Russia

Tony Rocchi29.06.2024

Because political terrorism in the Russian Empire remains the Great Unknown, we will go on having huge difficulties in understanding many tendencies in terrorism in today’s world. While it is true that terrorism happens under specific historical circumstances in different countries and periods during different periods, the fact remains that the history of political terrorism […]

Tony Rocchi22.06.2024

Of all the topics in the history of the Russian Empire, one of the most unknown topics is the history of political terrorism in the Russian Empire between 1866-1911. It seems that the history of terrorism in pre-1917 Russia is likely to stay a Great Unknown for a long time. I first encountered terrorism in […]

Sergey Stankevich05.06.2024

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The Shangri La Dialogue has opened, an annual intergovernmental forum on security held by the independent think tank International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). The forum’s name is taken from a hotel in Singapore where meetings have been held since 2002. Defense ministers, permanent heads of ministries and other military leaders of 28 Asia-Pacific countries […]

Yuri Chekalin23.05.2024

In the USA and Great Britain, the name of Vadim BAKATIN is known today by many more people than in Russia. For the West, he is a hero who managed to destroy the KGB in the shortest possible time. That is, to fulfill the task set by the President of the USSR Mikhail GORBACHEV, without […]

Tony Rocchi13.05.2024

Part 1. Comparing the Russian Revolutions of 1905-1907 and 1917-1922 to other revolutions in different countries and regions has its risks. In general, it is safest to set the Russian revolutions in the entire history of European revolutions beginning with the revolution of 1768 in Geneva, Switzerland and finishing with the Russian Revolution of 1917-1922. […]

Tony Rocchi08.05.2024

Just how unique were the Russian Revolutions of 1905-1907 and 1917-1922? Both revolutions had their elements of uniqueness, but you can determine their uniqueness only by setting these revolutions in the entire history of European revolutions beginning with the revolution of 1768 in Geneva, Switzerland and finishing with the Russian Revolution of 1917-1922. This means […]

Sergey Stankevich24.04.2024

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34 years ago the democrats took power in Moscow. On April 20, 1990, Gavriil Popov was elected chairman of the Moscow City Council of People’s Deputies. For the first time in Soviet history, the capital of the USSR was headed not by a party official, but by a scientist-economist. On April 21, Sergei Stankevich became […]

Yuri Chekalin19.04.2024

Monument to the great writer Mikhail Bulgakov, who was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, now stands in Kyiv wrapped in plastic with the words “Get Out the Russian chauvinist from Ukraine.” We asked political observer Alexander Okhrimenko and our author Vladimir Grigoryan to comment on this event. Vladimir Grigoryan: “Bulgakov is a Russian writer. He encroached […]

Tony Rocchi11.04.2024

The far-right Black Hundreds movement had its biggest mass appeal in the borderlands of the Russian Empire, rather than in the core ethnic Russian regions in the empire. Thousands of people in the nine Western Provinces, a transitional zone between the traditional Russian and Polish states, enthusiastically accepted the Black Hundreds message of <<Russia for […]

Yuri Chekalin07.04.2024

The case dates back to not-so-recent times, the 70s of the last century. In the Russian outback, in one of the small provincial town worked a city prosecutor with the talantes conman. The man is not yet old and, on the contrary, is still very promising in age. He did not shine with particular successes […]

Why Terrorism in the Russian Empire Remains the Great Unknown

The Great Unknown — Political Terrorism in the Russian Empire

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Executive Servant of the Spotted Devil

Russian and European Revolutions: More Risky Comparisons

Russian and European Revolutions: the Risk of Making False Comparisons

Gavriil Popov — the First Post-Communist Mayor of Moscow

“Bulgakov — Get Out the Russian Chauvinist from Kyiv!”

The Stronghold of the Black Hundreds in the Russian Empire

The Most Incredible Bribes

A Thaw Too Late?

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The Death of Anglo Influence