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Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump adopted a joint statement on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Elbe Day. Its text is published on the Kremlin website. It says that today marks the 75th anniversary of …
Today, many political scientists and philosophers often turn to the communist heritage to find tools for changing reality, the analyst of Russian news agency Vestnik Kavkaza, Yevgeniya Svatukhina said in the National Question program on Vesti …
Human fossils, an amber room and a Raphael masterpiece all went missing during WWII
Archaeologists uncovered a heavily traversed glacial mountain pass in Lendbreen, Norway utilized by travelers throughout the Viking Age, littered with hundreds of artifacts presumed to have been used by Vikings during that time period, …
The Shroud of Turin is a 14-foot linen cloth bearing an image of a crucified man that has become a popular Catholic icon. For some, it is the authentic burial shroud of Jesus Christ. For others, it is a religious icon reflecting the story of …
Recently, historical reconstruction has become popular. In the previous century, the most famous became the September reconstruction of the Battle of Borodino. And in the early 2000s, Moscow decided to recreate the favorite fun of the Grand Duke …
In Western movies, Soviet soldiers-liberators are often presented in a negative light, that is far from reality, the analyst of Vestnik Kavkaza, Marina Lagutina said in the National Question program on Vesti FM. The …
The Victory Parade and the celebration of the 75th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War will be held for sure, the spokesperson for the President of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Peskov said in the Bolshaya Igra program on Channel …
Russia said on Friday it had opened a criminal investigation after Czech authorities dismantled the statue of a Soviet military commander last week despite Moscow’s protests, escalating a rancorous diplomatic row over the issue, Reuters …
Head of the National Culinary Association and the National Culinary Center about the tea culture
Watching today's outbreak of coronavirus, historians recall in 1830, when a cholera epidemic broke out in Moscow: the streets were empty, government offices, factories, educational institutions, theaters were closed. Quarantine was …
An objective study of the Soviet-Polish war of 1919-1921 is hindered by the fact that the attitude towards it in both countries began to change already during the conflict, the analyst of Vestnik Kavkaza news agency Matvey Katkov …
Today's attempts by Syrians fleeing the war to get into Greek territory reminded many of the events of the Second World War, when Greeks themselves followed the same route, only in the opposite direction. At that time, German and Italian …
Today, the Historian’s Day is celebrated around the world. On this day, congratulations are accepted by all those specialists whose activities are somehow related to the study and popularization of history. A historian is a specialist who …
A look at the connections between the two eras — and the fundamental differences as well
An international research team led by Dr Sebastian Kruss from the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the University of Göttingen has produced a new nanomaterial based on the Egyptian blue pigment, which is ideally suited for applications in …
New research finds soot from global fires ignited by an asteroid impact could have blocked sunlight long enough to drive the mass extinction that killed most life on Earth, including the dinosaurs, 66 million years ago. A new study in …
Famous researcher of the history of the Middle East, Philip Ekozyants who recently released first part of a large-scale study of documents about the life and work of one of the key figures of the "Armenian myth" - Israel Ori, who is …
The fighting at Orsha saw the first battlefield use of the Red Army’s experimental battery of BM-13 multiple-launch rocket systems. Later in the war, these fearsome weapons were lovingly nicknamed Katyusha (Little Kate) after a popular …
Member of the Council of the Russian Historical Society, President of the Russian State Humanitarian University, Chairman of the Board of the Russian Society of Historians of Archives, Member of the Board of the Russian Union of Rectors Efim …
