The foray of the Turkish garrison of Silistria against the Russian army besieging the fortress. June 1854 Wikipedia, license: Creative Commons On March 30, 1856, the Treaty of Paris officially included the Ottoman Empire in the Concert of Europe and committed it to liberal reforms. The era of Tanzimat, or ordering, promised to transform the "sick man of Europe" into a modern state.

I. Despite COVID-19 and, as it were, through it, we continued to cooperate with Iskander Raulevich Indyukov. It gave me direction and meaning that I had (almost) lost before. And it’s okay that he called me “you” and I called him “you”, even though he was fifteen years older. That's how it's supposed to be. In the early twenties, I was forced to admit that life had reached a complete dead end, and the past was a triple failure, like overheated cologne.

Parliamentary elections will be held in Hungary on April 12. The results of the vote in a small Eastern European country are being closely watched by literally the whole world: European tabloids are racing to publish incriminating evidence on the current Hungarian leader Viktor Orban, Donald Trump is sending J.D. Vance to Hungary to support him, and Vladimir Zelensky is threatening to hand over Orban’s address to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.