C'mere. Siddown.  I've got something to say. One person has accused me of siding with Putin.  And that's one person too many. T...

And I mean I watched the entire  meeting, not just the final ten minutes that descended into diplomatic chaos. ( Here it is if you want to s...

Russia's invasion of Ukraine may go down as the textbook example of all the wrong ways to try to take over a neighboring country.  I...

Wow.  Day twenty of writing a new blog post each day during Lent.  I'm starting to believe that I can actually pull off this thing. Yest...

Oleksii Kyrychenko of Kiev, Ukraine took this photo of his nine-year old daughter.  He titled it "Girl with Candy": A few days bef...

 It would not be at all surprising if Vladimir Putin was out of power in Russia by Easter. And, word on the street is that his country is go...

Of all the photos that have come out of Ukraine in the past two weeks, it's the one most heart-wrenching to me.  The photo that says it ...

The Russian people did not wake up pokey one morning last week and decide to invade Ukraine.  Neither did the Russian people occupy Poland a...

Vladimir Putin may have come from the KGB.  But there arguably exists aspirations which are far away and removed from anything the Soviet Un...

It's stuff like this that reminds me of something: we're not all that different from people a century ago.  Far longer than that e...

CNN and Fox News are proving they're worse than useless this morning when it comes to breaking news! The "big story" in the U...

From the land Down Under, The Age has the following very strange story of historical revisionism and giant robots . From the article... VCE...

In 1917 Russia, the revolution to overthrow the government was started by the Bolsheviks. In 2012 Russia, the revolution to overthrow the ...

Working on a few things behind the scenes, but felt like posting something tonight. And that's when I discovered that YouTube is hostin...

Longtime readers of this blog know that one bit of history that I'm particularly fond of is Russian space exploration. Say what one mig...

'Tis painfully ironic that these observations are being made in Pravda , of all places. Stanislav Mishin writes... It can be safely sai...

Fear not! The aliens aren't coming (yet anyway) but this luminous halo over western Moscow a few days ago has sparked worldwide curios...

In April of 1945, during the final days of the European theater and with the approaching rumble of Soviet tanks heralding the collapse of hi...

Early on the morning of September 1st, 1939, a squadron of Nazi German Luftwaffe attacked the Polish town of Wieluń. More than twelve hund...

"In Russia we drink YOUR milkshake comrade!" That's the speculation from Investor's Business Daily . In recent days it ha...