Kirill Benediktov

Kirill Benediktov13.05.2025

Western media outlets continue to marvel at Trump’s turn from “thug” Putin to “hero” Zelensky. But in the camp of the most devout Trumpists, the MAGA movement, there is little enthusiasm. “MAGA base isn’t stirring up trouble — but still skeptical of Ukraine,” Axios reports in an article headlined “MAGA Keeps Quiet as Trump, Vance […]

Kirill Benediktov11.05.2025

Pope Leo XIV, formerly Cardinal Robert Prevost, is the first American to hold the See of St. Peter. He is an American born in Chicago, but not Anglo-Saxon: his father, a Navy sailor and World War II veteran, is half French and half Italian, and his mother, a librarian, is Spanish by birth. The new […]

Kirill Benediktov29.04.2025

After the death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday, the Catholic Church will begin the process of choosing the next Bishop of Rome, thereby determining the future course of the Church and its 1.3 billion followers. A conclave of the College of Cardinals will convene in the Sistine Chapel of the Vatican within 15 to […]

Kirill Benediktov19.03.2025

On Sunday, two close associates of US President Donald Trump — his special representative for the Middle East Stephen Witkoff, who just returned from Moscow, and his national security adviser Mike Waltz — on top US programs slightly lifted the curtain on the Moscow-Washington talks on the Ukrainian conflict, which are currently taking place in […]

Kirill Benediktov26.02.2025

A few days ago, the influential American newspaper The Wall Street Journal published an interesting column by its former editor-in-chief Gerard Baker, “The Strategy and Pitfalls of Trump’s New World Order.” In full accordance with the joke about how to teach geography to lazy schoolchildren (“stun — intrigue — explain”), Baker begins with a backhand […]

Kirill Benediktov15.02.2025

Donald Trump Jr. reposted WikiLeaks file on X network, which pertained to both USAID and 1990s Russia. USAID funneled nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6 million) through the secretive, US government-funded NGO Internews Network (IN), which “worked” with 4,291 media outlets around the world, producing 4,799 hours of broadcasts in 2023 alone, reaching up to […]

Kirill Benediktov06.02.2025

The New Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pulling the security detail for Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley, suspending his security clearance, and ordering a review of his activities. Milley was given a personal security detail after the January 2020 assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. Iran said at the time that it would […]

Kirill Benediktov11.01.2025

The idea of a union between the United States and Canada arose when American military leaders first invaded Quebec during the American Revolution. A few decades later, the United States unsuccessfully invaded Canada during the War of 1812. “Canada and the United States were at war in 1812,” says Matthew LeBeau, a professor of political […]

Kirill Benediktov02.11.2024

The current US president called Trump supporters “garbage”. Ahead of Kamala Harris’s final campaign speech, Joe Biden gave her a huge, cheerfully grunting pig. Commenting on comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s joke, who called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” at Donald Trump’s rally in Madison Square Garden in New York, Biden said: “The only garbage […]

Kirill Benediktov23.10.2024

Donald Trump’s appearance in the McDonald’s window and his arrival at the stadium where the Pittsburgh Steelers were playing the New York Jets were two of the coolest PR moves by the former and future US president. The Steelers, by the way, beat the New Yorkers 37-15. And two former Pittsburgh Steeler stars Antonio Brown […]

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In the Vatican, the American Pope

Who Will Be Pope

The Moscow-Washington Talks in a Gist

The Brave New World of Trump

Money for Democracy?

The Pentagon Purge Has Begun

Attempts to annex Canada go back to the early history of the US

Biden’s “October Surprise”

Trump Can Already Be Considered to Have Won Pennsylvania

Cultural Shock: Chingiz Aitmatov

The World of Jaroslav Hašek

MAGA Isn’t Happy With Trump-Zelensky Warming

“A Gift, Free Of Charge”