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Alexander Palladin15.05.2025

As I mentioned in Part 1 of this article, in 1973 I started working as a reporter in Canada. There, and later on in USA, I experienced a real shock to find out how little local people knew about other nations, their culture and history. In 1950s my father worked at Goslitizdat, the biggest Soviet […]

Klim Zhukov15.05.2025

Jaroslav Hašek was born on April 30, 1883. He was a Czech satirist, anarchist, playwright, feuilletonist, and journalist. He wrote about 1,500 different short stories, feuilletons, and other works, of which his unfinished novel, The Good Soldier Švejk, gained worldwide fame. Hašek spent his entire life making fun of himself and the world around him. […]

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 […]

Dmitri Drobnitsky12.05.2025

The White House is considering accepting a 747-8 as a gift from Qatar. The Boeing aircraft concern cannot replace the heavily worn-out US Air Force No. 1 in a reasonable time frame and for affordable money. In the best-case scenario, the two new aircraft will only be at the Air Force’s disposal by 2029. Donald […]

Alexander Palladin12.05.2025

In September 1973, I started working as a Soviet reporter in Canada. That was my first travel to the West as an adult. At the beginning my Canadian acquaintances would often inquire, “Do you feel a cultural shock?” Lots of things, quite understandably, seemed peculiar to me and my wife. However, we took them in […]

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 […]

Alexander Palladin08.05.2025

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My great-uncle, Colonel Alexei Afanasyevich Reshetnikov, was wounded twice during the Battle of Moscow. At the end of the war, as Deputy Chief of the Artillery Supply Directorate of the 2nd Belorussian Front, he took part in the largest battles with the Nazis. He was awarded two Orders of the Red Banner, the Order of […]

Yuri Chekalin07.05.2025

The “Immortal Regiment” event and a concert in honor of the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War were held on May 5th at the Russian Embassy in Japan. Descendants of the victors with portraits of their relatives and friends, participants in the Great Patriotic War and home front workers, honored the memory […]

Dmitry Narinsky05.05.2025

The image of the city of the future is one of the eternal questions that torments the minds of both architects and those responsible for urban development. This question was asked both in ancient times at the dawn of the current civilization and in our days. At different times, different thinkers described various models of […]

Alexander Palladin04.05.2025

During his state visit to Germany on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, on May 5, 1985, Ronald Reagan stopped in Bitburg, where he laid a wreath at the burial site of German soldiers who died in both world wars. US 40th President did just that […]

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