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Kirill Benediktov06.02.2025

The New Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pulling the security detail for Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley, suspending his security clearance, and ordering a review of his activities. Milley was given a personal security detail after the January 2020 assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. Iran said at the time that it would […]

Sergey Stankevich05.02.2025

Donald Trump is terrorizing governments of dozens of countries around the world not just for the fun of it, although he has that, too. Donald is forging a new greatness for America. And he is acting according to an ancient but reliable working scheme: attack — kickback. First, it is announced that some country in […]

Vladimir Golstein04.02.2025

What a strange deja vu one experiences reading Tchaikovsky’s letters provoked by Russian confrontation with Ottoman Empire in defense of Bulgarians and Serbs, butchered by the Turks for their rebellion. For a while, western press, led by British, didn’t want to hear anything bad about Turks or anything good about their victims or the Russians […]

Egor Yakovlev03.02.2025

On April 30, 1945, street fighting was at its height in Nazi Berlin. Soviet troops were preparing to storm the Tiergarten district, which was defended by the SS. Both soldiers and civilians were dying in the bloody meat grinder in the center of the densely populated city. On this day, Red Army sergeant Nikolai Masalov, […]

Alexander Palladin01.02.2025

As I mentioned recently in my The End of an Era previous piece, in October of 1990, I got an offer to head the Presidential Information Service (PIS) post, reporting directly to Valery Ivanovich Boldin, Chief of Staff of the USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev. Each morning we would prepare digests of the latest mass media […]

Yuri Chekalin31.01.2025

While in Japan, Nicholas II demanded to get a tattoo, which somewhat shocked the locals. There was a reason for their surprise. Japanese citizens were legally banned from getting tattoos in 1872. Nevertheless, the newspapers wrote that Nicholas got a “tattoo of a dragon more than 1 shaku (about 30 cm) in size on his […]

Yuri Chekalin30.01.2025

Leo Tolstoy and Ivan Turgenev first met in person in 1855 in St. Petersburg. Before that, they had already known each other in absentia through friendly letters to each other and through published works. Ivan Sergeevich was 10 years older than Leo Nikolayevich and, at the time of their first meeting, was the most famous […]

Prot. Victor Harakas29.01.2025

To my knowledge, no formal statement on nuclear proliferation has been issued as yet by any official body of the Orthodox Church. Without a doubt, it will become an issue. In my book, “Contemporary Moral Issues”, I address the “arms race.” I believe that it is the Church’s general teaching that war is not good, […]

Vladimir Golstein28.01.2025

You want insane. Here you have insane. You’ve all heard of Pavlov’s dog. The dog that has demonstrated physiological reflexes of animal brain in response to the external stimuli. Great Russian scientist, the Nobel Prize Winner, Ivan Pavlov, had studied these brain reflexes. So there was his monument in Kiev, in front of a hospital. […]

Alexander Palladin28.01.2025

On January 27, 1944, the military blockade of Leningrad, the 2nd largest city in the USSR, by German and Finnish troops was finally broken. It lasted for 872 days and ranks as the longest and most lethal siege in world history, causing an estimated 1.5 million deaths. Some historians speak of the siege operations in […]

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The Pentagon Purge Has Begun

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Prototype on the Liberator Soldier monument in Berlin

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The Law of Tomorrow

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