[Vladimir] Putin is more of a poker player. In poker, unlike chess, you can effectively compensate for a very weak hand by bluffing. There are fixed rules in chess, and no one knows how the game will end. Things are currently the other way around in Putin's realm. But it won't stay that way forever.

If you're already in a fight, you want the first blow to be the last and you had better be the one to throw it.

Values-oriented foreign policy of the free world would be much better, supported by the self-awareness of being on the right side of history.

At the northern border of Azerbaijan, Daghestan by no means contributes to the democratization of the Caucasus.

The Greeks according to official history used letters for hundreds, for tens, and ones.It was extremely complicated. If you talk about Archimedes, you should use Greek letters.

I don't really like discussions about a supposed Russian national character.

Somehow, AI is playing an important role of breaking up the ice of complacency. We have a comfortable life, we just don't want to take risks. AI is threatening too many comfortable jobs to make people think about taking risks again.