I asked several young people about the revolution, how it all started. And their common opinion was that the dramatic turn in the Russian history happened in October 2017 when communists took power and overthrew the tzar governance. And I…
Month: February 2020
Sanctions on Russia : glimpse of history
Sanctions imposed on Russia for so called “breach of international traditions and aggressive actions against other state, who should be protected by the international community”. Sanctions include: – ban on delivery of weapons, military production and some kind of important…
Men’s Day
In late summer/ early spring we meet two holiday devoted to ALL of us (and all of you 🙂 but divided into two parts and separated by a fortnignt. The first one is coming toworrow February 23rd and devoted to…
War Hero Alexey Botjan
World War II is sinking deeper and deeper in history, and WAR HEROES are leaving us. Alexey Botjan, legendary War Hero, left us several days ago at the age of 103. Alexey Boltjan was a famous intelligence agent who leaded…
Coronavirus and National Character
Behavior of people in crisis reveals some features of national character. It was recently reported that a Russian lady who returned from China and was put under quarantine for 14 days escaped after 10 days. It was not a simple…
Praesentatio Domini
Yesterday we celebrated one of 12 main Orthodoxal Holidays. Praesentatio Domini On this day the parents of Jesus brought him to the Temple to fulfil the law of Moses on the 40-th day of his birth. At the Temple he…
Are we enemies?
Munich conference again. Here it all started, when in 2007 Putin put forward new vision of the reformatted Russia of her role in the world. He declared the end of one-polar world and the right of Russia for an independent…
Amendments to the Russian Constitution
Recently a campaign for amendments to the Russian constitution was launched by President Putin. On one hand I am quite OK with the current constitution. On the other hand, amendments suggested by Putin look quite reasonable: increase of the role…
My views
On this page you can find some of my views regarding events which I find important. Modern media capabilities can easily provide us with a lot of different information, anything about everything. Thus I do not intend to compete with…
Next Russian President
I will tell you the answer to the question: who is going to be the next Russian president? The answer is known to the most of Russians: the next president of Russia will be a Haired Man 🙂 Let’s have…