Jews of October and Marina Tsvetaeva
It was only in XNUMX that I learned the word "Jew" Marina Tsvetaeva. "Notebooks" She was not squeamish, as she herself admitted. Tsvetaeva was not afraid of the impurity of her body in every sense, but she always fled from the dirt in her soul. Her diary notes about ...
"The Case of the Sachkhere Jews"
About forty years ago I got a book - a collection of court speeches by famous Russian lawyers, delivered by them in the last third of the 19th century. Boris Akunin had not yet appeared on the horizon, or perhaps even been born at all. Soviet literature somehow avoided this...
Russia-Ukraine: cyber war-2014
The crisis in Ukraine has become the largest battleground in cyberspace since Russia's cyber attacks on Estonia in 2007 and Georgia in 2008. Russia has managed to collapse almost all government sites in Ukraine, and it has also managed to take control of all Internet and telephone lines ...
The occupation of the Crimea and the anti-legal state of Putin
The annexation of Crimea by Russia dealt a crushing blow not only to the international legal order, but also to constitutionalism and the idea of the rule of law in Russia itself, consolidating there, in fact, an anti-law state in which the central place belongs not to the law, but to the will of the country's leader. ...
Avigdor Lieberman's alternative: sanity and composure - against fear and hysteria
In order not to be late for the ceremonial meeting of the activists of the “Israel Our Home” party, dedicated to Passover, I had to take a taxi. Drivers in our country are not just sociable - many zealously follow politics and understand the current processes no worse than seasoned commentators.…
The defeat of Russian diplomacy in the Crimean War-2014
On March 27, 2014, a significant event took place, which can be called a diplomatic victory of civilized states supporting international law and order over the Russian aggressor: delegates to the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution confirming the territorial integrity of Ukraine, and thus condemning the annexation of Crimea by Russia. Among other things in ...
Practical Zionism Lessons: The Second Youth of Kibbutz Manara
Young Israelis associate Manara with a funicular soaring into the sky and a mesmerizing landscape that opens from the cabins. The nature here is more reminiscent of European than Mediterranean. At the same time, few people know that forests on a steep hillside were planted in the 50s ...
Why is Russia aggressive?
Russia's aggression against Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea have raised the question of the reasons for the extraordinary aggressiveness of Russia's foreign policy, which makes Russia itself a very dangerous phenomenon in world politics that threatens the entire civilized world. The question regarding the reasons for Russia's aggressive behavior can be formulated ...
Who has the right to self-determination in the Crimea?
In connection with the annexation of Crimea by Russia, Russian politicians and diplomats tried to present, rather awkwardly, the right of peoples to self-determination as the main argument justifying this annexation. Let's try to understand this rather complicated international law even for modern science, a question that has ...
“Annexation” of Crimea: is it good for (Israeli) Jews?
I really wanted to consider the drama that broke out in Crimea from the position of an unbiased outside observer. But our desires do not always coincide with our possibilities: having paid 80 rubles in the late 900s for renouncing Soviet citizenship, I plunged headlong into Hebrew and ...