History & Persons

Alexander Palladin14.11.2024

Pavel Datsyuk, Russia’s Master of Sports Emeritus, Olympic champion, winner of the World and Russian Championships, double Stanley Cup winner, has become yet another, eleventh representative of Russian hockey in Toronto based Hockey Hall of Fame. And in the beginning was Anatoli Vladimirovich Tarasov. He was the first Russian — and European, too — to […]

Yuri Chekalin13.11.2024

Yoshiko Okada is a graceful and refined beauty with an unyielding character who escaped from Japan to the Soviet Union. A Moscow radio announcer, a star of many films and plays, an idol of millions of viewers. This extraordinary woman was born on April 14, 1902 in Hiroshima to a journalist’s family. Since childhood, she […]

Alexander Palladin12.11.2024

My father, Aleksandr Ivanovich Palladin, had a calling for writing since his youth. At the age of 16, having started working as a turner at the largest Podolsk Mechanical Plant (PMZ) in the Moscow region, he began publishing essays about the best workers in the plant’s newspaper “Nasha Pravda” and joined a literary society formed […]

Alexander Palladin09.11.2024

Two-Faced Yakovlev: Part One In 1984, a year after the events of the previous article, Yakovlev released a book “From Truman to Reagan”, in which he “lashed” the master of the White House and his team with the expressions retired after the death of Stalin, the likes of “Clique of Reagan”. Another year passed, and, […]

Alexander Palladin08.11.2024

“A few years ago, a former American intelligence officer whom I knew well, having arrived in Moscow, during dinner at a restaurant on Ostozhenka, said: ‘We know that you have had successes that you have every right to be proud of. But time will pass, and you will gasp (if this is declassified) at what […]

Alexander Palladin06.11.2024

My speech at Richard Bland College, Petersburg, Va. March 20, 1985. “Mr. Chairman, esteemed hosts, ladies and gentlemen! As little as I might know about your country and your mores, I do know that a person in my present position is expected to start with а joke. I feel being under special pressure of this […]

Alexander Palladin06.11.2024

The 40th US President Ronald Reagan was branded Great Communicator. If the USSR had a national leader who deserved such a title it was, no doubt, Joseph Stalin. He recognized the power of PR full well and used it with magnificent dexterity. The military parade at Red Square on November 7th, 1941, is just an […]

Tony Rocchi05.11.2024

World War One was the catalyst that made possible the speedy collapse of the Russian state and society after the overthrow of Tsar Nicholas II in the February Revolution of 1917. All sectors of society in the Russian Empire underwent major changes both on the war front and on the home front from 1914 to […]

Alexander Palladin04.11.2024

In August of 1983 16-year old Andrei Berezhkov, youngest son of Valentin Berezhkov, first secretary of the USSR Embassy, sparked a diplomatic confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. Former Stalin’s interpreter who had translated Soviet leaders’ talks with Hitler, Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt, in the United States V. Berezhkov represented the Institute […]

Alexander Palladin01.11.2024

Back in April 1982 US media revealed President Reagan’s intention to have lunch with a group of Soviet dissidents who had emigrated to the West. Their list contained the names of about a dozen of persons barely known to American people. Meanwhile, the extraordinary event was planned to coincide with the renewal of the Soviet-American […]

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History & Persons

In The Beginning Was Anatoli Tarasov

Tokyo Rose of Russia

Guilty Without Actual Guilt

Two-Faced Yakovlev: Part Two

Two-Faced Yakovlev: Part One

The Soviet Newsman Speaks in the USA

Unforgettable Parade

Brave New World: Russian Society in 1917

Andrei Berezhkov’s Greetings To Mick Jagger

Solzhenitsyn: A Worldwide Dissident

Learn How to Cook Russian Traditional Fish Soup “Solyanka”

In The Beginning Was Anatoli Tarasov

Tokyo Rose of Russia

Federal Rescuers Didn’t Help Households With Trump Posters