Russia

Alexander Palladin09.12.2024

World War I Heroes in Memoriam: Part I Since 2017, on December 9 Russia celebrates the annual Day of Heroes of the Fatherland. One of them was my grandfather Pyotr Vasilyevich who got two St. George’s Crosses during World War I. He belonged to the ancient Korchagin family, who lived in the Ryazan region at […]

Vladimir Golstein01.12.2024

In the late XIX century, an American named George Kennan (distant relative of the famous George Kennan of the containment doctrine), traveled through Siberia. The dude loved Russia and used every opportunity (work for telegraph company and journalism) to travel through Russia’s most exotic parts. He collected some of his observations into a two volume […]

Alexander Palladin29.11.2024

Jack London Covered The War Where My Ancestors Fought: Part 1 and Part 2. In Chemulpo Jack London found out that the war he was supposed to cover had begun a week before and that on its very first day after a brief battle with a Japanese squadron, Russian sailors instead of surrending sank their […]

Sergey Stankevich24.11.2024

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi has strongly denied reports that Tehran’s UN envoy has met with US billionaire Elon Musk. Araqchi warned that Iran is “ready for confrontation or cooperation” in its dispute with the IAEA and Western countries over its nuclear program. — “In my opinion, the US media’s fabrications about Elon Musk’s meeting […]

Alexander Palladin22.11.2024

Jack London Covered The War Where My Ancestors Fought: Part 1 Jack London managed to get a ticket on a Japanese steamship to Korea only in Moji. Before boarding it, he decided to wander around the city and take pictures, but was arrested by local police who mistook him for a Russian spy. On February […]

Alexander Palladin19.11.2024

120 years ago, the Russo-Japanese War broke out, and by the end of February, 1904, some 50 foreign correspondents, mainly English and American, arrived in Japan. Among them was Jack London, one of the most popular foreign writers in Russia, where his novels and stories were printed in more than 77 million copies. At school […]

Yuri Chekalin16.11.2024

This dog was picked up in July 1883 by sailors from the cruiser Africa in the port of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Returning from a long voyage from the Pacific Ocean, the sailors presented the Kamchatka Laika to Emperor Alexander III. They named the dog Kamchatka. The white and tan Laika Kamchatka became a faithful companion of the […]

Morgana Devlin15.11.2024

In general, I adore Solyanka-style soups (“Salted Soup”)! Their single downside – they are lacking in complex carbs the likes of barley or buckwheat, but you can always have them as a side dish. On the other hand, Solyanka – fish and meat style – will charge you with protein, and, in general, it’s a […]

Lucy Dickerson11.11.2024

I had barely had time to come to my senses yesterday after the words of the senior adviser to Trump’s team, a strategist from the Republican Party, one might say, Brian Lanza. He siad if Zelensky drags territorial issues to the table of potential negotiations with Russia, in particular, the issue of Crimea, then no […]

Tony Rocchi05.11.2024

World War One was the catalyst that made possible the speedy collapse of the Russian state and society after the overthrow of Tsar Nicholas II in the February Revolution of 1917. All sectors of society in the Russian Empire underwent major changes both on the war front and on the home front from 1914 to […]

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World War I Heroes In Memoriam: Part II

The Convicts this Moan Call a Song

Jack London Covered The War Where My Ancestors Fought: Part 3

Iran Ready for Confrontation or Cooperation

Jack London Covered The War Where My Ancestors Fought: Part 2

Jack London Covered The War Where My Ancestors Fought

Royal Laika “Kamchatka”

Learn How to Cook Russian Traditional Fish Soup “Solyanka”

Don’t get your hopes up on Trump

Brave New World: Russian Society in 1917

The Question of Science and God

Perestroika Architect Yakovlev And H-Bomb’s Father Sakharov

Melor Sturua As a Mirror of Soviet Elite’s Evolution: Part II

Exodus from Syria