Time 21.February 2025

Uncle Sam in Banana Republic of Guatemala

Over 70 years ago, in June 1954, the United States overthrew the first democratically elected president in Guatemala’s history, Jacobo Arbenz, and Washington’s protégé, Colonel Castillo Armas, seized power in Central America’s most populated country. Armas established a military dictatorship, which sparked a civil war that lasted for 36 years and caused genocide of the […]
7min 4416
20.02.2025 Tatiana Kasatkina

About the Publican and the Pharisee

“…two men went up into the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus within himself, ‘God, I thank you that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice a week, I give tithes of […]
8min 692
19.02.2025 Andrey Vedyaev

Confession of an Intelligence Officer

Soviet intelligence officer, Hero of Russia Colonel Alexander Semenovich Feklisov can be counted among the most important witnesses of our atomic age without any exaggeration. He was a participant in Operation Enormous, an operation of the NKVD foreign intelligence service to obtain American atomic secrets. It was to him that the outstanding physicist Klaus Fuchs […]
16min 3365
19.02.2025 Vladimir Golstein

Do Politicians Forget Personal Insults and Betrayals?

Of course, I am not a historian of Trump impeachment proceedings, but from what I remember, they were mostly about the so-called “Ukraine-gate.” That is, Trump knew that Zelensky had plenty of dirt on Biden and his coke-head son. So he told Zelensky to give him some goods before he released another billion dollar packet […]
2min 6155
17.02.2025 Robert Reich

Americans, rise up!

Friends, I want to talk today about the media’s coverage of the Trump-Vance-Musk coup. I’m not referring to coverage by the bonkers right-wing media of Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News and its imitators. I’m referring to the U.S. mainstream media — The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, The New […]
4min 109

Review & Opinion


19.02.2025 Vladimir Golstein

Do Politicians Forget Personal Insults and Betrayals?

Of course, I am not a historian of Trump impeachment proceedings, but from what I remember, they were mostly about the so-called “Ukraine-gate.” That is, Trump knew that Zelensky had plenty of dirt on Biden and his coke-head son. So he told Zelensky to give him some goods before he released another billion dollar packet […]
2min 6155

16.02.2025 Vladimir Golstein

Vice Presient Vance is Trolling Europeans

50th Vice President of the United States James David Vance is Trolling Europeans into Trance. On the surface of it, they just don’t know how to react to the speech that asks them to look at themselves, rather than repeating the usual mantra: Russia—Russia—Ukraine—Money, Money—Russia—Russia. But there is something deeper, obviously. Russophobia had always been […]
2min 10723

14.02.2025 Vladimir Golstein

Miasma of Madness

“Never in the history of the world was one people as completely dominated intellectually and morally, by another as the people of the United States were by the people of Russia in the four years from 1946-to 1949,” observed Archibald MacLeish, a well known poet and the top official at State Department. Well, recently we’ve […]
3min 7308

24.01.2025 Sergey Stankevich

Will an important guest from the USA arrive in Moscow in May?

Moscow attaches great importance to the upcoming celebration of the 80th anniversary of the Victory over Nazi Germany in 2025. Active state preparations are underway. A list of international guests is being compiled. This is where the key intrigue lies: will a guest from the USA arrive in Moscow in May? And who exactly? The […]
3min 2947

17.12.2024 Sergey Stankevich

Maybe it’s a Good Thing

Maybe it’s a good thing that the Maidan epic in Georgia — senseless and merciless — has dragged on for so long. Let the organizers use everything. Absolutely everything. They will show themselves from all sides. They burned Christian symbols. They ruined the children’s holiday of lighting the main New Year’s tree in Tbilisi. Now […]
2min 1522

10.12.2024 Sergey Berezhnoy

Exodus from Syria

In the morning, a call from a Syrian friend: that’s it, Damascus has fallen. What Marat warned about has happened. They didn’t listen. Now wait for them to come to you. Not as guests — as hosts. The worst thing is the inability to help. The inability to do anything. I turned on the Internet. […]
2min 2648

Galleries


Culture & Art


16.02.2025 Egor Sennikov

The Last Mask of the Great Actor

I often think about what it is like to create something with full effort, being on the threshold of death. We are all doomed to it, of course, but we drown out thoughts about it with the vanity of life, work and idleness, feelings and entertainment. But when it has already knocked on the door, […]
4min 13648

21.01.2025 Yuri Chekalin

How Did the Statue of Liberty Appear in New York?

The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to go to Egypt. It was created as a gift to commemorate the construction of the Suez Canal by the French. However, the Egyptians refused the gift, and France decided to give the statue to America. In August 1875, the creation of the Franco-American Union was announced. The […]
1min 1226

28.10.2024 Lada Zhinova

Chekhov and Emptiness: Why Do the Japanese Love to Read and Stage Chekhov?

December 1945. Japan. The war has just ended. In the center of Tokyo, in the half-destroyed building of the Yurakuza Theater, the first post-war premiere is Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard. The play was last shown in 1937. Then it was directed by Aoyama Sugisaku, who 8 years later would return to Chekhov again, gathering all […]
11min 1017

My Tribute To Mark Twain

At the end of January 1985, the 35th boxing match between the USSR and USA teams took place in Reno, Nevada. In connection with this, I visited this city, where I spent several days in the company of our boxing team. Before the match, the organizers of the competition arranged for us a bus tour […]
9min 15674

02.09.2024 Yuri Chekalin

The real Crocodile Dundee

The prototype of “Crocodile Dundee” was a Latvian. But there is a nuance… You’ve probably watched the multi-episode comedy blockbuster “Crocodile Dundee” with the charming Australian comedian Paul Hogan in the lead role. A fearless crocodile hunter from the Australian outback charms an American reporter, defeats bad guys and travels through the megalopolises of America, […]
3min 6027

09.08.2023 Olga Makarova

Naughty Children: Nuisance or Blessing

Once in a while, every parent, to one degree or another, faces the disobedience of their child. In France in the 60s, even a kid named Nicolas was popular — a character in children’s illustrated books, on which more than one generation of French grew up. He is curious and restless, mischievous but a dreamer, […]
2min 8812

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Uncle Sam in Banana Republic of Guatemala

Over 70 years ago, in June 1954, the United States overthrew the first democratically elected president in Guatemala’s history, Jacobo Arbenz, and Washington’s protégé, Colonel Castillo Armas, seized power in Central America’s most populated country. Armas established a military dictatorship, which sparked a civil war that lasted for 36 years and caused genocide of the […]

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