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“Alone I Go Out On The Road,” by Mikhail Lermontov
Although I have read some Lermontov, for example, Hero of our Time and Caucasus Captive, I was not aware of this poem of his, the first line of which was applied to an article that I was reading. Since Lermontov’s writings are among the best of the 19th-century Russian Romanticism literary movement, I have decided…
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Being Infatuated with Anti-Western Ideas Has Become a Dangerous Path for Russia
The following is an opinion piece published on the Moscow Komsomolets news site written by Aleksandr Tsipko, who, as a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1972, has enjoyed a long career as a social philosopher and political scientist. He was a proponent of Gorbachev’s perestroika strategy and is the director of the…
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Church In Southeastern Türkiye Targeted Again, Early September 2022
The Turkish news website, Sat 7 Türk Haber, on September 8, 2022, posted an item in which an up close and personal account was given of the planned murder of three men, who represent the Association of Salvation (Kurtuluş) Churches [1] in the southeastern province of Malatya in Türkiye. The murder there in 2007 of…
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A 1500-Year-old Inscription Points to the House of the Apostle Peter
The TV and internet news organization, Sat 7 Türk Haber, which promotes its mission as “news for Christians from Christians,” issued the above-entitled Turkish language article on September 5, 2022, from an unidentified original report. [As translation by Lahbrais O’Coileain] A team composed of Israeli and American archaeologists uncovered a 1500-year-old inscription on a centuries-old…
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Retrospective on Archaeological Finds in Israel, Greece within the Last Decade Confirm Biblical Record, Late March 2018
While doing an internet search for reports pertaining to Biblical archaeological work, an item appeared that had been picked up by the Turkish internet news site, Sat 7 Türk Haber, on March 23, 2018, from The Christian Post, which it apparently carried on the same date. On its Twitter page, Sat 7 Türk Haber promotes…
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Book Review: Melanchthon, The Quiet Reformer by Clyde Leonard Manschreck
Most of us who have an interest in the period of the Protestant Reformation have heard of Philip Melanchthon, but how many are aware that the surname Melanchthon is an ancient Greek translation, and a sort of cryptonym, for the German Schwarzterdt meaning ‘black earth,’ which was the surname with which he was born. [Note:…
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Russian and Arab Money Won’t Save Erdoğan, Turkish Economist Says, mid-August 2022
The Turkish internet news site, DEMOCRAT HABER, on August 14, 2022, posted the remarks in a transcript format of a YouTube program during which one of the discussants maintained that the influx of money from Russia and/or Saudi Arabia could not overcome the effects of the current inflationary cycle in the Turkish economy. The remarks,…
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Sochi Economic Agreement Provides Life Support for Both Putin, Erdoğan, mid-August 2022 Greek report
My Comment: It turns out that strongmen, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, are in need of each other’s help in order maintain a facade of bravado in the face of the dire financial shortcomings in their economies. In the case of Russia, more than 30 years after the fall…
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Russia Agrees to Take Rubles for Natural Gas Deliveries to Türkiye, Early August 2022
The Greek language internet site News Break, on August 11, 2022 carried the following news item that describes an agreement reached between Moscow and Ankara to allow Türkiye to pay rubles for a certain portion of Russian natural gas imports. The article also mentions the two countries’ plan to significantly increase bilateral trade turnover. The…
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Book Review: Martin Luther – The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World by Eric Metaxas
While reading three biographies of William Tyndale, each of the authors made a point of mentioning that in the course of translating the same into English, Tyndale had made extensive use of Martin Luther’s German translation of the Bible from the original Hebrew and Greek. Since the Tyndale biographies’ focus centered on his love for…
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