Getting away from the depressing events of the world, I have been reading about depressing events in the past, in particular the Diaries of...

It is time to recall a couple of other people who died on this day, in one case sixty years ago. Both of them were great artists and both ...

May Day is an odd sort of holiday (where it is treated as such). The day after Walpurgis Night, when the witches fly in many countries, it h...

Back from an event organized by the Foreign Policy Centre: Freedom and Russian Society . Had it been entitled Freedom and Russia it would h...