Russia

Egor Yakovlev16.01.2025

“Married the woman he loved, wrote a great play, died in battle“, – Pushkin wrote about Griboyedov’s enviable fate. Russian writer, playwright, linguist, historian and orientalist, author of the play “Woe from Wit”, Alexander Sergeevich Griboyedov was born 230 years ago. A vivid description of Griboyedov was given by his contemporary Alexander Pushkin. In “Journey […]

Alexander Palladin25.12.2024

Upon his return to Moscow from Crimea after the well-known events of August 1991, Gorbachev appointed Grigory Revenko as the head of the Presidential Administration instead of Valery Boldin who was arrested for participating in the State Emergency Committee. Revenko brought with him a group of trusted people, including Anatoly Sazonov. He was made the […]

Klim Zhukov21.12.2024

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev was born on December 19, 1906. He is the personification of stability. The people of Rus’-Moscow Kingdom-Russian Empire-USSR have never lived so calmly, well-fed, richly, confidently, but most importantly — calmly. The majority of the population was confident in the future. The other side of memory is the endless jokes about Brezhnev. […]

Vladimir Morozov20.12.2024

For over 30 years, Russian citizens have been participating in a full-scale experiment of building capitalism in the Russian Federation. Since the late 1980s, the Soviet people, then coddled by the greenhouse-like social conditions, were told that socialism means total equalization, and only capitalism will give EVERYONE the opportunity to express themselves and to finally […]

Alexander Palladin16.12.2024

In the Russo-Japanese War that began 120 years ago, Russia suffered defeat which was also caused by its inability to wage properly what we now call information wars. St. Petersburg-based contemporary weekly magazine “Chronicles of the War With Japan” published an article headlined “Japanese Propaganda In Europe”, noting that propaganda of Japanese and Japanophile ideas […]

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 […]

Pushkin on Life and Death of Griboyedov

The End of an Era

On the Birthday of Leonid Brezhnev

Administrative Capitalism or a Fairy Tale from the Ogonyok Magazine that Turned into a Pumpkin

Losing Info Wars Costs Dearly

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

Fasting

The Glory of the World

The Paradox of Russian Central Bank

The Tragedy of “Not-Having-Any”