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Alexander Palladin12.05.2025

In September 1973, I started working as a Soviet reporter in Canada. That was my first travel to the West as an adult. At the beginning my Canadian acquaintances would often inquire, “Do you feel a cultural shock?” Lots of things, quite understandably, seemed peculiar to me and my wife. However, we took them in […]

Alexander Palladin01.03.2025

As a student 60 years ago, I attended the annual carnival in Havana. And 10 years later, working as a reporter in Canada, I covered the traditional winter carnival in Quebec City. The capital of the province of Quebec is unlike any other city in Canada as it preserves the originality of the French architecture […]

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 […]

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 […]

Alexander Palladin03.12.2024

Since 2009, December 1 has been celebrated in Russia as the Hockey Day, commemorating the first national ice hockey championship, lauched in the USSR on December 1, 1946. In our country the Hockey gained popularity so quickly that only 7 years later, on March 7, 1954, the Soviet national team on its very first try […]

Alexander Palladin14.11.2024

Pavel Datsyuk, Russia’s Master of Sports Emeritus, Olympic champion, winner of the World and Russian Championships, double Stanley Cup winner, has become yet another, eleventh representative of Russian hockey in Toronto based Hockey Hall of Fame. And in the beginning was Anatoli Vladimirovich Tarasov. He was the first Russian — and European, too — to […]

Alexander Palladin08.11.2024

“A few years ago, a former American intelligence officer whom I knew well, having arrived in Moscow, during dinner at a restaurant on Ostozhenka, said: ‘We know that you have had successes that you have every right to be proud of. But time will pass, and you will gasp (if this is declassified) at what […]

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 […]

Alexander Palladin06.10.2024

In 1974, Nikolai Ivanovich Bragin, who had been a member of the editorial board of this newspaper in Moscow, flew to Ottawa to work as a special correspondent for Pravda. From the very first days of his stay in Canada, Nikolai Ivanovich immediately showed everyone what a big shot he was: when communicating with his […]

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Canada

Cultural Shock

Winter Carnival in Quebec City

I Helped the USSR National Team Get People’s Canada Cup

Attempts to annex Canada go back to the early history of the US

Unlike Father, Unlike Son

“Bobrov and His Team Are True Champions!”

In The Beginning Was Anatoli Tarasov

Two-Faced Yakovlev: Part One

Dyson Carter, Our Loyal Betrayed Friend

A Black Sheep in a Black Buick

“A Gift, Free Of Charge”

Cultural Shock

In the Vatican, the American Pope

My Platoon of the Immortal Regiment