This Tuesday, the news was front page in newspapers around the worldwith headlines that spoke of “historical milestone” or “finding that will change the course of the planet.” The researchers of the Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryHowever, they knew that it was a matter of time before this “major scientific breakthrough” of producing unlimited energy from … Read more
– Advertising- I was lucky enough to be able to interview the recent Nobel Peace Prize 2022, President of the NGO Memorial that I present here. How has the world changed, especially Russia in these years? During perestroika, everyone had similar ideas. Glasnost brought freedom of expression and free thought and that was vital for … Read more
Teresa Gurza[1] I was starting this article and thinking where my taste for things Russian would come from and I remembered that I was about eight years old when, in one of the six volumes of the Children’s Golden Book, I saw illustrations of children from different countries dressed in national costumes. I was fascinated … Read more
Alexandra Ramos Moscow (CNN) Russians said goodbye to the last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, on Saturday at a funeral that was not attended by President Vladimir Putin. A public farewell ceremony for Gorbachev, who died this week at the age of 91, came to an end even though people were still waiting … Read more
2 hours Image source, Reuters Caption, Memorial supporters held signs that read “We Will Live Forever.” Russia’s Supreme Court ordered the closure of Memorial, the country’s oldest human rights group. The organization was able to recover the records of millions of people innocents who were executed, imprisoned or persecuted in the Soviet era. The organization … Read more
Ángel Rafael Martínez / On December 31, 1991, the world witnessed an unimaginable event. The era of the multinational state founded in 1922, by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov “Lenin”(1870-1924) and together with the Russian-Jewish ideologue Lev Trotsky (1879-1940), carried out the Russian Revolution in October 1917. Creating the first socialist state in the world. Under the … Read more