Alexander Palladin

Alexander Palladin13.04.2025

A few days ago Washington Capitals forward Alexander Ovechkin broke the long-standing NHL record for goals scored, eclipsing the mark the legendary Wayne Gretzky set more than 25 years ago. By doing so Ovechkin generated an incredible surge of jubilation by millions of Russians. Personally, I can’t remember anything like that since the times when […]

Alexander Palladin03.04.2025

Less than 120 years ago, on September 5, 1905, the Treaty of Portsmouth was signed in New Hampshire, ending the year-and-a-half-long Russo-Japanese War. According to various estimates, up to 80,000 Japanese and up to 52,000 Russian servicemen died in it, including my great-grandfather Afanasy Reshetnikov. For his role in Portsmouth negotiations U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt […]

Alexander Palladin31.03.2025

US President Donald Trump declassified JFK assassination records, including those confirming that Lee Harvey Oswald was a poor marksman. This was mentioned, for instance, in a report by CIA station chief in Moscow. In November 1991, Vyacheslav Nikonov, the then assistant to the KGB head Vadim Bakatin and grandson of former Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov, […]

Alexander Palladin27.03.2025

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In December 1987, Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan held their 3rd summit meeting in Washington and I covered this event in a group of Soviet reporters. While there, I got a call from CNN. They invited me to take part once again in Crossfire nightly TV program. (I was their regular guest during my stay […]

Alexander Palladin20.03.2025

In June 1905, The Chronicle of the War with Japan weekly, published in Russia’s capital, ran this: “It can be said without any doubt that espionage has never been practiced in previous wars on such a large scale as it is being used now by our enemy in the Far East. The Japanese have flooded […]

Alexander Palladin12.03.2025

Two weeks ago, a new feature movie, called “North Pole”, was released in Russia. Based on real facts, it is dedicated to the crew of the first Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-3. Nearly 63 years ago, in mid-July of 1962, it became Soviet Navy’s first submarine to surface in the North Pole area. The vessel was […]

Alexander Palladin01.03.2025

As a student 60 years ago, I attended the annual carnival in Havana. And 10 years later, working as a reporter in Canada, I covered the traditional winter carnival in Quebec City. The capital of the province of Quebec is unlike any other city in Canada as it preserves the originality of the French architecture […]

Alexander Palladin28.02.2025

80 years ago, on February 26, 1945, a national mourning was declared in the USSR in memoriam of Alexey Tolstoy, an outstanding writer who passed away just a few months before the Great Victory over Nazi Germany. Official cause of his death was lung cancer, diagnosed a year before. In lots of photos and portraits, […]

Alexander Palladin21.02.2025

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 […]

Alexander Palladin01.02.2025

As I mentioned recently in my The End of an Era previous piece, in October of 1990, I got an offer to head the Presidential Information Service (PIS) post, reporting directly to Valery Ivanovich Boldin, Chief of Staff of the USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev. Each morning we would prepare digests of the latest mass media […]

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

Russo-Japanese War: Stalin’s Revanche

CIA’s Cent and My Kopeck on JFK Assassination

My TV Duel with Future US Presidential Candidate

Espionage Craft Practiced by Japan in Its War with Russia

Unique Soviet School

Winter Carnival in Quebec City

Alexey Tolstoy In Memoriam

Uncle Sam in Banana Republic of Guatemala

Eyewitness Report on August ’91 Events At Kremlin

The Michael Jackson Biopic is Missing its Most Controversial Story

Madama Butterfly and the Japan of the Western Imagination

The Spanish Civil War at 90: the Republic’s Response

Terminator Is about 80 Years Old