Perestroika, among other things, led to the severance of ties with millions of foreign friends, many of whom devoted their entire lives to establishing normal relations with our people. Among them was the Canadian writer, scientist, educator and publisher Dyson Carter (1910-1996). “During his fifty-plus years of writing, Dyson Carter published hundreds of magazine and […]

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On October 9, 1967, Comrade Che, aka Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, a glorious son of the Argentine people, commander of the Cuban Revolution of 1959 and Cuban statesman, was executed in a school in the Bolivian village of La Higuera. Apparently, the reason for the decision to execute Che Guevara was the reluctance of […]

Alexander Palladin13.10.2024

The tension in our military-political confrontation with the West, unprecedented since the mid-1980s, gives many a reason to recall the Cuban Missile Crisis. In this regard, it is appropriate to recall the Hollywood documentary drama “Thirteen Days” released in 2000. The film was based on the book of the same name by the brother of […]

Sergey Stankevich12.10.2024

There is such an important social indicator as the “replacement rate”. It shows how much the average pension in a given country (as a percentage) is from the average salary. A replacement rate above 50% is considered desirable — it depends on how it works out. Russia has had long-standing difficulties with this indicator. In […]

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The unprecedented terrorist attack carried out by Israeli intelligence services in Lebanon, where hundreds of people suffered from the simultaneous detonation of booby-trapped gadgets, gave reason to recall the memoirs of former Mossad employee Victor Ostrovsky, “By Way of Deception”, published overseas in 1990. Becoming the scapegoat after the failed Mossad operation, the great-grandson of […]

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“Dear comrade Zemlyachka… we ask you to let our mother go.“ (F.R5446. Op.56. D.5. L. 53,53ob.) A heart-wrenching letter written in 1942 to Rosalia Zemlyachka (then deputy chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR) from a teenage girl, Nadezhda Sakharova, who lived in the regional Moscow on the Bekasovo state farm near […]

Alexander Palladin08.10.2024

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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