From Kaliningrad to Vladivostok, Russian schoolchildren are preparing for the most important holiday of the year: Victory Day. Commemorated with a grand military parade on Moscow’s Red Square every May 9, the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi Germany has long been used by authorities to rally support for the state….
American Secretary of State Tillerson and Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov will meet soon in Washington to discuss the situation in Syria and in East Ukraine. “On Ukraine, the sides will discuss the need to stop the violence in eastern Ukraine and resolve the conflict through the full implementation of the…
Image by Lorie Shaull The sound of the guillotine that cut off the head of Louis XVI on January 21st, 1793 was heard yesterday all over France, loud and clear. Louis XVI paid with his head (and those of his wife, Marie Antoinette and their two young children) for the…
Terrorist snipers in Syria, are using sophisticated night vision equipment that have built-in Russian electronics. Kommersant.ru claims with reference to experts who have studied weapons of the fighters. “We found so called electronic optical converters, produced in Russia”, – implied the source of publication. However, how they got into…
Like Elizabeth Warren, Washington’s hysterical obsession with Russia is persisting. At least a year old, it’s showing no signs of fatigue. Russia is essentially accused of not particularly liking Hillary Clinton and digging up some “kompromat” on her, which, unlike Trump’s “dossier”, also happened to be undeniably true. This material…
Early this week the president of Russia – Vladimir Putin met with th president of South Ossetia, Anatoly Bibilov. The two presidents discussed economic issues and future partnership between Russia and South Ossetia – confirmed the official web page of the Kremlin. During their conversation with Bibilov,…
Russia and Turkey have agreed to lift all trade restrictions that were imposed after Turkey shot down a Russian fighter jet that had strayed into Turkish airspace from Syria. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Erdogan spoke at a news conference in Sochi after a meeting. “You asked…
After the end of the Great Patriotic War, Soviet leader Nikita Krushchev decided to move citizens from the communal flats of the WWII period in to low-quality apartment blocks that were massed produced during the 1950s and beyond. These were to last only fifty years. Russians still live in them….
NORTH Korea’s failed missile was heading towards Russia prompting Vladimir Putin to place his country on high alert amid World War Three fears, according to Seoul news reports. According to Seoul Economy Daily, the missile was heading towards Russia before it broke up. The paper said: “If the ballistic missile…
The violence that swept the Macedonian parliament on April 27 was owed to the fact that politics in the Former Yugoslavian Republic have been blocked since last December’s indeterminate elections. Violence broke out on the pretext that Talat Xhaferri, an Albanian, was elected as Assembly Chairman. Xhaferri was voted in…