Nord Stream 2 is a project that is not receiving the critical attention it should. The gas pipeline, which is planned to accompany the original Nord Stream, is planned to run from Russia to Germany and supply 55 billion cubic meters of natural gas to Europe. Nord Stream 2 AG, the company behind the project, is fully owned by Gazprom, the majority of which is owned by the Russian

Enlightened public in Russia and abroad have been heatedly discussing how skillfully the young, European Macron questioned Putin in Versailles, and await the forthcoming fall of the Putin regime under the burden of western sanctions. Many less enlightened Russians are sure that their country has come to a new, deadly confrontation with the West and are doomed to gaze at state bulldozers squashing “subversive” cheeses and tomatoes. Both are in error, as I recently came to understand. Almost unnoticed

A tale of how scientists saw themselves in the crooked lens of the Leningrad regional administration, what they did, and then what happened

On March 24, 2017, on the fourth floor of the Kingisepski region administration building, a remarkable group gathered. On one side – representatives of the regional governments, and on the other – Saint Petersburg scientists. Also present, though truthfully not for long, were two residents of the Kurgolskii peninsula,