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Alexander Palladin20.01.2025

120 years ago, Russia and Japan waged an armed struggle for the redistribution of spheres of influence in the Far East. The Russian Manchurian army included about 500 clergymen who enjoyed well-deserved authority in the army. Many of them took part in battles, demonstrating courage and heroism while performing their pastoral duty. My grandmother Lida, […]

Alexander Palladin19.01.2025

On September 11, 1981, the Soviet and Canadian national teams met in the decisive game for the Canada Cup. The tournament organizers were so confident of their countrymen’s triumph that they had alotted every single best player award to Canadians only even before the final match started. The game was won, though, by the USSR […]

Yuri Chekalin18.01.2025

According to research by France Bellisle for the European Food Information Council: “Cultural influences lead to changes in the habits of eating certain foods and in cooking traditions, and in some cases may even lead to restrictions such as eliminating meat and dairy from the diet. Cultural influences are, however, changeable: when moving to a […]

Yuri Chekalin17.01.2025

After World War II, Japan imported many different ideas from America. One of them was that “a bread diet is better for health.” At that time, it was widely advertised that eating rice makes people stupid. Here is what Japanese scientists, supported even by the Japanese government, claimed at the time: “…The character of rice […]

Egor Yakovlev16.01.2025

“Married the woman he loved, wrote a great play, died in battle“, – Pushkin wrote about Griboyedov’s enviable fate. Russian writer, playwright, linguist, historian and orientalist, author of the play “Woe from Wit”, Alexander Sergeevich Griboyedov was born 230 years ago. A vivid description of Griboyedov was given by his contemporary Alexander Pushkin. In “Journey […]

Yuri Chekalin15.01.2025

Fyodor Fyodorovich Serpilin, the main character of Konstantin Simonov’s trilogy “The Living and the Dead”, was a composite image. In him, one could guess the features and destinies of the legendary generals-commanders Alexander Gorbatov and Ivan Grishin, but the main prototype was Colonel Semyon Fyodorovich Kutepov, whom the writer Simonov (at that time – a […]

Dmitri Drobnitsky14.01.2025

Stephen Bannon is increasingly angry with Elon Musk, calling him “evil” and “racist” and threatening to expel him from the administration of Donald Trump. At first, everything was harmless. Bannon admitted that he and Musk disagreed “on many, if not all” political issues, but he believed that the head of SpaceX was extremely useful, firstly, […]

Alexander Palladin13.01.2025

On January 7, 1991, I was discussing current issues with Valery Ivanovich Boldin, Chief of Staff of the USSR President, when a red bulb lit up at his desk signaling a phone call from Mikhail Gorbachev. On such occasions visitors had to leave Boldin’s office immediately but Valery Ivanovich picked up the receiver with one […]

Kirill Benediktov11.01.2025

The idea of a union between the United States and Canada arose when American military leaders first invaded Quebec during the American Revolution. A few decades later, the United States unsuccessfully invaded Canada during the War of 1812. “Canada and the United States were at war in 1812,” says Matthew LeBeau, a professor of political […]

Alexander Palladin11.01.2025

Justin Trudeau announced his decision to step down as Canada’s 23rd Prime Minister. With slightly more than 9 years in that office he is № 7 in the national list of longest serving PMs. The eldest son of Pierre Trudeau, on November 4, 2015 he became the second-youngest government leader in Canadian history and the […]

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