Bob Hoover, an American aviation legend and one of America's most celebrated veterans, died on October 25, 2016 at the age of 94. During his career, he managed to escape from captivity in a plane stolen from the Nazis, worked as a tester of supersonic airliners...
Today is the Day of Remembrance of Political Repression. There is a lot of talk in Moscow about victims and executioners. The Jews were both, and the executioners themselves often ended up in their own meat grinder. Here I am looking at a document that is 75 years old - from 13...
Yana Aliyeva, a 34-year-old marketer from Kiev, first saw the face of her great-grandfather Vasily Khoroshko in a Soviet-era criminal case. Now that the SBU has opened access to many documents of the NKVD and the KGB, she has her own photo from the case on ...
Oleg Kalugin is a former head of foreign intelligence, the youngest general in the KGB. In the United States, he worked under the guise of a Fulbright fellow, an American correspondent for Moscow Radio, and a press attaché for the Soviet embassy in Washington. At the same time, he supplied information to the KGB and recruited new agents. ...
Vladimir Putin and other top Russian government officials have been “diagnosed with the gait of a Wild West gunslinger,” The Times writes, citing a scientific article. “It's included in the British Medical Journal's Christmas issue, which highlights research on 'weird and funny topics' that...
“Today Russia has more flexible, multifaceted and large-scale relations with the outside world [compared to Soviet times]. It has contracts with Western companies worth many billions of dollars. It is highly dependent on the international market. Its citizens travel by the millions...
On the official website of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Resistance "KGB Activities", the case of Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite has appeared in the list of agents. This was discovered by the Lithuanian media themselves, who asked the institution with a question. “The Center for the Study of Genocide and Resistance of the People of Lithuania informs that ...