Daniel Johnson

Even the closest relatives of Boris Yeltsin, at least during the life of the President, very little was known. Perhaps this fact is explained by the fact that Yeltsin, according to Alexander Khinshtein, was not at all peculiar sense of kinship. And Yeltsin's security chief Alexander Korzhakov claimed that the younger brother of the head of the country he never saw.

It is no secret that one of the important instruments of war is propaganda. Thousands of leaflets that showered each other the warring parties during the First and Second world wars, the glorification of his victories and an outright exaggeration of losses of the enemies, the stories of inhuman cruelty (albeit having under itself a certain basis) of the enemy – all these methods were actively used during all conflicts of the twentieth century. But the level of true art fakes built them, perhaps British.

The beginner "Spartaka" Alexander Sobolev has joined the team at the training camp in Qatar, where the "red-white" are preparing for the resumption of the season, and held the first training session for the Moscow team.

On the Eastern front during the Second world war killed millions of German soldiers and officers. Some of them are buried in military cemeteries, the remains of the others to date are search engines. On the website of "the National Union of Germany on care of military burial places" ("Volksbund") listed 185 cemeteries in Russia. They buried not only those killed in the war, but prisoners of war. In total, according to the foreign Ministry of Russia on the territory of the former USSR there are 1722 German military cemetery. Next to the Germans are their allies – the Italians, Hungarians, Spaniards.

Submachine gun MP-38 in the beginning of the Second world war was in the Wehrmacht. Sometimes you can find the information according to which such "trunks" and armed units of the red army: if the Soviet Union acquired a rather large shipment of MP-38 Germany. Is it really so?

The crash of the Tu-134, which occurred on 20 September 1986, is unique in the country's history and probably in the world. So monstrous and foolish was the death of 70 passengers, among whom were 14 children. And to blame the banal boredom, irresponsible captain Alexander Klyuev and disregard for the rules of safety.[C-BLOCK]

"Patriarch of the Soviet Prosecutor's office" – so spoke with respect about Roman Andreevich Rudenko colleagues and students. However, this extraordinary man is known not only for his professional work at the Nuremberg trials, but also participation in mass repression. And the suppression of the Vorkuta uprising, the General Prosecutor of the USSR has committed a murder which has not incurred any liability.

The international chess Federation has published an updated version of the female supplier. The best Russian Aleksandra goryachkina, having 2579 points, remained on the fourth line.

Between the Russian and American airborne the difference is significant. It is observed in everything from the concept of the use of weapons and physical standards and characteristics of landing.

The other day the Russian foreign Ministry condemned the plans of the authorities of Prague to perpetuate the memory of Russian General-collaborator Andrei Vlasov. Meanwhile, the first monument to the Soviet military commander, promoted to the service of the Germans, in 1967, was installed in the United States. The authorities of the country-ally of the USSR anti-Hitler coalition is not only authorized the erection of a monument, but, according to some, has financed it.