Monthly Archives: July 2026

Wikipedia: The dombra, also known as the dombyra (Kazakh: домбыра, dombyra; Persian: دمبوره, dambūra), is a long-necked, plucked lute used in the traditional music of the Kazakhs, Hazaras, Uzbeks, Tajiks, Nogais, Bashkirs and Tatars, and the principal national instrument of Kazakhstan.[1][2] Together with the bowed fiddle qyl-qobyz, it is one of the two most widely recognised symbols of Kazakh … Continue reading →

Text of the ruling: here.

Guardian: ‘Ridiculous’ for US to maintain current Nato support, Trump warns ahead of alliance summit President says Washington’s relationship with Nato is ‘not reciprocal’ and ‘they were not there for us’ in Iran war … The US president has repeatedly … Continue reading →

Wikipedia: Iran Air Flight 655 was a scheduled passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai via Bandar Abbas, that was shot down on 3 July 1988 by an SM-2MR surface-to-air missile fired from USS Vincennes, a guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy. The aircraft, an Airbus A300, … Continue reading →

Here, once again, as always in critical moments of history, the root contradictions of the two social and political systems on earth were laid bare. —Chingiz Aitmatov, The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988), … Continue reading →

Guardian: A heatwave is not the same when you’re in a shared room with three other people and no air conditioning, as when you’re in a villa with access to a pool and air conditioning.

Here in Berlin BSW is looking pretty pathetic for September’s election.

It’s not “censorship”, it’s “age verification”. We’re doing it for The Children.