Russia’s Ded Moroz (Grandpa Frost) has a close relative in the Western world. His name is Santa Claus, also known as Saint Nicholas. They both have the same gentle, kind characters and similar duties, i.e. to deliver gifts to children and to amuse people at large. What makes them different, though, is their names, different […]

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 […]

Alexander Palladin25.12.2024

Upon his return to Moscow from Crimea after the well-known events of August 1991, Gorbachev appointed Grigory Revenko as the head of the Presidential Administration instead of Valery Boldin who was arrested for participating in the State Emergency Committee. Revenko brought with him a group of trusted people, including Anatoly Sazonov. He was made the […]

Tony Rocchi25.12.2024

Political terrorism in the Russian Empire is still a very painful subject for many people in today’s Russia. The reasons for these painful thoughts about terrorism vary. For some people, the sheer enormity of the number of victims—17,000 people killed or wounded between 1901-1911. Other people are shocked by the duration of terrorism between 1866-1911 […]

Prot. Victor Harakas23.12.2024

Within modern Orthodox Christianity, varying views on the subject exist. They can, however, be classified in two basic approaches, with methods and conclusions appropriate to each. The Very Rev. Chrysostom Zafiris’ article is characteristic of one approach. A book written in Greek a number of years ago by Fr. Seraphim Papacostas, entitled “To Zetema tis […]

Klim Zhukov21.12.2024

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev was born on December 19, 1906. He is the personification of stability. The people of Rus’-Moscow Kingdom-Russian Empire-USSR have never lived so calmly, well-fed, richly, confidently, but most importantly — calmly. The majority of the population was confident in the future. The other side of memory is the endless jokes about Brezhnev. […]

Vladimir Morozov20.12.2024

For over 30 years, Russian citizens have been participating in a full-scale experiment of building capitalism in the Russian Federation. Since the late 1980s, the Soviet people, then coddled by the greenhouse-like social conditions, were told that socialism means total equalization, and only capitalism will give EVERYONE the opportunity to express themselves and to finally […]

Alexander Palladin19.12.2024

In mid-80s, I bought a photo album with this title in a Washington-based book store. As a result, by pure chance, I learned about Russia’s pioneer of color photography who at the beginning of the 20th century carried out a titanic task of taking hundreds of superb pictures of what used to be called Russian […]

Dmitri Drobnitsky18.12.2024

Liz Cheney is suspected of pressuring witnesses and conspiring to destroy evidence in the January 6 events. Donald Trump was the first to publicly call for criminal prosecution of Liz Cheney (the daughter of that same Dick Cheney). He said that she and some other members of the House Select Committee (then controlled by Democrats) […]

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