A stunning and informative graphic from the National Post. Why are we doing this? How can we possibly afford it? Over to you, Bill Kauffman. This is a good place to commend to you my TAC colleague ...

For a thousand years, Russia has had a vision of Constantinople as the centre ... and assumed the double-headed eagle of the Byzantine Empire as the symbol of the Russian. This bold assumption ...

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He was a Byzantine emperor who reigned from 491 to 518 CE ... Anastasius introduced several important reforms, including a new tax system, which helped stabilise the empire’s economy. His fiscal ...