Adventurous policy in the Far East, the catastrophe of the Russo-Japanese War, the inglorious death of the First and Second Russian squadrons...

After Operation Ripper concluded, it was time for Marshal Peng Dehuai to march. On April 22, 1951, the Chinese and Korean forces launched a counteroffensive. During the counteroffensive, creative use was made of...

For hundreds of years, our implacable adversaries (mainly the "West") have been waging a hybrid war against our state, in which the most important weapon is the fight against the history of Rus', creating a threat...

Translation of the article published in the Encyclopedia Britannica, with comments from the translator......

For a teenager kidnapped from Orel or Vitebsk, May 1945 was not the end of the war, but the beginning of a second displacement—a slow, bureaucratically organized journey home that, for some, took...

June 6, 1941. An order that preemptively exempted an entire category of prisoners from the protection of international law and simultaneously absolved those responsible for its violations....

Negotiations between the two sides in the conflict began in Kaesong on July 8, 1951. However, the delegations' slumping at the table did not automatically mean an end to hostilities...

The beginning of Nicholas II's reign, the incompetent relatives of the last emperor. A tragicomic incident in Japan. The Pacific Fleet...

In July 2002, a conflict erupted between Spain and Morocco over the ownership of the tiny island of Perejil, which nearly led to war.

In Russia, May 7 is Radio Day, and April 15 is Electronic Warfare Specialist Day, in honor of the events when Russian engineer and scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov first...

Ninety years ago, Italian fascists crushed the resistance of the Ethiopian army and occupied Addis Ababa. Italy annexed Ethiopia, incorporating it into Italian East Africa.

On April 23, 1906, Nicholas II signed a document known as the first Russian constitution. The signature was placed four days before the opening of the Duma, so that the deputies would have the rules of the game ready.

So, in 1768, the French were determined to prevent the Russian Empire from winning the war against the Turks...

In 1900, the third German Chancellor, Hohenlohe, resigned and was replaced by the Anglophile Bülow, who was supposed to secure Great Britain's accession to the Triple Alliance. What came of this was...

How the US fabricated the mass murder of prisoners of war to disrupt the armistice and prolong the Korean War. The history of the United States is inextricably linked not only with the organization of wars, but also with...

For many years, a myth persisted in the military history of the city of Ruza (Moscow Region) that during the defense of Moscow on October 25, 1941, Soviet troops surrendered the city to the Germans without a fight. It was only in the 21st century that this myth was dispelled.

A translation of an article published in The New York Times, with commentary from the translator...

The Crimean War: the tragedy of the Black Sea Fleet, the failures of Russia's adversaries on other fronts, and attempts to revive the navy under Alexander II and Alexander III...

Ukrainian ideologists are cynically brainwashing their compatriots, turning part of the Russian world into an anti-Russian battering ram used by Western masters to solve the "Russian question."

The peak of success during the reign of Paul I. Gradual decline under Alexander I. Foreigners on the Russian fleet on the eve of the Crimean War....

The essay recounts an unusual episode of the Great Patriotic War—the raising of the Red Banner over Vienna in April 1945.

The General Vatutin's explosion created a wave of ice-filled water up to 10 meters high, with burning shipwrecks and huge chunks of ice literally engulfing the Nagaevsky port. Fires broke out...

Over the course of a year and a half, Germany installed four regimes at the helm of its allied territories. All four imitated statehood in different ways – and all four ended with death sentences and firing squads.

In the skies over Korea, "UN forces" had long enjoyed air superiority. April 12, 1951, American air power's "Black Thursday," revealed that this was not complete. MiG-15s changed the balance of power in the skies over the peninsula.