HistoryThe Templars of Langley, Virginia: Declassified documents outline the CIA’s quest to find the Ark of the CovenantYuriy Matsarsky24 April 2025
HistoryThe Lost Army: War veterans could pose a problem for Putin’s Russia, just like they did for interwar GermanyAPAnton Pavlovich21 April 2025
HistoryDiagnosis as denunciation: Kremlin meddling in doctor-patient confidentiality has a long historyRRustam Alexander18 February 2025
HistoryDeath Camps Inc. How the Syrian dictatorship outsourced the construction of torture prisons to fugitive NazisYuriy Matsarsky23 December 2024
HistoryPolite comrades: How Moscow pioneered the use of “little green men” in Estonia a century agoIgor Kopytin6 December 2024
HistorySaladin and the wonderful lamp: Why Iran really believes Israel is using Djinns to fight Hezbollah Yuriy Matsarsky22 October 2024
History“I despise your court and I despise your power”: The complete collection of Alexei Navalny's “last words”Oleg Pshenichny13 September 2024
HistoryHow Iranian Azerbaijan narrowly avoided becoming the USSR's “new territory”: Excerpt from “Iran's Kremlin Agents” by Mikhail KrutikhinMikhail Krutikhin14 August 2024
HistoryBland Samaritans: The modern-day descendants of the people that sparked the Arab-Israeli conflictYuriy Matsarsky24 July 2024
HistoryA Tatar gift: On the 80th anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean TatarsYuriy Matsarsky21 May 2024
HistoryGallows for a Propagandist: How the Third Reich's chief proponent failed to defend himself in NurembergThe Insider 12 May 2024
HistorySelf-prosecution as a national sport. How Stalinism forged ‘self-criticism,’ self-denunciation, and other forms of public apologyThe Insider 18 March 2024
History“No brother of mine”: Who started the war between ISIS and Iran?Yuriy Matsarsky31 January 2024
HistoryDevil vs. Advocate: The amazing, if rare, triumphs of legal defense in Stalin's Soviet UnionISIvan Shemanov13 December 2023
HistoryFaith with trust issues. Why Iran is struggling to consolidate the Islamic world against IsraelYuriy Matsarsky4 December 2023
HistoryOrthodoxy, autocracy, anti-Semitism. How the Russian Empire endorsed and justified pogromsThe Insider 24 November 2023
HistoryRevolutionaries without borders: How exiled opposition brought change to their countriesAAlexander Finiarel20 November 2023
HistoryBorn in the flames of resolutions: The history and underlying causes of the Arab-Israeli conflictYuriy Matsarsky3 November 2023
HistoryFrom desertion to revolution: Lessons Russia failed to learn from the 1914 mobilizationMMMarat Maytak-Annaorazov5 October 2023
HistoryOld-timers on trial: Postwar Ukraine may learn lesson from Germany's prosecution of Nazi criminals DFDiana Fishman27 September 2023
HistoryA Movable Coup: A history of armed marches toward the capital, from Caesar to WagnerGGGeorgy Garin24 August 2023
HistoryFrom nationwide leader to The Hague: Viewing Milošević's history through the eyes of opposition NNikita Aronov10 August 2023
History“Take away and destroy.” How nationalization was carried out a hundred years before Putin and how it ended back thenThe Insider 9 August 2023
HistoryChanging tides of the supernatural: Interest in all things esoteric is rising in Russia mirroring pre-revolutionary era of Nicholas IILyubov Vinogradova19 July 2023
HistoryJetting through the Iron Curtain: Three stories of Soviet pilots' daring defections from the USSRMMMarat Maytak-Annaorazov9 March 2023
History“Thank God, the Führer is alive.” How Nazi propaganda successfully brainwashed the German nationGGGeorgy Garin2 March 2023
History“People lived as if in hiding.” Putin is following in the footsteps of Nicholas I, but where does this path lead?Ilya Klishin 23 January 2023
HistoryNon-prophet women’s organization. How protests in Iran continue a century-long struggle against patriarchal dictatorshipAVAnna Volkova11 January 2023
History“Hostile Foreigners.” How anti-fascist immigrants from Hitler's Germany were (not) welcomedGGGeorgy Garin8 November 2022
History“No Compromise with a Race of Savages”: How WWI triggered a global bout of GermanophobiaGGGeorgy Garin28 September 2022
History The birth of a nation. How Putin wanted to destroy Ukrainian people, but ended up strengthening Ukrainian identityThe Insider 15 July 2022