News about Eastern Europe such as Russia, Ukraine, Romania and the Baltic Nations, including archived articles on Tsarizm.
Image by Kremlin.ru Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov declared the American military stayed away from Russia’s ‘red lines’ when attacked Syrian chemical weapons facilities earlier in the month. The United States, Britain, and France launched a total of 105 cruise missiles into the Syrian theater in response to the use…
Screenshot Youtube One of the members of the Russian, punk, feminist band Pussy Riot, Masha Alekhina (Maria Alyokhina), was arrested along with other protesters for throwing paper airplanes at the Russian Security Service building in Moscow in protest of the Russian government blocking the popular messaging service Telegram. They symbol…
Putin Still Wants Deal With Trump, Even After Sanctions, Syria Attack.
Image Project K High Altitude Nuclear Tests in Soviet Union Fears of another nuclear accident grew in late 2017 when abnormally high traces of Ru-106, an isotope only produced by the splitting of atoms, were found in the air over Eastern and Western Europe. Initial suspicions focused on Russia and…
Russian Journalist Who Covered Oligarch’s Wagner Mercenaries In Syria ‘Accidentally’ Falls To His Death From Fifth Floor Balcony.
Image by Peter Curbishley Russia had tested whether door handles could be used to deliver nerve agents and had targeted the email accounts of Sergei and Yulia Skripal since at least 2013, according to previously classified intelligence over the Salisbury attack that has been made public. Poisoned Former Russian Spy…
Image by Kremlin.ru Russia doesn’t make much, but they do make really good weapons. In fact, one of the purposes of Russian involvement in the civil war in Syria, in addition to preserving Russian influence in the region, was to promote Russian military technology. The entire conflict has been one…
Russia reached the apogee of its success during the reign of Catherine II (the Great), who died in 1796. During her tenure, Russia rose to become one of the great European powers, a role her successors, all of them, managed to squander. Pushkin, writing in the 1820’s, remarked that after…