A Streetcar Named Desire, On the docks of New York, Long live Zapata, Saxon, Julius Caesar, Mutiny on board the Bounty, One Eyed Jack, Kum, Last Tango in Paris, Apocalypse today... This may not be an exception in the time of cultural stagnation, in which everyone seems to be living in some version of aesthetic 1993, or 1983, or 1973, or 1963.
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Marlon Brando, the predecessor of the rebel without a cause and the symbol of "the brutality or callousness of youth", who changed the style of acting in film, this spring his films are being shown again all over the world, including our Cinematheque Savage, A tram called longing, On the docks of New York, Long live Zapata, Saxon, Mutiny on board the Bounty, One Eyed Jack, Kum, Last Tango in Paris, Apocalypse today... This is perhaps not an exception in times of cultural stagnation and recycling of cultural products, from academic heights to popular bestsellers, from fashion, hairstyles, films, books, songs, pop music, to political theory - as if everyone now lives in some version aesthetic 1993 or 1983 or 1973 or 1963
With the terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall on the outskirts of Moscow, in which many people died, Vilayet Korasan appeared on the bloody stage and brought back the nightmare of Budjonovska in 1995; September 11, 2001, Dubovke 2002, Beslana 2004 or Bataklan 2015. This bloody event is more difficult in terms of psychosocial effects because it is part of a complex mosaic of a very complex war and world crisis atmosphere
From Papa Doc to Jimmy Cherisier Barbeque, the recent history of the first state of rebellious black slaves, the poorest country in the Caribbean, Haiti, has been marked by coups, intimidation, fraud, assassinations, rebellions and merciless violence by numerous gangs that often arose "in the presence of the authorities"
He was the left-behind child of the 1970s rebels; he was running away from a manipulative psychopath; went to 37 schools, hacked large systems like a "magnificent cheater" and had nightmares of the police breaking into his back door at five in the morning; he found the lost father whose rebellious gene he inherited; he created WikiLeaks, through which gigabytes of unpleasant secrets were revealed. He challenged the deep state, lived without a home and became a father in an asylum; he lay in prison for years without a trial, fell ill and in a Kafkaesque ending, caught in a web of paragraphs awaiting extradition and a sentence of 175 years in prison
In a country of never-ending war and incredibly complex, volatile and tragic circumstances, Americans do not miss the opportunity to be drawn into a conflict against an enemy they hardly know.
