When Berlin fell, there was still a week left before Victory. On May 2, 1945, the Berlin garrison capitulated. The capital of the Third Reich fell at the feet of the victorious Red Army. At one o’clock in the morning on May 2, the radio stations of the 1st Belorussian Front received a message in […]

Andrey Vedyaev29.04.2024

70 years ago, by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR No.137/40 of March 13, 1954, the State Security Committee was created, which marked a new stage in the history of domestic intelligence services. Over the 37 years of its existence, the KGB has achieved outstanding results in ensuring national security, […]

Andrey Vedyaev25.04.2024

Olga Chekhova was a film star of the Third Reich and Hitler’s favorite actress. And all these years she was at the forefront of the invisible front, playing a complex and dangerous game against the leaders of the Nazi regime. It’s hard to believe, because she was not included in any foreign or military intelligence […]

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34 years ago the democrats took power in Moscow. On April 20, 1990, Gavriil Popov was elected chairman of the Moscow City Council of People’s Deputies. For the first time in Soviet history, the capital of the USSR was headed not by a party official, but by a scientist-economist. On April 21, Sergei Stankevich became […]

Yuri Chekalin19.04.2024

Monument to the great writer Mikhail Bulgakov, who was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, now stands in Kyiv wrapped in plastic with the words “Get Out the Russian chauvinist from Ukraine.” We asked political observer Alexander Okhrimenko and our author Vladimir Grigoryan to comment on this event. Vladimir Grigoryan: “Bulgakov is a Russian writer. He encroached […]

Yuri Chekalin17.04.2024

I was asked to cover in detail the topic of dietary supplements (dietary food supplements). I dug up interesting research and this is not only about the known 70% of toxic hepatitis from the use of dietary supplements. A large study was published in 2019, and in 2023 the American Drug and Food Association published […]

Yuri Chekalin16.04.2024

The legendary comedian Charlie Chaplin was born on April 16, 1889, 135 years ago! Charlie Chaplin miraculously escaped death, because an assassination attempt was being prepared on him during his visit to Japan in 1932. Chaplin was a crowd favorite. In fact, he became the first actor to be adored by crowds and greeted with […]

Michael Mozzhechkov16.04.2024

A year before the opening of the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo, excitement for the event is low and ticket sales have been sluggish. There has also been criticism of construction delays and rising costs making construction difficult. At a press conference on Tuesday organized by the Japan World Expo 2025 Association, producers asked questions such as […]

Yuri Chekalin16.04.2024

On April 12, Russia celebrates Cosmonautics Day. In this regard, I remember a funny story told by the first man to walk in outer space, Alexei Leonov, about Yuri Gagarin: “On April 14, 1961, during a official reception in the Kremlin, Nikita Sergeevich, after the third or fourth toast, carefully asked Gagarin: “Yura, have you […]

Sergey Stankevich15.04.2024

The Great Flood in Moscow took place in April 1908. In the old, ancient times, floods also regularly occurred in Moscow: once every 30-40 years, the waters of the Moskva River, Yauza, Neglinka and small rivers broke out of the banks and walked through the streets of the capital. The rise in water level from […]

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