“Alexander the Great, the making of a myth”: the exhibition to discover at the British Library

“Alexander the Great, the making of a myth” at the British Library or how cultures and religions around the world have built a fabulous fiction around a hero, used for their own ends. Alexander the Great, the making of a myth, the entire exhibition finds its justification in its title alone. Born in Macedonia, in … Read more

Alexander Pescador inaugurates the exhibition ‘Light and Hope’

The spirituality, freedom and energy that mystical beings display on their own, can be appreciated in the exhibition light and hopeby the plastic artist Alexander Pescador Kobets, which was inaugurated at the Multiversidad Cultural Center. The 20-year-old, who has dabbled in the Fine Arts since childhood, since he is a musician as well as a … Read more

In Russia with the fans of Alexander Nevsky, this prince who “botched the West” and inspired Putin

The brutal melee ends. Amid the corpses of Teutonic knights, Alexander Nevsky brandishes his sword and roars as he gazes at the dead: “This land was Russian, it still is, and it will remain so!” On this day, the warriors are actors in chain mail, history buffs gathered for a reenactment in the Russian village … Read more

In Russia with the fans of Alexander Nevsky, this prince who “botched the West” and inspired Putin

The brutal melee ends. Amid the corpses of Teutonic knights, Alexander Nevsky brandishes his sword and roars as he gazes at the dead: “This land was Russian, it still is, and it will remain so!” On this day, the warriors are actors in chain mail, history buffs gathered for a reenactment in the Russian village … Read more

Alexander Dugin, Putin’s ‘sectarian’ ideologue: After his daughter’s death “could radicalize his ideas about Ukraine”

Putin’s ideologue, Alexander Dugin, has dominated the front pages of the international media after the attack that killed his daughter Darya Dugina last Saturday. The researcher of the Ibero-American Network for the Study of Sects (RIES), Luis Santamaría, analyzes the profile of the Muscovite philosopher born in 1962, who “feels admiration for occult mysticism and … Read more