Rauf Azimov

The Emperor’s New Tariffs: Small, Ugly and Stupid Trump is throwing a tantrum, but the damage will be real

What does Trump have against Canada? paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-empero...

Darkness on the Edge of Ukraine - The Ideas Letter In late September, while President Volodymyr Zelensky was presenting his “victory plan” for Ukraine in Washington, 53-year-old Serhiy Kanalosh was dying in a hospital after four days spent at a…

A spectacular account by @leonidragozin.bsky.social. Decades from now, when the history of how the post-Cold War era ended in the nadir of the Russia-Ukraine war will be written, it will follow the bold outlines Leonid sketches here, I have no doubt. Powerful.
www.theideasletter.org/essay/darkne...

An Azerbaijani author of fierce political courage and local loyalty People and Trees is a pastoral set in Soviet Azerbaijan in the 1940s. If that sounds dull, then do not be deceived: Akram Aylisli’s novel is anything but.

On Akram Aylisli's wonderful early novel from the 1960s, People and Trees, now in English for the first time in Katherine Young's beautiful translation. A village, where the men are lost to the war, the women are in charge, modernity has arrived and a boy grows up www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/f...

Whyyyy did I say climax and not think twice?

As it should be. Christmas is on a random day with no climax - no countdown to anything and no Stolichny salad.