The so-called new Russian man is characterized mainly by his complete exhaustion. You may find yourself wondering if he has the strength to enjoy his….

In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is dif….

Literature seemed to be everything then. People looked to it for the strength to live, for guidance, for revelation..

The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to ….

The continent is too large to describe. It is a veritable ocean, a separate planet, a varied, immensely rich cosmos. Only with the greatest simplific….

There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So the….

When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself..

In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by ….

Our job is like a baker's work - his rolls are tasty as long as they're fresh; after two days they're stale; after a week, they're covered with mould….

There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of au….

In the tropics the white feels weakened, or downright weak, whence comes the heightened tendency to outbursts of aggression. People who are polite, m….

There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was alwa….

Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so ope….

I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months..

Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before hi….

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart..

A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles - whose needs are never satisfied and desires never fulfilled - is vulnerab….

Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general - a desire to prese….

The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed..

More than anything, one is struck by the light. Light everywhere. Brightness everywhere. Everywhere, the sun..

In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet governm….