Seems like orange will be the new black for famous fashion duo Dolce & Gabbana as the Italian appeals court upheld a ruling by a lower court from last June that Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana are guilty of tax evasion. Domenico Dolce was born in 1958 near Palermo, Sicily and Stefano Gabbana four years later in Milan. Dolce studied fashion design and worked at his family’s small clothing factory, while Gabbana was a graphic designer. They met each other at an atelier in Milan, where...

Since 1991, the five independent republics of Central Asia (Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan) have known political, socio-economical and strategic developments that are increasingly divergent. In a time where the soviet heritage is fading away, the notion of a central Asian ‘common destiny’ is more relevant than ever. Despite those previously mentioned common points, the Central Asian countries have not ceased to pull away from each other despite their overlapping....

Since 1991, the five independent republics of Central Asia (Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan) have known political, socio-economical and strategic developments that are increasingly divergent. In a time where the soviet heritage is fading away, the notion of a central Asian ‘common destiny’ is more relevant than ever. By the end of 1993, only two years after the arrival of the five Central Asian states on the political world map, The Economist was predicting that the...

If you thought Xavier Dolan’s latest film would bring you back to a more youthful time, then the title did a good job. "Tom at the Farm" is a schizophrenic and anxiety-inducing thriller that calls on a Hitchcockesque influence. The plot is simple. Tom, a young publicist from Montreal heads to his very close colleague Guillaume’s funeral. With a bleached-out, dandy, and voluntarily disheveled look, he arrives at a sinister-looking isolated farm. There, he meets Agathe, the strange mother of the...

It’s the butterfly effect, what happens in the West has repercussions in the East. Though Russia recently annexed Crimea from the Ukraine, we tend to forget that other countries still claim parts of Russian territory. The Ukrainian conflict reactivated tensions between Japan and Russia around the Kuril Islands this week. Representing Russia, the Eastern Military District Commander, General Sergei Surovikin, announced on April 18 the implementation of a plan to rearm the Kuril Islands by...

A year of academic exchange in Uruguay, three months of holidays between two semesters : this is enough to tour the continent. Third stop : Atacama, a gigantic desert with varied landscapes, and enough to delight anyone's eye. Let us focus on this desert of a thousand facets. A twenty-four hour bus ride to the North later and there we had it : we had crossed Chile half way. Dry landscapes, orangey deserts, the heat, and a city on the seaside were all we saw before reaching the border between...

We simplify the idea of games as simple distractions, when for ten years now, they’ve been taken very seriously, thanks to the work of NGOs The UN, Red Cross, academics, and more all use video games and put their own spin on them, with the idea of having fun while increasing awareness. It’s tempting to simplify the idea of the video game to a mere distraction reserved for young men in search of an adrenaline rush, bent on massacring zombies and saving damsels in distress. It’s supposedly just a...

On April 10th, about fifteen UNIRIO drama students found themselves in the Santa Marta favela for a most atypical class, given by performance artist and professor, Tania Alice. As with every Thursday, the students meet at 3:00 p.m. for their performance course. However this time, the meeting point is at the bottom of Santa Marta, a pacified Rio favela situated in the city’s Zona Sul area. Throughout the semester, the course’s objective has been to discover the different aspects of performance...

On Wednesday 19th March, President Santos’s decision was announced : Bogota’s mayor, Gustavo Petro, has officially been dismissed and made ineligible for 15 years, despite the intervention from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to suspend his deposition. Last December, the Journal International had already published an article announcing the mayor’s dismissal by public prosecutor, Alejandro Ordóñez. Since then, Bogota’s mayor has lodged an appeal for his dismissal to be...

Always criticized, sometimes denounced and often blamed, peace is a difficult business for the United Nations. In the 69th year of the United Nations charter, let us look at the creation of a global dream