War

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 […]

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 […]

Viktor Alksnis21.09.2024

Many commentators waving Yandex (Google) maps with space images of the arsenals and storage bases of the Russian Ministry of Defense forget about elementary things. Firstly, these space images are usually long-term from the moment of shooting. Sometimes several years. After all, the images are purchased from operator companies, and their cost is very high. […]

Sergey Stankevich15.09.2024

The UN expressed concern over the rhetoric around nuclear weapons. The UN expressed concern over the re-emerging rhetoric about nuclear weapons in the context of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. In particular, discussions around nuclear weapons began to gain momentum after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky launched a lobbying campaign to lift restrictions on the […]

Viktor Alksnis05.09.2024

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Western countries have always sought to break up Russia. “The spearhead is aimed, at this stage, against Russia. As the president said in February in his address to the Federal Assembly, instead of Russia they need a dependent, fading, dying space where they can do whatever they want. […]

Viktor Alksnis27.08.2024

Chronicle of current events in Kursk Oblast for August 25. It was the 20th day of the Ukrainian army’s invasion of Russian territory. The Ukrainian Armed Forces continued active offensive actions, the Russian group successfully defended itself. Over the past night, there were no significant changes in the operational situation in the Kursk border area. […]

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

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

Jack London Covered The War Where My Ancestors Fought

War Came to Russia

The Threat of Nuclear War is Growing

Lavrov’s Special Message

Kursk, August 25

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