History & Persons

Natalia Tanshina27.03.2026

Or the question of whether the historian’s main virtue is skepticism?! I’ve written many times about Count Nesselrode and the caricatural image he left in history. And all based on the testimonies of contemporaries. They always spoke the truth and were extremely objective, of course. Who would doubt them?! It wasn’t just the chancellor who […]

Egor Yakovlev27.02.2026

Who was Red Army soldier Matrosov and how did he perform his heroic act? On February 27, 1943, Private Alexander Matrosov, in a battle near the village of Chernushki in the Loknyansky district of the Kalinin region, secured the success of the attacking unit at the cost of his own life, according to the official […]

Egor Yakovlev21.02.2026

Dragunov developed about thirty different models of small arms, which are used by armies around the world. And his brainchild, the SVD sniper rifle, was called by Kalashnikov “the most perfect of all models of this type”. Yevgeny Dragunov was born on February 20, 1920. He lived in Izhevsk. His interest in weapons began during […]

Klim Zhukov18.02.2026

Why is Lenin remembered all over the world? We are told that Lenin is a thing of the past, yet they continue to vilify him, spending millions on books and films that attempt to discredit his name and distort his ideas. Is it just because he was a great revolutionary and the founder of the […]

Kirill Benediktov08.02.2026

In 2012, Barack Obama publicly humiliated Trump at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. Trump was one of the prominent supporters of the theory that Obama was not born in the US, but in Kenya, and therefore was elected president in violation of the Constitution. During the dinner, Obama showed journalists his birth certificate […]

Yuri Chekalin02.02.2026

In times of turmoil, when we seem to hit rock bottom, with newspaper headlines screaming bloody murder and talking heads on TV predicting disasters of Biblical proportions, it’s always nice to just sit back, relax, take a deep breath, and to reflect on events long ago. Take American second President, John Adams. His biographer John […]

Yuri Chekalin19.01.2026

On January 8, 1918, US President Woodrow Wilson presented the Fourteen Points to Congress — a draft peace treaty that would establish US hegemony in international politics and ensure favorable conditions for American monopolies in the global market. From the very beginning of World War I, Wilson had been nurturing and expressing the idea of […]

Tony Rocchi07.01.2026

The Russian Revolution of 1917-1922 as the Apocalypse of the 20th Century. More than 100 years have passed since the Russian Revolution of 1917-1922, but, in so many respects, this revolution is still a great unknown for us. We can say the same about other great revolutions in Europe. Asked what he thought was the […]

Klim Zhukov06.01.2026

On January 7, 1988, the 9th Parachute Company of the 345th Guards Separate Parachute Regiment began fighting against Afghan rebels, sometimes referred to as mujahideen, at Hill 3234. In late 1987, the DRA government garrison and local residents in the border town of Khost in Khost Province, besieged by Afghan rebels, found themselves in a […]

Dmitry Litvinov21.12.2025

Some believe that the abdication of Emperor Nicholas II in March 1917 was the result of a “conspiracy of Duma deputies and generals.” This belief persists despite the fact that the February events in Petrograd have been studied in considerable detail by historical scholars. During World War I, Russia experienced a veritable boom in the […]

Who Killed Pushkin?

The Feat of Alexander Matrosov

The Creator of the Izhevsk Rifle: Designer Yevgeny Dragunov

Memory of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Revenge is a Dish that’s Served Cold

American Leaders

The American World Doctrine of Dominance

The Apocalypse of 1917

Stolen Victory of the 9th Company

Was There a “Conspiracy” in February 1917?

Who Killed Pushkin?

Who Ordered the KilIing of Charlie Kirk?

Flying Already Sucks, but Trump Just Made it Even Worse

Verdict for “Mercy” on 90 Minutes of Legal Action