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Vladimir Grigoryan22.10.2025

An interesting story happened to Yevgeny Gomberg. A millionaire and philanthropist, he is known in Latvia as a defender of the historical heritage of the Russian Empire. Among other things, he bought monuments to Peter the Great and Barclay de Tolly, which local authorities had decided to get rid of. The case concerns a lawsuit […]

Andrey Vedyaev25.09.2025

September 19 marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Yuri Ivanovich Drozdov, whose name is associated with an entire era in the history of the KGB’s underground intelligence service. It was under his leadership that the Vympel special forces group was created, and the first Heroes of the Soviet Union emerged among the KGB’s […]

Andrey Vedyaev20.09.2025

On December 5, 2024, Colonel Ivan Pavlovich Evtodyev, a veteran of the illegal special purpose intelligence service, an honorary employee of the state Security Service, celebrated his 100th birthday. The last of the surviving employees of General Sudoplatov. Ivan Pavlovich was born in 1924 in the village of Subbottsy in the very center of Ukraine […]

Yuri Chekalin10.09.2025

The famine of the early 1920s affected about 40 provinces of Soviet Russia. In the summer of 1921, the ARA (American Relief Administration) and other international public organizations responded to the appeal of the RSFSR government for assistance. The ARA staff (300 employees from America and about 10,000 from the local population) worked from September […]

Andrey Vedyaev30.07.2025

Hero of the Soviet Union Colonel Stanislav Alekseevich Vaupshasov is one of those people whose lives were spent in campaigns and battles, among forests, hills and mountain passes, behind the front line and, in his own words, at dangerous crossroads. He was born on July 27, 1899 in the town of Gruzdziai, 19 km from […]

Andrey Vedyaev28.07.2025

On July 10, 1900, the legendary Soviet intelligence officer Maria Aleksandrovna Fortus was born into the family of a Kherson banker. She had to look death in the eye more than once, but still stayed alive — it seemed that Fortune herself was on her side. At the age of 16, Maria, carried away by […]

Andrey Vedyaev19.02.2025

Soviet intelligence officer, Hero of Russia Colonel Alexander Semenovich Feklisov can be counted among the most important witnesses of our atomic age without any exaggeration. He was a participant in Operation Enormous, an operation of the NKVD foreign intelligence service to obtain American atomic secrets. It was to him that the outstanding physicist Klaus Fuchs […]

Alexander Palladin11.12.2024

Melor Sturua As a Mirror of Soviet Elite’s Evolution: Part I Soviet authorities upheld the decision to declare Nagorski persona non grata. Thus, Melor Georgievich managed to return to the United States only 8 years later, when our country hit Catastroika, as Alexander Zinoviev, Soviet philosopher, writer, and sociologist, branded Perestroika. In 1990, Sturua started […]

Alexander Palladin10.12.2024

10 days before the US presidential election, Izvestia’s film crew sent from Moscow to cover the event was detained at the Washington airport. The Russian reporters had valid entry visas, but their equipment was taken away, and they were interrogated for several hours. Cameraman’s visa was cancelled and he had to return to Moscow. Which […]

Andrey Vedyaev10.08.2024

The founder of domestic sabotage intelligence is Senior Major of State Security Yakov Serebryansky. A special place in the state security system is occupied by sabotage intelligence. Its purpose, unlike foreign policy intelligence, is not just to collect information about important strategic objects and military and political figures of the enemy, but to penetrate these […]

Spy Games

Illegal Anniversary

One of the Last Intelligence Officer Survivors

The ARA and Espionage

Star of a Chekist

Maria from Kherson

Confession of an Intelligence Officer

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

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

Reconnaissance for Defeat

Japan to keep importing Russian LNG

The Deal of the Century for Trump the Peacemaker

Fasting

The Glory of the World