Medvedev: Soviet-era terror cannot be justified

President Dmitry Medvedev told Russians Friday that there can be no justification for the Soviet government's crimes against its own people, lamenting millions of deaths and "maimed destinies" in some of the strongest criticism of the Communist era to come from the Kremlin since Vladimir Putin came to power a decade ago.

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Unraveling Russia’s moon riddles

- My first face-to-face meeting with the Soviet "moonsuit," built for a cosmonaut to wear while walking on the moon before Neil Armstrong, was in a dingy warehouse in an even dingier Upper East Side corner of Manhattan.

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Baltic Sea divers find wreck of Soviet submarine

After a decade-long search, a team of Baltic Sea divers has discovered the wreckage of a Soviet submarine that sank with dozens of sailors aboard during World War II, one of the divers said Tuesday.

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EU leaders reach out to ex-Soviet neighbors

European Union leaders on Friday are expected to promise a hefty program of aid, trade and closer political ties for six ex-Soviet states where Moscow retains a strong influence nearly two decades after they won their independence.

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Russia hosts ex-Soviet security summit

Russia sought to bolster its security alliance with six other ex-Soviet nations Wednesday by forming a joint rapid reaction force in a continuing effort to curb U.S. influence in energy-rich Central Asia.

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Tiny province longs for Mother Russia's embrace

In a softly lit room, giggly teenagers rise from their desks and sing a hymn. Then the leader of the youth group starts a detailed reading of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's state of the nation address.

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Iconic WWII photo honored at Berlin exhibit

It's an iconic image of World War II: Berlin has fallen and Soviet soldiers are hoisting the red flag over the Reichstag.

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Despite guidelines, assigning Net domain names is tricky

Argentina's Web sites end in ".ar," while Germany gets ".de" — for Deutschland, as the country is known in German.

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Germans Who Died at Soviet Camp Recalled

Researchers at the former Nazi Sachsenhausen concentration camp have finished compiling a list of nearly 12,000 Germans who died there during its use as an internment camp by the Soviets after World War II.

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Poland to Honor 1940 Katyn Forest Dead

Parliament on Wednesday established an annual day of remembrance for more than 14,000 Polish officers who were captured at the start of World War II and killed by Soviet secret police in the Katyn forest.

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Poles Promote Officers Murdered in 1940

Poland began a two-day ceremony Friday to mark a bitter moment in its past, giving posthumous promotions to 14,000 Polish officers who were captured early in World War II and then murdered by the Soviet secret police.

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The Antonov A-40 Krylya Tanka was a Soviet attempt to allow a tank to glide into a battlefield after being towed aloft by an airplane, to support airborne forces or partisans. A prototype was built and tested in 1942, but was found to be unworkable. This vehicle is

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Recently the monthly Herald published the results of an elaborate survey that it undertook to determine the extent of anti-Americanism in Pakistan. The findings suggest nothing that we do not already know. The percentages in this case hold only an academic interest.

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The number of children around the world living without any parents or separated from their families has increased to 24 million with a third of them placed in orphanages, a leading British charity dealing with children's rights has warned.

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I wish I'd posted this the day before yesterday - on World Freedom Day... Americans for Tax Reform is an organization that has been especially successful, in promoting the Reagan Legacy. Please check out this link, from ATR. Celebrate VICTORY over communism!!

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"Our soldiers are not to blame. They've fought incredibly bravely in adverse conditions.

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The comparison between Gorbachev and Obama is apt on few levels. The chief difference is between the U.S.

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15 February was a historic day, a day which was as bright and sunny for the Afghans as it was dim and gloomy for the Russians.

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Matt Frei, US correspondent for the BBC, in his diary or blog, talks about the conundrum and responsibility hanging over the US on Afghanistan and the shifting focus and perceptions.

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WASHINGTON: Sounding a note of caution, Islamabad's envoy to Washington has said the United States suffered serious consequences as a result of walking away from Afghanistan and Pakistan after the Soviet pullout in 1989 and urged that the mistake should not be repeated.

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Russia is comparatively quite hostile for many racial minorities. There was an earlier very grim report by the Moscow Protestant Chaplaincy that concluded that at least 60% of African immigrants in Russia, had been physically assaulted.

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Here is a 6 minute clip showing many ufo photos and footage. Many are without explanation but it's definately worth a view. Cheers, Lenny.

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With 800 sightings reported between 1993 and 1996 it's reasonable to conclude that many of these have rational explanations (I'm not the type who believes that all reports are evidence).

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I don't know what to think of these pics. They look strange but maybe they are experimental aircraft created by the powers that be. However, an interesting watch.

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UFOs over the Northern Territory...these things certainly get around! With so many reports coming from so many places and people we have to acknowledge that something is going on.

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Many of the Obama administration's biggest guns have been sent to the Mideast in an all-out effort to get America's squabbling allies to accept a comprehensive regional peace deal.

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Even a Soviet cosmonaut has come forward claiming that aliens and UFOs are real. "Grechko has gone on record stating that he believes that UFO visitation is real and that aliens have in fact been visiting earth for thousands of years."

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While Pakistan's decision makers squabble over whether to go ahead and implement the 2008 decision of buying German submarines or alter course and seek more French subs instead, India has put its prototype nuclear powered submarine, INS Arihant, into the waters.

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Republicans: Deja vu?

The recent election in Iran has raised eyebrows within both the Democratic and Republican parties.

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Obama Holocaust Denial in Buchenwald & Cairo Speeches

Obama's speech at Buchenwald ignored non-Jewish victims. The "annual death rate" of US-occupied Afghan infants (7.0%) is between that of Buchenwald inmates (2.9%) and WW2 Australian POWs of the Japanese (10.1%).

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned the West on Sunday not to meddle in relations between Russia and Ukraine, according to remarks cited by state-run news agencies.

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In this 1984 interview with KGB propagandist Yuri Bezmenov where he discusses the ideological subversion of America and its eventual takeover by a benevolent dictator... "like Walter Mondale." Amazing video because virtually everything he talks about has come to fruition.

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Growing Western concerns about a resurgent Russia have some experts asking how the West lost Russia as an unquestionably pro-Western partner.

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Brace yourself for what I'm about to say next. Last fall, prior to the presidential election, a friend of mine... sent me an e-mail on which I didn't report. It just seemed too extreme.

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Kyrgyzstan began moves on Wednesday to close a U.S. military air base in the former Soviet republic which is vital for supplying U.S.-led troops fighting in Afghanistan.

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Now, a new book says Moscow acquired the secret of the hydrogen bomb not from its own scientists but from an atomic spy at the Los Alamos weapons lab in New Mexico. More Articles

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