WWII

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 Chekalin10.08.2025

A partisan movement began to form on Belarusian territory as early as the end of the summer of 1941 during World War II. More than one generation will remember these heros — from surviving photographs in family albums, from videos on tablets. Time passes, but the memory of our relatives — veterans of the war […]

Yuri Chekalin08.08.2025

Vasily Martekhov had an interesting fate. Vasily was born into a family of Russian immigrants at the Bukron mine in the American state of Ohio and became the fifth child. By birthright, the boy received US citizenship. His father, a miner, worked 12 hours a day, but received negligible amounts. The Martekhovs lived on a […]

Alexander Palladin08.07.2025

During the Great Patriotic War, a total of 649 signals about enemy air raids and 3,087 reports of artillery shelling were transmitted by Leningrad Radio station, managed by Pyotr Aleksandrovich Palladin. On such occasions, the city radio used to be disconnected from the broadcast network. Instead, the metronome beating was put on the air. For […]

Alexander Palladin08.05.2025

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My great-uncle, Colonel Alexei Afanasyevich Reshetnikov, was wounded twice during the Battle of Moscow. At the end of the war, as Deputy Chief of the Artillery Supply Directorate of the 2nd Belorussian Front, he took part in the largest battles with the Nazis. He was awarded two Orders of the Red Banner, the Order of […]

Yuri Chekalin07.05.2025

The “Immortal Regiment” event and a concert in honor of the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War were held on May 5th at the Russian Embassy in Japan. Descendants of the victors with portraits of their relatives and friends, participants in the Great Patriotic War and home front workers, honored the memory […]

Alexander Palladin04.05.2025

During his state visit to Germany on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, on May 5, 1985, Ronald Reagan stopped in Bitburg, where he laid a wreath at the burial site of German soldiers who died in both world wars. US 40th President did just that […]

Alexander Palladin04.05.2025

During my stay in Washington, D.C. as bureau chief of Izvestia, I took part in numerous TV and radio programs, discussing Soviet-American relations with US politicians, journalists, and political scientists. One of those occasions stucks out in my mind as it dealt with a unique event at American television. On April 19, 1985, I got […]

Alexander Palladin12.03.2025

Two weeks ago, a new feature movie, called “North Pole”, was released in Russia. Based on real facts, it is dedicated to the crew of the first Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-3. Nearly 63 years ago, in mid-July of 1962, it became Soviet Navy’s first submarine to surface in the North Pole area. The vessel was […]

Alexander Palladin28.02.2025

80 years ago, on February 26, 1945, a national mourning was declared in the USSR in memoriam of Alexey Tolstoy, an outstanding writer who passed away just a few months before the Great Victory over Nazi Germany. Official cause of his death was lung cancer, diagnosed a year before. In lots of photos and portraits, […]

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One of the Last Intelligence Officer Survivors

As Father Alexander Was a Partisan Priest During WWII

The Only American Hero of the Soviet Union

As It Happened in Sieged Leningrad

My Platoon of the Immortal Regiment

The Immortal Regiment in Tokyo

US President’s Wreath At SS Burial Site

Spirit of the Elbe Is Gone?

Unique Soviet School

Alexey Tolstoy In Memoriam

Japan to keep importing Russian LNG

The Deal of the Century for Trump the Peacemaker

Fasting

The Glory of the World