The siloviki (‘strong men’) They are Russian politicians who come from the security and intelligence services. The word comes from the term “institutions of force”, used at the beginning of the era of former President Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s…
Today it could be said that China has two capitals, Beijing and Taipei, without this statement being entirely false. Since 1949, the year generally accepted as the end of the Chinese civil war, a People’s Republic and a plain Republic…
At the end of the 1930s, Europe already seemed doomed to a new war. The Nazis had come to power in Germany in 1933, capitalizing on the revanchist desires of its population after the defeat in the First World War.…
The responsibility to protect (R2P) is the doctrine that states must ensure humanitarian protection even at the cost of intervening in the internal affairs of another country. The R2P establishes that the United Nations Security Council can adopt necessary measures,…
The United States has improved its position in the world without firing a single shot thanks to Vladimir Putin. Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, analyzes proclaimed the decline of Washington’s hegemony in the wake of former President Donald Trump’s…
The most famous legend of the Sephardic people, the one referring to the keys to Spain, tells that, when the Jews were forced to leave the country as a result of the decision of the Catholic Monarchs to expel them…
The recent disappearance of Santiago Maldonado, a 28-year-old artisan, has shocked Argentine society. The case revives the terror of the Videla dictatorship, which left thousands of Argentines missing and a lot of mothers gathered in a central square in Buenos…
After years retired from public life, Nelson Mandela died at the age of 95 on December 5, 2013 at his home in Johannesburg. South Africans responded by saying goodbye in the streets to the man who had made South Africa…
Listen to this article Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist and the so-called “father of the atomic bomb.” He was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and is one of the most influential figures in the history…
Do you remember how many Overseas Territories the United Kingdom had? There were 14, in addition to the two crown offices. As you can see, there are not few of them, and many will unfortunately be left behind in this…