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Alexander Palladin03.04.2025

Less than 120 years ago, on September 5, 1905, the Treaty of Portsmouth was signed in New Hampshire, ending the year-and-a-half-long Russo-Japanese War. According to various estimates, up to 80,000 Japanese and up to 52,000 Russian servicemen died in it, including my great-grandfather Afanasy Reshetnikov. For his role in Portsmouth negotiations U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt […]

Vladimir Golstein22.03.2025

And it is much more that the war between two East European countries. The whole damn thing totally penetrated and perverted the western politics for the last eleven years, counting from 2014 Crimea. Endless propaganda and obfuscation as far as the information about the war was concerned. Endless misrepresentation of what was going on. Endless […]

Alexander Palladin20.03.2025

In June 1905, The Chronicle of the War with Japan weekly, published in Russia’s capital, ran this: “It can be said without any doubt that espionage has never been practiced in previous wars on such a large scale as it is being used now by our enemy in the Far East. The Japanese have flooded […]

Dmitri Drobnitsky06.03.2025

According to the US Secretary of State, Ukraine and its allies are trying to sabotage the end of this conflict. Appearing on Sean Hannity’s show on Fox News, he himself brought up the essence of the conflict, also giving a rebuke to “Ukraine’s allies on Capitol Hill and elsewhere.” Hannity asked: what was that last […]

Sergey Stankevich02.03.2025

This is what the US position looks like under Trump, which has now – thanks to the developer Zelensky – fully manifested itself. When the dust settled in the American White House after the touring performance of Zelensky’s troupe, when the wave of anger, gloating and “pathos of office” subsided in the world capitals, when […]

Kirill Benediktov06.02.2025

The New Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pulling the security detail for Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley, suspending his security clearance, and ordering a review of his activities. Milley was given a personal security detail after the January 2020 assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. Iran said at the time that it would […]

Vladimir Golstein04.02.2025

What a strange deja vu one experiences reading Tchaikovsky’s letters provoked by Russian confrontation with Ottoman Empire in defense of Bulgarians and Serbs, butchered by the Turks for their rebellion. For a while, western press, led by British, didn’t want to hear anything bad about Turks or anything good about their victims or the Russians […]

Prot. Victor Harakas29.01.2025

To my knowledge, no formal statement on nuclear proliferation has been issued as yet by any official body of the Orthodox Church. Without a doubt, it will become an issue. In my book, “Contemporary Moral Issues”, I address the “arms race.” I believe that it is the Church’s general teaching that war is not good, […]

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 […]

Alexander Palladin26.11.2024

Nearly 69 million servicemen from 38 countries took part in the First World War, which began 110 years ago. Most of them were from Germany (13 million 250 thousand) and Russia – 12 million. The latter included two of my ancestors. One of them, Nikolai (born in 1890), was the eldest son of my great-grandfather […]

War

Russo-Japanese War: Stalin’s Revanche

Ukraine is Obviously Much More than Ukraine

Espionage Craft Practiced by Japan in Its War with Russia

Marco Rubio: It Was a Proxy War Between Russia And the US From the Beginning

Senior Peacekeeper Seeks Junior

The Pentagon Purge Has Begun

The More Things Change!

Nuclear War

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

World War I Heroes In Memoriam: Part One

Cultural Shock

In the Vatican, the American Pope

My Platoon of the Immortal Regiment

The Immortal Regiment in Tokyo