The full-scale war in Ukraine entered its 1,418th day on Jan. 11, matching the length of Nazi Germany's fight against the Soviet Union during World War II. Russia has "repeated almost all the worst things that happened in the 20th century,

Vladimir Mitrokhin’s amazing story is the subject of a new book, ‘The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB.’

New remembrance day created by the Kremlin omits any mention of Jewish Holocaust victims, despite falling on the same date as the start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising The post Russia accused of Holocaust distortion over ‘Genocide of the Soviet People’ memorial day appeared first on The Times of Israel.

pt. I. The tsarist period. 1. Russian science before 1800. 2. Science in nineteenth-century Russia. 3. Russian intellectuals and Darwinism -- pt. II. Russian science and a Marxist revolution. 4. The Russian Revolution and the scientific community.

But in the Soviet Era, beginning in 1952, Vladivostok was a closed military city, and the only people allowed in and out were those with special permission. After the city reopened on Jan. 1, 1992, Father Effing was able to celebrate Mass at the Vladivostok church for the first time in nearly 70 years — on the church’s front steps, in biting cold.

At first Russia downplayed the impact of the sanctions and turned its economy into wartime mode. Sensitive to civilian attitudes towards the war, the government sought to keep the stores full and the consumer prices affordable.