I will tell you right away, professor Oster: there will be no amnesty. Not a chance. And here is why.

The reason for Russia’s trade surplus with Europe is two-fold: the EU’s need for Russian products and the high price of gas and oil. 

To apply to myth the reigning science of the day, in an attempt to transform it into a factual chronicle of human affairs, means inevitably to mangle what is most intrinsic to myth: its kaleidoscopic abundance, its playfulness, its immeasurable depth.