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In the invaluable De administrando Imperio (`On the Governance of the Empire’) by Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, a Byzantine emperor from 913 to 959, the following was written: The city of Rausij is not called `Rausi‘ in the language of the Romans, but because it stands on cliffs, and the cliff is called `lau‘ in Roman […]

When the fall of the Berlin Wall began on November 9, 1989, the demolition of the ideology that had ruled eastern Europe since the end of World War II was hinted at. At the very heart of the communist government in the USSR, already by the mid-1980s, talk of change was instigated by Perestroika and […]