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Yuri Chekalin23.02.2023

The first serial killer in the Soviet Union. In late 1922 – early 1923, corpses began to float in the Moscow River, frightening the fishermen. In the abandoned wasteland, passers-by also began to find bodies, tied and packed in bags. Rumors spread around Moscow about a terrible maniac and about people who went to the […]

Viktor Alksnis22.02.2023

For the first time in recent years, I turned on the TV and watched the Address of the President of the Russian Federation to the Federal Assembly. When the President, at the beginning of his Address, acknowledged for the first time that the West’s main goal was to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia, I […]

Sergey Stankevich18.02.2023

The death toll from a series of earthquakes in Turkey and Syria has topped 33,000, with 29,600 dead in Turkey and another 3,500 in Syria. Account is not closed. Earthquake survivors are still being found. But search and rescue efforts are starting to slow down as the chances of finding people alive diminish. The central […]

Olga Makarova14.02.2023

Opposites are known to attract. Because the heroes of the French animated comedy “Jinxy Jenkins & Lucky Lou” were doomed to meet, and, according to the authors’ intention, their meeting was to be completely random and completely captivating the attention of the audience. As a result, an exciting race of heroes in an uncontrolled ice […]

Viktor Alksnis05.02.2023

Ukrainian formations are pulling Western-made armored vehicles from the Kharkiv region to the Svatov direction. In particular, it was transferred from Kharkov by two railway trains to Kupyansk. Further, in Kupyansk, heavy weapons were loaded at the marshalling yard, and then sent in the direction of Svatovo. The Russian group did not take any measures […]

Sergey Stankevich02.02.2023

The US continues to try (apparently not very successful) to completely cut off, or at least hold China back in terms of access to advanced microelectronics. Especially to those integrated circuits that are used in the development of thermonuclear weapons and in their application. From time to time, it turns out that China has once […]

Oleg Bunzhukov29.01.2023

Long gone are the days when in big cities one could admire the countless beauties of the night starry sky. In clear weather, even an inexperienced observer could have a magnificent view of the outer space around us. Indeed, the sky, illuminated by the occasional city lights, was as accessible as in the countryside. Due […]

Viktor Alksnis21.11.2022

I didn’t watch the terrible footage of the execution of our soldiers who had surrendered. When I realized that they surrendered with weapons and combat equipment in their hands, and only one of them took the fight and died in this fight, and the rest were COOL, then from the point of view of the […]

Ilya Ratkovsky28.10.2022

Yuri Chekalin: What attracts you to work as a historian? Ilya Ratkovsky: In the profession of a historian, there are several incentives that help me work and develop. First of all, it is an opportunity to understand the history of your country in the most key moments. The history of the revolution, the Civil War […]

Yuri Chekalin18.10.2022

Pyongyang’s nuclear capability is increasing, but international capacity or interest in dealing with them is limited. The details vary, but the picture is immediately recognizable: a salvo of missiles followed by chilling new rhetoric. This time, North Korean state media claimed that the recent flurry of tests simulated strikes against targets in South Korea and […]

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