Teddy Rowe's notes are a unique historical document that allows you to see the Soviet Union through the eyes of an American. These are hundreds of pages of typewritten text that has never been published before, writes Present Tense. In April 1968, an American tourist, Teddy Rowe, flew to Moscow from Washington. ...
On January 31, 1990, the first McDonald's in the Soviet Union was opened in Moscow. The history of its discovery and the difficulties the owners had to overcome are described in the video of the "Present Time" publication. The franchise was brought to the USSR in 1990 by Canadians, not ...
Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Sergei Naryshkin named seven intelligence officers who for many years supplied Moscow with classified data, posing as the indigenous people of Europe, America and Asia. The official biographies of these people are extremely scarce. The BBC managed to collect ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed submitting amendments to the Constitution to a referendum. Changing the basic law is a popular initiative among post-Soviet leaders whose powers are expiring. The BBC writes about this. Russia is no exception: in 2008, the presidential term was increased to six...
To remember and feel a little nostalgic, the Lemurov.net edition has created a selection of the most delicious treats from childhood. This, by the way, applies not only to foreigners, but also to compatriots, who simply did not find real Soviet delicacies. Cockerels on a stick Yes, someone will say that this is the most ...
In the city of Vienne, Virginia, at the age of 73, former KGB major Viktor Sheimov, who in 1980 fled the USSR with the help of the CIA, died, writes News.ru. According to Olga Sheimova, her husband died on October 18 from complications due to ...
While the Soviet Union was catching up and surpassing America in heavy industry and rocketry, there was one industry in which the USSR was noticeably lagging behind - the automobile industry. And in order not to lag behind too much, the USSR often “copied” the models of its capitalist rivals, writes Current Time. "The Seagull" was...
The new film by the famous Polish director Agnieszka Holland, Mister Jones, tells the fascinating story of a British journalist’s struggle for the truth about the Holodomor. The BBC writes about this. The film and its hero In early March 1933, 27-year-old British journalist Gareth Jones went to...
In late September, in Brazil, a group of friends relaxing on the beach found a bottle with a message. As it turned out, it was a letter written by Soviet sailors. Writes about this Meduza. Paula Sousa, 22, a pharmaceutical student, saw her younger brother Vitor playing with a bottle, inside ...
Russians rate the Soviet government of the late 70s and early 80s higher than the current Russian government, according to a new Levada Center survey. As Current Time notes, the relative majority of respondents gave positive characteristics to the Soviet government during the “stagnation”: 30% called it close to the people,...