Yuri Chekalin

Yuri Chekalin18.01.2025

According to research by France Bellisle for the European Food Information Council: “Cultural influences lead to changes in the habits of eating certain foods and in cooking traditions, and in some cases may even lead to restrictions such as eliminating meat and dairy from the diet. Cultural influences are, however, changeable: when moving to a […]

Yuri Chekalin17.01.2025

After World War II, Japan imported many different ideas from America. One of them was that “a bread diet is better for health.” At that time, it was widely advertised that eating rice makes people stupid. Here is what Japanese scientists, supported even by the Japanese government, claimed at the time: “…The character of rice […]

Yuri Chekalin15.01.2025

Fyodor Fyodorovich Serpilin, the main character of Konstantin Simonov’s trilogy “The Living and the Dead”, was a composite image. In him, one could guess the features and destinies of the legendary generals-commanders Alexander Gorbatov and Ivan Grishin, but the main prototype was Colonel Semyon Fyodorovich Kutepov, whom the writer Simonov (at that time – a […]

Yuri Chekalin06.01.2025

Viktor Imantovich Alksnis has passed away… Air Force Colonel, People’s Deputy of the USSR, Deputy of the Supreme Council of the Latvian SSR (1990-1991), Deputy of the State Duma of Russia of the third and fourth convocations… A man who cursed Mikhail Gorbachev’s “perestroika”, a man who defended the interests of the USSR. Fearlessly supported […]

Yuri Chekalin26.12.2024

Dear friends! Wishing you a joyful holiday season full of all the things you love. May it warm your soul, bring love to your heart and bless you with everything this life has to offer. We appreciate your continued support and look forward to another wonderful year together. See you on January 6, 2025! From […]

Yuri Chekalin17.12.2024

Amet-Khan Sultan was born in Crimea on October 25, 1920, to a Lak father and a Crimean Tatar mother. Like many young people of the 1930s, he attended an aeroclub, which determined his future fate. Having been drafted into the army in 1939, Amet-Khan was sent to the Kachin Aviation School, from where he graduated […]

Yuri Chekalin13.12.2024

Einstein once said in an interview in G.S. Viereck’s book “Glimpses of the Great”, in response to a question about whether or not he believed in God. “Your question [about God] is the most difficult in the world. It is not a question I can answer simply with yes or no. I am not an […]

Yuri Chekalin05.12.2024

Here’s what they write in one of the articles on “MOMENTO”: “Winston Churchill loved Armenian cognac and drank a bottle of the famous “Dvin” every day. One day, the prime minister discovered that “Dvin” had lost its former taste. He expressed his dissatisfaction to Stalin. It turned out that the master Margar Sedrakyan, who was […]

Yuri Chekalin24.11.2024

MUFG Bank has fired an employee for allegedly stealing assets worth between 1 billion and 2 billion yen from safe deposit boxes of some 60 customers in Tokyo, the Japanese megabank said. The worker was dismissed on Nov 14 after admitting to stealing the assets at two branches from April 2020 to October this year. […]

Yuri Chekalin16.11.2024

This dog was picked up in July 1883 by sailors from the cruiser Africa in the port of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Returning from a long voyage from the Pacific Ocean, the sailors presented the Kamchatka Laika to Emperor Alexander III. They named the dog Kamchatka. The white and tan Laika Kamchatka became a faithful companion of the […]

Food, Culture, Economy. Part 2.

Food, Culture, Economy. Part 1.

Who Was The Prototype Of Brigade Commander Serplin?

Good Bye Viktor Imantovich…

Happy Holidays!

Amet-Khan Sultan: the Air Ace Who Bacame the Two Times Hero of the Soviet Union

The Question of Science and God

An Evening of Amazing Stories

MUFG Bank Fires Worker for Stealing Over ¥1 Bil from Customers

Royal Laika “Kamchatka”

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