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Vladimir Golstein23.02.2025

February 23 is a big holiday in Russia. Day of Red Army, Day of Defender of Motherland, Man’s day. Long lasting Soviet tradition of celebrating men who served, serve or will serve in the army. Yes, like al men in uniform, many managed to distinguish themselves with feats of courage and strength. At the same […]

Yuri Chekalin22.02.2025

Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay Jr. brought the skulls of the inhabitants of Papua New Guinea to their historical homeland. The remains of several dozen people were taken to Australia and Russia for research in the 19th century by the famous Russian scientist Miklouho-Maclay Sr. On February 19, the skulls will be handed over to the descendants of […]

Vladimir Golstein22.02.2025

Perestroika is Coming to Town. I Mean Washington Town. Of course, the legacy of Gorbachev is complex. For many he was a hero, for many — a traitor. He did what was necessary! — No! He destroyed the best country on earth. I didn’t live in Russia during perestroika, but I know it was incredibly […]

Alexander Palladin21.02.2025

Over 70 years ago, in June 1954, the United States overthrew the first democratically elected president in Guatemala’s history, Jacobo Arbenz, and Washington’s protégé, Colonel Castillo Armas, seized power in Central America’s most populated country. Armas established a military dictatorship, which sparked a civil war that lasted for 36 years and caused genocide of the […]

Tatiana Kasatkina20.02.2025

“…two men went up into the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus within himself, ‘God, I thank you that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice a week, I give tithes of […]

Andrey Vedyaev19.02.2025

Soviet intelligence officer, Hero of Russia Colonel Alexander Semenovich Feklisov can be counted among the most important witnesses of our atomic age without any exaggeration. He was a participant in Operation Enormous, an operation of the NKVD foreign intelligence service to obtain American atomic secrets. It was to him that the outstanding physicist Klaus Fuchs […]

Vladimir Golstein19.02.2025

Of course, I am not a historian of Trump impeachment proceedings, but from what I remember, they were mostly about the so-called “Ukraine-gate.” That is, Trump knew that Zelensky had plenty of dirt on Biden and his coke-head son. So he told Zelensky to give him some goods before he released another billion dollar packet […]

Robert Reich17.02.2025

Friends, I want to talk today about the media’s coverage of the Trump-Vance-Musk coup. I’m not referring to coverage by the bonkers right-wing media of Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News and its imitators. I’m referring to the U.S. mainstream media — The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, The New […]

Vladimir Golstein16.02.2025

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50th Vice President of the United States James David Vance is Trolling Europeans into Trance. On the surface of it, they just don’t know how to react to the speech that asks them to look at themselves, rather than repeating the usual mantra: Russia—Russia—Ukraine—Money, Money—Russia—Russia. But there is something deeper, obviously. Russophobia had always been […]

Egor Sennikov16.02.2025

I often think about what it is like to create something with full effort, being on the threshold of death. We are all doomed to it, of course, but we drown out thoughts about it with the vanity of life, work and idleness, feelings and entertainment. But when it has already knocked on the door, […]

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Sad Musings on Russia’s Patriotic Day

Miklouho-Maclay Jr. brought to Papua New Guinea skulls taken by his ancestor

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Confession of an Intelligence Officer

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Americans, rise up!

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