The antithesis of freedom is not a prison, not a totalitarian state, or even slavery. This is a cult, when not only the body, but also the consciousness of a person is captured. According to psychologist Michael Langon, editor-in-chief of the magazine and several books on cult practices, ...

Former US National Security Agency (NSA) employee Ronald Pelton, who was sentenced in 1986 to three life sentences for espionage for the USSR, was released. Pelton, 74, who was arrested in 1985, was granted parole after 30 years in prison. ...

“In recent years, the political system of Russia has been increasingly moving away from the relatively soft authoritarianism of the 2000s and acquiring the features of undisguised totalitarianism,” writes the daughter of oppositionist Boris Nemtsov, killed in Moscow, Zhanna, in an article for the German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung. Since the annexation of Crimea...