When the Great Patriotic War began, my father was drafted into the Red Army, but was discharged due to a congenital heart defect and had to return to his civic journalistic duties in Moscow. In July 1941, he took my elder brother Valery to Skopin where our grandmother Lidya lived in the midst of the […]

Yuri Chekalin16.11.2024

This dog was picked up in July 1883 by sailors from the cruiser Africa in the port of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Returning from a long voyage from the Pacific Ocean, the sailors presented the Kamchatka Laika to Emperor Alexander III. They named the dog Kamchatka. The white and tan Laika Kamchatka became a faithful companion of the […]

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Dmitri Drobnitsky13.11.2024

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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 […]

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I Felt it First in Russian Speaking Community in the US. The drastic increase in hatred: political hatred that quickly became personal. Since 2014, the community became split. And ‘split” does not even cover the extend of it. Broken up, with one part canceling another. How dare they support Russia? How dare they speak the […]

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