Perhaps, more books and articles have been written about Khmelnitsky than about all the other hetmans taken together, but almost all historians concern only the last years of his life. The reason for such inattention to ...

On November 5, the Georgian Interior Ministry reported that 13 had been detained and accused of spying for Russia. Four of them are citizens of the Russian Federation, the rest have Georgian passports. It is noteworthy that ...

In addition to inefficient aviation, the only way to evacuate people from besieged Leningrad, as well as to deliver food and military supplies back to the city in September-November 1941, was ...

For quite some time now, Ukrainian nationalists are raising Ivan Mazepa on the shield. On the national currency of an independent Ukraine, his portrait adorns a ten-hryvnia banknote. According to the official story that ...

Chernobyl today! An amazing film from “Animal Planet” and “Off the Fence” about how nature heals the wounds caused by the disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, how animals populate cities and villages in a hurry ...

"HAARP" stands for "Aurora High Frequency Active Research Project." The name of this American project camouflages the fact that it has the potential to become bigger ...

October 5 1933 was an unusually large number of Russian military émigrés in the French resort of Cannes. They came here to the funeral of the last really great commander of the Russian Empire, ...

In the 1975, the Soviet Army adopted a special underwater submachine gun (APS - 5) and an underwater pistol (SPP). Until now, these samples are included in the arsenal of combat swimmers' units ...

Exactly 111 years ago, the legendary cruiser Varyag was launched. He became a real symbol of valor for Russian sailors. The cruiser "Varyag" and the gunboat "Koreyets" showed the whole world that ...

1 November, 1578 was born to one of the greatest sons of Russia - Prince Dmitry Pozharsky. By its origin, he was a descendant of Rurik, who settled in the Suzdal land (a kind of princes ...

Modification "F" was the peak of the development of the aircraft Bf 109 and one of the best fighters of the Second World War. Nevertheless, the improvement of the design was continued in the direction of increasing the height and ...

When elite German divisions invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, a Nazi victory seemed inevitable. On the approaches to Moscow, German troops were stopped. So the myth was dispelled ...

85 years ago, Mikhail Frunze died on the operating table. Disputes about whether the famous military leader was stabbed to death by doctors or whether he died in an accident have not subsided to this day. Mother...

Recently there has been a lot of talk about short-barreled weapons. Someone is not satisfied with the fact that in modern Russian Army there are few new samples, someone scolds old samples for their ...

Why hasn't a TV show been broadcasted with sharp criticism of Defense Minister Serdyukov? So far, the passion around the incident connected with the recent visit of Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov has not abated ...

The life of this person is divided into three parts. The first is from birth to imprisonment for anarchist activities, the second is four years of continuous battles, hikes and treatments from numerous ...

"War is a man's business." However, in the twentieth century, the participation of women in war, and not only as medical personnel, but also with weapons in hand, becomes a reality. Especially massive ...

The operational-tactical missile system (OTRK) "Iskander" ("Iskander-E" - export, "Iskander-M" - for the Russian army) was created in the context of the Treaty on ...

With the growth of the power of anti-tank weapons (PTS), it became clear that using passive methods to ensure the protection of armored vehicles is almost impossible. Therefore, for this purpose it is necessary to use external ...

The invisibility of aircraft has become a consequence of technological progress. Firstly, progress in the field of aircraft construction, and secondly, progress in the field of aircraft destruction. For the United States, stealth aircraft ...

Topol-M is the result of further modification of the Topol complex and is equipped with the more advanced RS-2PM2 missile. Due to the restrictions imposed on modernization ...

... Wheels were spinning wildly. The pilot cautiously pulled the levers - on each disk, from the side, the casing slowly crawled, and the device, similar to an overturned plate, started, and smoothly went up. No screws ...

The film is dedicated to the outstanding designer of small arms and guided weapons Academician Arkady G. Shipunov. In 50, Shipunov, his friend and comrade Viktor Gryazev developed a fundamentally ...

The general public knows very little about the events of November 8-9, 1975 on the large anti-submarine ship (BOD) "Sentinel". The Brezhnev government cowardly hid the political from the people ...