War has a financial map as well as a map of the front lines. And wherever trench lines run, balance-sheet lines run too. Behind...
The 1993 Constitution of the Russian Federation and its 2020 “amendments” are not a Fundamental Law, but the charter of a private trading company...
The Birth Certificate: Where the Conveyor Belt Begins
Decrees No. SUR 032 and No. Д/Н 043 of the USSR State Committee for the State of...
On 22 January 1919, an event took place in St Sophia Square in Kyiv that Ukrainian textbooks now call the ‘Act of Unification’ —...
On 22 September 2023, an event took place in the Canadian parliament that made the world shudder. The House of Commons gave a standing...
Treaties signed by states are usually regarded as unshakeable. But what if a document bearing signatures and seals had no force from the outset?...
STRASBOURG QUESTIONED THE STATE DUMA’S RIGHT TO REPRESENT THE PEOPLE The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe challenged the legitimacy of the newly constituted State Duma and called for restrictions on engagement with it. Resolution No. 2677 (2026), adopted on 30 September, also calls for sanctions against the Russian Federation’s Central Election Commission and other listed participants in electoral processes. The document gives renewed relevance to statements by the USSR State Committee for the State of Emergency (GKChP) published as early as 2024. At the heart of the resolution are the foundations of representative pow…
The Academy examines Decree No. 521 of 27 July 2026 on restrictions on land ownership by foreign citizens, stateless persons and foreign legal entities in listed border territories. It treats USSR citizens as foreigners for the Russian system and challenges the basis of the list through its assessment of RF borders and comparison with SAAT.
I. The source: ‘yes’ and ‘no’
‘But let your word be: yes, yes; no, no; whatever goes beyond this comes from the evil one’ (Matthew...
The lecture of 27 August 2026 sets out the Academy’s position on RF default and anticipated insolvency from 2 September, Treasury M1’s claims concerning citizens’ property, and the transfer of Warsaw Pact Political Consultative Committee rights to the GKChP. US quota conditions and political scenarios retain their conditional character.








































