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Sergey Stankevich11.08.2023

Oil still remains the main source of export earnings for the Russian Federation. Judging by the report of the International Energy Agency, the actual weighted average price for Russian Urals oil (export by sea) under contracts implemented in July 2023 broke through the price ceiling set by the G-7 countries. This price was $64.41 per […]

Olga Makarova09.08.2023

Once in a while, every parent, to one degree or another, faces the disobedience of their child. In France in the 60s, even a kid named Nicolas was popular — a character in children’s illustrated books, on which more than one generation of French grew up. He is curious and restless, mischievous but a dreamer, […]

Viktor Alksnis31.07.2023

A protest action continues in Batumi against the arrival of the Astoria Grande ship with Russian tourists on board. According to local media, the activists threw eggs and plastic bottles at several buses and minibuses with tourists from the Russian Federation. Protesters are being arrested. In the 1990s and early 2000s, I often visited Adzharia, […]

Vladimir Grigoryan30.07.2023

The holy 90s, as Naina Yeltsin called them, if not to talk about my happy personal life, about my dear friends — this is a series of pictures that turn the heart into stone. October 4, 1993 — The plot on TV: The journalist is fussy, lively, spinning around the bodies of those killed in […]

Yuri Chekalin25.07.2023

One day at sunset in 2000, the expeditor Vyacheslav Prokhorenko found the remains of a soldier next to the German fortifications on the Sinyavinsky Heights in the Leningrad Region. Buttonholes of a junior lieutenant, binoculars, a pistol. And in the pocket of the decayed tunic there is a medallion with a note. They unwind a […]

Viktor Alksnis19.07.2023

Another successful attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Crimean Bridge was inevitable due to two factors. The first is political, connected with the policy of “agreements” with Ukraine and its allies, which the Kremlin and President Vladimir Putin personally are actively trying to pursue. The “grain deal” allowed Ukraine to launch semi-submersible […]

Olga Makarova15.07.2023

Animated Short Film “THOUGHT OF YOU” is a delightful graphic novel with images that look like they’ve stepped out of the pages of an artist’s album and came to life. A great way to show the experience and dreams of each character is simply through a pencil drawing that comes to life without distracting details. […]

Yuri Chekalin07.07.2023

The Assumption, Archangel and Annunciation Cathedrals, the Ivan the Great Bell Tower, the Grand Duke’s Palace, the walls and towers of the Kremlin — all these structures were erected in a little over thirty years, when Moscow and the whole country were actively built in the 15th century. As a result, the monumental architectural and […]

Yuri Chekalin22.06.2023

Last year marked the 60th anniversary of Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin’s visit to Japan. Gagarin had not only visited this exotic country, but also returned the name of our legendary intelligence officer Richard Sorge from there. How did it happen? To the Land of the Rising Sun Yu.A. Gagarin flew on May 21, 1962, together with […]

Sergey Stankevich20.06.2023

Legendary whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg has died at the age of 92. Daniel Ellsberg had a brilliant career in the US law enforcement agencies in the 1960s. He received three degrees from Harvard, served in the Marine Corps, and worked for the Pentagon and its affiliated RAND Corporation. At the time, he was a dedicated Cold […]

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Breaking the Ceiliing

Naughty Children: Nuisance or Blessing

Even a Small Recreancy Has Big Consequences

Remembering the 1990s in Russia

Secrets of the Moscow Metro

Ukrainian Attack on Crimean Bridge

Romance at the Tip of the Pencil

How did the Kremlin become red?

Yuri Gagarin saves Richard Sorge from oblivion

Remembering Daniel Ellsberg

What Should You Do When the Head Doctor is a Pathologist?

Japan to Keep Importing Russian LNG

The Deal of the Century for Trump the Peacemaker

Fasting