Maya Volf

Maya Volf

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The Graveyard of Empires: Why the Taliban Turns Out Stronger Than the USA 2021

For 20 years, the United States has invested almost 90 billion dollars in the development of the Afghan army, but left as losers - just as the USSR left. The civil war continues, "democracy" has not taken root, a peaceful life is a distant prospect. The new inhabitants of the presidential palace promise not to commit genocide and assure that they are not the same as in the 90s. But nobody believes their words. Why has Afghanistan turned into a Taliban republic again and how will the lives of ordinary Afghans now change? Why should we be worried about what is happening in this distant country?
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A Man Captured by Drugs: The Story of an Addicted Soul 2021

Who is a drug addict? Criminal? Dangerous sick person? Or a hero fighting the worst enemy? It is customary to treat drug addicts as the scum of society, unnecessary and superfluous. But it's not just weak people who start using drugs. Very often, especially in childhood, drugs appear in life as a tool of socialization. Using the example of a personal story of one person, the author tells how people in Russia treat drug addicts, what stereotypes they have to face, whether they manage to start a new life and whether there is a share of responsibility of each of us in the problem of drug addiction.
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Russia: Why People Want to Go Back to the USSR 2021

Russia was among those who founded the Soviet Union and among those who dissolved it. But 30 years after the collapse of the empire, many Russians still dream of going back. Nostalgia for the Union in Russia has practically become a state ideology. Many people forget about the shortage, the lack of freedom of speech and trade, but they remember cheap sausages and free apartments. Why won't Russia get out of the clutches of the Soviet Union?