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Yeltsin’s double game source of conflict over NATO expansion

21 March 2023

British archives revealed that, in 1993, Russian President Boris Yeltsin repeatedly hinted to his Western interlocutors that, personally, he was not opposed to the accession of Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); statements that obviously (...)

New documents implicate Banderites

1 July 2022

The Russian security services (FSB) have declassified new documents that shed light on the Banderites during the interwar period.
One of them, published by the Extrême-Orient journal, reveals that. in 1939, the Ukrainian “nationalists” of Stepan Bandera contemplated leaving the territory of (...)

FSB declassifies documents on Latvian crimes during Third Reich

22 June 2022

The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) has declassified and published on its website the interrogation records of Latvian Nazi collaborators.
These revelations come as the actions of the Banderites in Ukraine are largely glossed over and as those of the Latvian (...)

Revelations on Israeli-Syrian negotiations

3 June 2022

Notes taken, on 9 June 1996, by American/Israeli diplomat Dore Gold, during the interview that took place in Washington between newly-elected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Bill Clinton, were released by the Israel State Archives.
Dore Gold’s notes shed light on (...)

British Archives: London was opposed to NATO enlargement

30 May 2022

A new document was recently extracted from British archives. It is dated 6 March 1991 and comes from a file on the negotiations between the United Kingdom, Germany and France. It slightly precedes the “Wolfowitz doctrine”, which marked the penetration of the Straussians into the upper echelons (...)

Eichmann’s hours-long interview partially unearthed

23 May 2022

The 11 May 1960 number of Life Magazine carried an article allegedly based on a 70-hour interview that SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann supposedly granted in Argentina to Dutch SS Willem Sassen. This interview ought not to have been released during Eichmann’s lifetime, but the temptation (...)

Vladimir Putin’s Speech at the Victory Parade

by Vladimir Putin

Moscow (Russia) | 9 May 2022

Fellow Russian citizens, Dear veterans, Comrade soldiers and seamen, sergeants and sergeant majors, midshipmen and warrant officers, Comrade officers, generals and admirals,
I congratulate you on the Day of Great Victory!
The defence of our Motherland when its destiny was at stake has (...)

Vladimir Putin’s telephone conversation with Naftali Bennett

Moscow (Russia) , Jaffa/Tel Aviv (Palestine/Israel) | 5 May 2022

MOSCOW: The President of Russia extended warm wishes to Naftali Bennett and the people of Israel on today’s national holiday – Independence Day. Vladimir Putin and Naftali Bennett expressed mutual interest in further developing friendly Russia-Israel relations and maintaining beneficial (...)

Declassification of documents exposing Banderite crimes

30 April 2022

The Russian government has declassified documents relating to the trials of banderites at the end of the Great Patriotic War (World War II).
These documents bring light to the atrocious war crimes perpetrated by the banderites against Ukrainian civilians, in 1944 and 1945, during the retreat (...)

Joe Biden pays tribute to victims of the Armenian genocide

by Joseph R. Biden Jr.

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 24 April 2021

Each year on this day, we remember the lives of all those who died in the Ottoman-era Armenian genocide and recommit ourselves to preventing such an atrocity from ever again occurring. Beginning on April 24, 1915, with the arrest of Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in (...)

“The art of war”

Thirty years ago, the Gulf War

by Manlio Dinucci

Rome (Italy) | 19 January 2021

For President George H. Bush, the aim of Operation Desert Storm was not so much to defeat Iraq as to establish a "New World Order", in agreement with the last President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev. It was about acknowledging the agony of the USSR and creating a world governed by the (...)

The other face of Winston Churchill

16 September 2020

Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War and leader of the Conservative opposition after the conflict, believed that the atomic bomb should be used against several cities in the USSR to intimidate the Kremlin and keep "communism" in check.
British (...)

The Real Lessons of the 75th Anniversary of World War II

by Vladimir Putin

Moscow (Russia) | 18 June 2020

Seventy-five years have passed since the end of the Great Patriotic War. Several generations have grown up over the years. The political map of the planet has changed. The Soviet Union that claimed an epic, crushing victory over Nazism and saved the entire world is gone. Besides, the events of (...)

Joint Statement on the 75th Anniversary of the end of the Second World War

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 7 May 2020

Joint statement by the U. S. Secretary of State and the Foreign Ministers of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia
Marking the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in 2020, we pay tribute to the victims and to all (...)

Russia sets record straight: Poland and German Reich planned deportation of Jews as early as 1938

25 December 2019

Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler and Polish Ambassador Józef Lipski (right in the photo).
Speaking to Russia’s top military officers on 24 December 2019, President Vladimir Putin said that he became acquainted with archival documents which were seized during the fall of Berlin in 1945.
They (...)

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