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German reunification: a cause for celebration and its sad aftermath

11:06 10.10.2025 Pyotr Zhuravlev

German reunification: a cause for celebration and its sad aftermath

On October 3, 1990, Germany was reunified. As is well known, after its defeat in World War II, Germany was divided into zones of occupation by Allied forces. Subsequently, two states emerged - the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). The 1990 reunification …

False arguments against Budapest

12:35 27.08.2025 Gyorgy Varga

False arguments against Budapest

The collective West never tires of recalling the 1994 Budapest Memorandum (1994) as a failed security assurance and an example of Russia's aggressive foreign policy and disregard for international guarantees, provided to Ukraine. In his August 20 post on the "X" platform, Polish Prime Minister Tusk spoke out against holding …

Gold repatriation. Mission impossible?

14:01 23.06.2025 Pyotr Zhuravlev

Gold repatriation. Mission impossible?

Germany and Italy are being urged to move $245 billion worth of US gold reserves to Europe amid "geopolitical instability" and President Donald Trump's criticism of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, the Financial Times reports. In connection with Trump's unpredictable policy, calls for gold export have become more frequent in …

Unknown Qatar on View at the Russian Museum of Ethnography

11:08 16.06.2021 Elena Rubinova

Unknown Qatar on View at the Russian Museum of Ethnography

Photo:https://vk.com/ethnomuseumThe exhibition «Qatar Between Land and Sea. Through Arts and Heritage» opened on June 5 at the Russian Museum of Ethnography located in the very center of Saint Petersburg. One of the oldest ethnographic museums in the country became the main platform for international cultural dialogue. The exhibition was the …

YALTA 1945: A. A. Gromyko concerning reparations in favor of the USSR

11:35 18.03.2021

YALTA 1945: A. A. Gromyko concerning reparations in favor of the USSR

"Three historical personalities - Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill - together they had then colossal power and enormous influence. How much more could have been solved if they had then reached the necessary consent degree on all matters, and if justice had completely triumphed!", - A. A. Gromyko, the Yalta Conference …

Nanjing tragedy – massacre or “incident”?

11:37 20.01.2021 Oleg Paramonov

Nanjing tragedy – massacre or “incident”?

On December 15, China was marking the 80thanniversary of the Nanjing massacre by Japanese troops.In Japan, they avoid using the term “massacre,” however, so when covering the tragic event the local media referred to it as the “Nanjing incident." [1]In December 1937, at the height of the second Sino-Japanese war, …

Vlasovites: Russian collaborationists against Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt and Jews

9:41 03.05.2020 Vladimir Kruzhkov

Vlasovites: Russian collaborationists against Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt and Jews

Plans to erect a monument in Prague to Nazi collaborationists from the army of the ill-famed General Andrey Vlasov quickly found itself in the focus of attention by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, financed by the US Congress, and which has in recent months been trying hard to rehabilitate the Vlasov …

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