December 1, 1896 was the birthday of Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov, a Soviet military leader and statesman. Marshal of the Soviet Union (1943), four times Hero of the Soviet Union (1939, 1944, 1945, 1956), holder of two Orders of Victory (1944, 1945), six Orders of Lenin (1936, 1939, 1945, 1956, 1966, 1971), and many other Soviet […]

Alexander Palladin03.12.2024

Since 2009, December 1 has been celebrated in Russia as the Hockey Day, commemorating the first national ice hockey championship, lauched in the USSR on December 1, 1946. In our country the Hockey gained popularity so quickly that only 7 years later, on March 7, 1954, the Soviet national team on its very first try […]

Lucy Dickerson02.12.2024

Papa Biden has granted a presidential pardon to his son Biden Jr., who was supposed to be sentenced on December 12 and 16 in two court cases that he lost — tax evasion and filing false information when purchasing a firearm. In one case, the term could theoretically be up to 17 years, in the […]

Vladimir Golstein01.12.2024

In the late XIX century, an American named George Kennan (distant relative of the famous George Kennan of the containment doctrine), traveled through Siberia. The dude loved Russia and used every opportunity (work for telegraph company and journalism) to travel through Russia’s most exotic parts. He collected some of his observations into a two volume […]

Alexander Palladin29.11.2024

Jack London Covered The War Where My Ancestors Fought: Part 1 and Part 2. In Chemulpo Jack London found out that the war he was supposed to cover had begun a week before and that on its very first day after a brief battle with a Japanese squadron, Russian sailors instead of surrending sank their […]

Alexander Palladin27.11.2024

In March 1947, a delegation of deputies of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR arrived in London in response to similar visit of English parliamentarians to our country a year before. The Soviet delegation included famous writers like Konstantin Simonov and Alexander Fadeyev, plus future chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Vasily Kuznetsov […]

Alexander Palladin26.11.2024

Nearly 69 million servicemen from 38 countries took part in the First World War, which began 110 years ago. Most of them were from Germany (13 million 250 thousand) and Russia – 12 million. The latter included two of my ancestors. One of them, Nikolai (born in 1890), was the eldest son of my great-grandfather […]

Egor Sennikov25.11.2024

In Manchukuo, the Japanese were creating a completely new state that was theoretically independent, meaning that there were no restrictions on the policies the new state could pursue. Many university graduates in Japan, despite being opposed to the social system that existed in Japan itself, went to work in Manchukuo, believing that they could carry […]

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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi has strongly denied reports that Tehran’s UN envoy has met with US billionaire Elon Musk. Araqchi warned that Iran is “ready for confrontation or cooperation” in its dispute with the IAEA and Western countries over its nuclear program. — “In my opinion, the US media’s fabrications about Elon Musk’s meeting […]

Alexander Palladin22.11.2024

Jack London Covered The War Where My Ancestors Fought: Part 1 Jack London managed to get a ticket on a Japanese steamship to Korea only in Moji. Before boarding it, he decided to wander around the city and take pictures, but was arrested by local police who mistook him for a Russian spy. On February […]

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