Visitors to the Russian Armed Forces Cathedral in Kubinka, Russia on December 12, 2021, where a mosaic of Soviet soldiers in WWII uniforms is displayed. (Sergey Ponomarev / The New York Times) MOSCOW – Stepping onto a podium in heavy boots and military fatigues at a ceremony outside Moscow, sixRead More →
In the event of war, Russia will be able to call 2.5 times more reservists than the United States. But does it matter in the wars of the future? Western experts quite often make misleading comparisons between the military potential of Russia and the United States. This is well illustratedRead More →
Russia on Monday threatened to deploy nuclear intermediate-range missiles (INF) in Europe, amid escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine. The missiles have a maximum range of 5,000 km, which means that they would be able to hit several European capitals. INF missiles were banned until 2019, when Washington resigned fromRead More →
Fox News host Tucker Carlson addressed Russian-Ukrainian tensions again on Wednesday. He accused some Republicans of seeking to draw the United States into conflict with Vladimir Putin. This followed a segment the day before where Carlson had spoken out in favor of Putin’s actions. Loading Something is loading. Fox NewsRead More →
As the United States and NATO continue their military build-up on Russia’s borders, their representatives are forging ahead with hysterical anti-Russian rhetoric and threats of war. Insisting that Moscow has massed troops and equipment on the Ukrainian border and has increased tenfold its anti-Ukrainian campaign on social media in preparationRead More →
After years of undeclared war in the eastern Donbass region, this week has seen the risk of a full-fledged confrontation between Russia and Ukraine increasing, which threatens to involve Ukraine’s military intelligence chief. NATO Kyrylo Budanov warned the Military Times that over the weekend Russia “had more than 92,000 troopsRead More →
Speaking to talkRADIO on Monday, former Defense Minister Sir Gerald Howarth supported the comments of the Chief of the Defense Staff, General Sir Nick Carter, who warned on Saturday that there was now “greater risk” of accidental war with Russia than at any time during the Cold War. It comesRead More →
The end, when it came, was relatively bloodless after the carnage that had preceded it and what was to follow. A blank shot from the Aurora battle cruiser on the Neva River signaled the departure. Bolshevik soldiers, the Red Guards, had already taken control of key places in Petrograd, includingRead More →
As the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics came to a close and country results gathered, attention turned to individual athletes. This is the case of 19-year-old Ukrainian high jumper Yarolsava Mahuchikh, who went overnight to be celebrated for winning a bronze medal in the high jump event to be questioned forRead More →
The enormous and menacing concentration of Russian troops on the borders with Ukraine and in annexed Crimea was best seen from space. This is probably why it has been noticed all over the world. Hundreds of tanks and planes, more than 120,000 troops from all over the Russian Federation haveRead More →
The Russian Revolution of 1917 was a social uprising that unfolded in two phases, the first in February and the other in October. The day after the Revolution was the bloody Russian Civil War with an estimated death toll of between 5 and 12 million people. The working class andRead More →
World War I saw empires collapse, and among these was the Russian empire of Tsar Nicholas II. When Nicholas declared war on Germany and Austria-Hungary in July 1914, he was the absolute ruler of a kingdom of nearly 150 million people stretching from central Europe to the Pacific and theRead More →
A Ukrainian soldier was fatally injured on March 12 by a Russian sniper near the frontline town of Mariinka, 30 kilometers west of Kremlin-occupied Donetsk. A day later, another Ukrainian serviceman was wounded by enemy fire. On March 12, Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, saidRead More →
TL The short answer is that Japanese imperial policies in Russia have shifted from pure opportunism over land and resources to genuine concern over the arrival of communism in East Asia. I want to stress the last point: Japan was not concerned about Communism in Russia per se, but aboutRead More →
Getty Images A boy in Moscow waves a Communist flag at a rally to mark the 100th anniversary of the October 1917 revolution This month the world remembers the 100 years since the Russian revolutions of 1917. The revolutions in Russia are incredibly important historical events. They marked the startRead More →