On March 1 (old style), 1881, in St. Petersburg, the seventh assassination attempt on Alexander II in almost 15 years was made, this time fatal for the Tsar-Liberator. This happened before the eyes of my grandfather Ivan Petrovich Palladin, who had lived in the Russian capital since 1869. The second son of a sexton who […]

Kirill Benediktov16.10.2024

The Israeli factor in American politics is becoming one of the most important — along with abortion and the economy — for the November elections. Trump blames the Biden-Harris administration for Israel’s war against Hamas and Hezbollah, claiming that their policies have strengthened Iran. Harris failed to formulate a clear and concise position on the […]

Egor Sennikov15.10.2024

An artist trying to publish his story about the horrors he experienced in the camps. A writer who became a propagandist in the service of the Nazis. What do they have in common — and where did their different paths lead them? A tram crawls along the Trinity Bridge — oh, excuse me, the Equality […]

Alexander Palladin15.10.2024

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 […]

Klim Zhukov14.10.2024

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 […]

Alexander Palladin12.10.2024

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 […]

Vladimir Golstein11.10.2024

The Canto XXVII features one sinner, named Guido Montefeltro, who was punished for something which is quite contemporary and resonant. Corrupt as he was, Guido still recognized that when the Pope asked him to raze a city off the map, it wasn’t quite kosher. Yet, the Pope assuages his conscience: Don’t worry about it. You’ll […]

Alexander Palladin10.10.2024

The French army has begun to prepare for a new direct clash with our country, claims the American publication Politico, having studied the documents of the French Ministry of Defense. According to the head of the land command of the French army in Europe, General Bertrand Toujouse, “earlier we only played at war” with Russia, […]

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