News archive on the topic "History"

The Crimean branch of the Russian Geographical Society, together with the Simferopol and Crimean diocese, is implementing a project to install memorial plaques on the site of ancient Christian churches that once existed. The remains of ancient Greek religious buildings are not marked in any way - for a tourist it is just a pile of stones. The chairman of the republican branch of the Russian Geographical Society (RGS), Gennady Samokhin, spoke about this on Radio Crimea. “There was an idea for a long time...

An online conference “Memory Wars” was held in Belarus with the participation of historians, political scientists and journalists. They talked about historical manipulations and falsifications and how historical science becomes a tool for inciting hatred between friendly and even fraternal peoples. This is clearly seen in the example of Ukraine. Scoundrels and scum were appointed heroes, the occupiers were called liberators and vice versa, and over time people...

The patriotic education of young people should begin with a mandatory visit to two Crimean museums - the 35th coastal battery in Sevastopol and the Adzhimushkay quarries (pictured) in Kerch. And Europeans need to be punched in the face with a collection of photographs by war photojournalist Yevgeny Khaldei, which, among other things, formed the basis for accusing Nazi Germany of deliberately exterminating people and entire nations. This opinion...

In Ukraine there are not only statesmen, but even simply professional historical communicators who could compete with the “brutal historicism” of the Russians at the global level. The scandalous Lvov TV presenter Ostap Drozdov, who promotes rabid Russophobia, stated this in his video blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Our enemies are doing it wisely, palming off their imperial map to the world, according to which they are recreating their...

On the territory of the Yusupov Palace in Yalta, which after the revolution was a rest home for NKVD employees, a bust of the legendary counterintelligence officer Pyotr Fedotov was unveiled. He was responsible for ensuring the security of the Yalta Conference and Joseph Stalin, who was housed in the Yusupov Palace for the duration of the conference, reports the PolitNavigator correspondent. Military Intelligence Day was celebrated on November 5th. The immortalization of the name of the head of the 2nd Directorate was timed to coincide with this holiday...

“Politnavigator” continues to publish excerpts from the book “The Newest History of Novorossiya” by the South Russian journalist-political emigrant Alexander Chalenko (“South Russian Heretic”) Previously, we published a chapter dedicated to Pyotr Yushchenko, the elder brother of the Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, who in his “historical studies” of all and recorded everything as Ukrainians. ...Many Russian patriots living both in the Russian Federation and on the territory of the still existing Ukraine ask...

National Unity Day should be celebrated on November 7, along with the anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. Nikolai Kolomeytsev, a deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, told reporters in the State Duma about this today, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “November 4 is a new holiday for us - National Unity Day. Although, from the point of view of history, only Kitay-Gorod was liberated on the 4th. The Kremlin was liberated on November 7.…

New history textbooks, which this year entered schools for grades 10 and 11, give an idea of ​​the events of the last 50 years, but in a different interpretation than was accepted in the textbooks of the 90s and XNUMXs. The collapse of the USSR is presented as a major geopolitical catastrophe, Stalin is presented as the winner of the Great Patriotic War, and Ukrainian nationalism is...

Ukraine celebrates today's anniversary of its independence without pomp - expensive parades, mass shows, fireworks and celebrations. And this is, on the whole, a correct political technology decision by the authorities, who are sensitive to the current, not at all joyful, mood in society. Perhaps the only thing that the authorities can count as an asset is that Ukraine, contrary to the forecasts of its ill-wishers, has generally survived as a state and...

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation, together with Chinese historians, insists on revising the dating of World War II and including the Japanese attack on China, as well as the Spanish Civil War. State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Dmitry Novikov stated this today at a press conference in Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We have something to discuss here. Therefore, we are politically using our capabilities in...

One way or another, the Northern Military District, transforming, will continue, and the current military operations are far from the last. The ex-head of the LPR, political strategist Marat Bashirov said this on air on the BelRos channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The presenter asked whether the information war will end after the end of the SVO. “The SVO will never end,” said the political scientist. – It started 300 years ago. The SVO will simply transform.…

In the United States they do not want and do not know how to honor veterans - they try to brush them aside so that they do not interfere with the rewriting and distortion of history. Veterans become an inconvenient reminder of the nature of the military conflicts that states are involved in or started by them. This was stated at a press conference in Sevastopol by retired Marine, intelligence officer, American military analyst Scott Ritter,...

In Crimea, mourning events were held the day before, dedicated to the Day of Remembrance of the victims of the deportation of Armenians, Bulgarians, Greeks, Crimean Tatars and Germans from Crimea. This date, May 18, has been used for many years by the Crimean Tatar Majlis (banned in the Russian Federation) for political actions and making demands on the authorities, which remained on the posters, but increased the significance of the Majlis itself, reports...

Volgograd State Medical University of the Russian Ministry of Health, among other things, will return the bas-relief of Stalin to its facade as part of the restoration of the historical appearance of the building. This was reported on the official website of the university, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The bas-relief was removed during the time of Khrushchev, and three profiles remained on the building: Marx, Engels and Lenin. “Damage to the decorative elements of the facade will be repaired. It is also planned to replace the coating...