The concept of good faith in Russian and foreign law has both common features and significant differences, shaped by historical traditions and the specific characteristics of legal systems.

Rising chip prices driven by the artificial intelligence (AI) boom have prompted Apple to approach the Trump administration for permission to purchase microchips from the Chinese company CXMT—a move opposed by geopolitical “hawks” led by M. Rubio. Incidentally, in the foreword to a 2024 book on U.S. industrial policy, he wrote, no less, that the United States must “overcome decades of industrial decline and subservience to communist China.” So, it turns out, the U.S. has been experiencing industrial decline and subordinating itself to China for several decades.

On March 31, 2026, OpenFX announced that it had raised $94 million in a Series A round to develop cross-border FX infrastructure based on stablecoins (Source: OpenFX, March 31, 2026). The company positions itself as an infrastructure provider for international payments and currency conversion, connecting traditional banking systems with digital settlement channels.

The paradox of modern business in 2026 looks like this: the higher a leader’s position and salary, the less joy they experience.

Imagine hiring a brilliant architect to design a skyscraper. But when he arrives at the construction site, you hand him a shovel and make him dig a trench because “there aren’t enough workers.”

The modern business world is obsessed with efficiency. This obsession has seeped so deeply into leaders’ behavioral patterns that even their well-deserved time off becomes something they try to “optimize.”

The International Ballet Competition in Moscow is known unofficially as the “Olympic Games of the Ballet World” — such is the name given to the world’s oldest ballet competition.

At the Benois Wing of the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, a large-scale retrospective of Pyotr Konchalovsky, “Garden in Bloom,” dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the artist’s birth, runs until September 14, 2026.

From May 21 to 24, 2026, Sevkabel Port (St. Petersburg) will host the fourth Port Art Fair — one of the most prominent independent contemporary art fairs in Russia.

Recently in Accra, at the partner Russian House of the Center for Public Diplomacy, an intensive course was launched to help Ghanaian students of the targeted enrollment program adapt to life in Russia before they soon leave to study at Novosibirsk State Technical University (NSTU).

An 8% decline in the number of students in India's primary schools over the past two years could lead to serious consequences.

As of January 1, 2025, Russia has 1,115 higher education institutions, with Lomonosov Moscow State University taking first place in the ranking of the best universities in Russia in 2024. But which other institutions train highly qualified specialists?