Following the tsunami which devastated the island of Samoa in the South Pacific earlier this week, we explore the phenomenon that can leave lives and entire countries destroyed.

Sometimes we can hear that Japanese are so clever because their children study very much at school. In reality they study no more than any European child. The matter is that besides school they attend “juka” – the additional classes for entering the University or Higher School, but these courses are also widespread everywhere now.

We can read and hear very often that the huge territory of Russia with comparatively small population says about its imperial ambitions.