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The postponement of the World Friendship Games, scheduled to be held in Yekaterinburg in September, to next year gave me a reason to remember how 38 years ago in Washington I interviewed Ted Turner, the founder of the 24-hour news channel CNN, in connection with the upcoming Goodwill Games, which he started and sponsored as […]

Vladimir Grigoryan08.10.2024

In Russia, 70 percent of marriages break up. The worst, by the way, are in the Caucasian republics. In purely Muslim Ingushetia, there are two and a half divorces per registration, it seems that everyone there has decided to divorce everyone. Traditional marriage is not in crisis there, but in collapse. In Chechnya and Dagestan, […]

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Another major Israeli strike on Beirut may have killed Hezbollah’s new executive chief, Hashim Safi al-Din, cousin and successor to Hassan Nasrallah. According to three Israeli officials, the strike targeted a deep underground bunker where Safi al-Din was located, but it is unclear whether he was killed in the attack. Reuters reports that Safi al-Din […]

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The C919, China’s first domestically-produced long-haul passenger jet, is now in regular commercial service. It is the first domestically-produced commercial jet produced by the state-owned Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC). Boeing and Airbus make almost all the world’s commercial aircraft. Now China wants to get in on the fun and break the duopoly in […]

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In 1974, Nikolai Ivanovich Bragin, who had been a member of the editorial board of this newspaper in Moscow, flew to Ottawa to work as a special correspondent for Pravda. From the very first days of his stay in Canada, Nikolai Ivanovich immediately showed everyone what a big shot he was: when communicating with his […]

Tony Rocchi05.10.2024

One of the greatest unknowns about the history of the Russian Revolution and Civil War of 1917-1922 is the extent of political terrorism during these years. There were many terrorist attacks and politically motivated killings during the Revolution of 1917-1922. Note that historians now tend to combine the February and October Revolutions of 1917 and […]

Sergey Stankevich04.10.2024

At a press conference after a meeting with the new NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, the current President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that he does not see a fundamental difference between Ukraine and Israel. If Israel’s allies help shoot down Iranian missiles and drones, then why not do the same for Ukraine. — “The […]

Artem Drabkin03.10.2024

The time for Zelensky’s assassination is slowly approaching, as I wrote about 1.5 years ago that he is following the path of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem. Zelensky’s role for the US/UK has been played out — the Russian Federation’s ability to unite with Europe is absent, the Russian military potential has been significantly […]

Yuri Chekalin02.10.2024

McDonald’s bought slaves from the mafia to cover the shortage of jobs. This is not a joke, but a real crime that was solved by the police in the UK. In 2015, the gang of the Drevenaki brothers organized a business of selling people — they looked for homeless and unemployed men in Europe and, […]

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