2024 Archives

Yuri Chekalin09.05.2024

Russian-tanks-at-the-Moscow-Victory-Day-Parade-2024.jpg

“What even the most seasoned German saboteurs from the Brandenburg-800 regiment failed to do, the Soviet security officers did: they shot the entire top of the Western Front at once. Yes, the Germans did not even dream of such luck: is it a joke, to get into the headquarters of the Western Front and there […]

Tony Rocchi08.05.2024

Just how unique were the Russian Revolutions of 1905-1907 and 1917-1922? Both revolutions had their elements of uniqueness, but you can determine their uniqueness only by setting these revolutions in the entire history of European revolutions beginning with the revolution of 1768 in Geneva, Switzerland and finishing with the Russian Revolution of 1917-1922. This means […]

Michael Mozzhechkov06.05.2024

Japan has 2.24 million vending machines, making it the country with the most vending machines per capita. Vending machines can easily be found on every street, in hospitals, office buildings, and even on the top of Mount Fuji. On the other hand, the Japanese are constrained in communication and rarely start conversations with strangers. For […]

Klim Zhukov06.05.2024

When Berlin fell, there was still a week left before Victory. On May 2, 1945, the Berlin garrison capitulated. The capital of the Third Reich fell at the feet of the victorious Red Army. At one o’clock in the morning on May 2, the radio stations of the 1st Belorussian Front received a message in […]

Andrey Vedyaev29.04.2024

70 years ago, by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR No.137/40 of March 13, 1954, the State Security Committee was created, which marked a new stage in the history of domestic intelligence services. Over the 37 years of its existence, the KGB has achieved outstanding results in ensuring national security, […]

Andrey Vedyaev25.04.2024

Olga Chekhova was a film star of the Third Reich and Hitler’s favorite actress. And all these years she was at the forefront of the invisible front, playing a complex and dangerous game against the leaders of the Nazi regime. It’s hard to believe, because she was not included in any foreign or military intelligence […]

Sergey Stankevich24.04.2024

April 19, 2024, an international group of biologists and philosophers signed the landmark New York Declaration, which declares that animals are conscious. The paper suggests consciousness in birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and fish, as well as in many invertebrates such as insects, crustaceans and cephalopods. The New York Declaration is based on recent discoveries that […]

Sergey Stankevich24.04.2024

The-First-Post-Communist-Mayor-of-Moscow-Gavriil-Popov-in-1991.jpg

34 years ago the democrats took power in Moscow. On April 20, 1990, Gavriil Popov was elected chairman of the Moscow City Council of People’s Deputies. For the first time in Soviet history, the capital of the USSR was headed not by a party official, but by a scientist-economist. On April 21, Sergei Stankevich became […]

Yuri Chekalin19.04.2024

Monument to the great writer Mikhail Bulgakov, who was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, now stands in Kyiv wrapped in plastic with the words “Get Out the Russian chauvinist from Ukraine.” We asked political observer Alexander Okhrimenko and our author Vladimir Grigoryan to comment on this event. Vladimir Grigoryan: “Bulgakov is a Russian writer. He encroached […]

Michael Mozzhechkov18.04.2024

Tourists in Kyoto. A record 3.08 million foreign visitors visited Japan in March. Japan is on track to meet the government’s goal of surpassing the pre-pandemic figure of 32 million foreign visitors a year by 2025, with the number reaching a record 8.56 million in the January-March quarter, data from the Japan National Tourism Organization […]

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
				1	2	3
4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17
18	19	20	21	22	23	24
25	26	27	28	29	30

Year: 2024

From the Very First Days of the War to Victory Day

Russian and European Revolutions: the Risk of Making False Comparisons

President’s Treat

Fall of Berlin in May 1945

Lubyanka — the KGB House in Moscow

Olga Chekhova — the “Queen of the Nazi Reich” and Russian Spy

Do Animals have Conscious Thought?

Gavriil Popov — the First Post-Communist Mayor of Moscow

“Bulgakov — Get Out the Russian Chauvinist from Kyiv!”

Japan Reopens to Foreign Tourists

About the Revolution Hero And Marshal Budyonny

Bread Instead of Rice

Political Terrorism in its Purest Form: Terrorism in the Russian Empire

Everything Is Relative in This World, And Hockey Is No Exception