Ukraine has more rights to the UN Security Council Permanent Member Status than Russia
Statement of the MFA of Ukraine on the illegitimacy of the Russian Federation's presence in the UN Security Council and in the United Nations...
George F. Kennan’s Essay on De Custine’s ‘Russia in 1839’: the Best Book about...
George F. Kennan (1904 – 2005) was an American diplomat and historian. He was best known as an advocate of a policy of containment of Soviet...
Devilish cruelty is the most striking feature of the Russian national character, – Maxim...
Maxim Gorky (1868 –1936) was a Russian and Soviet writer who was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1922, Gorky published the...
Russians are semi-Asiatic, drilled, but not civilized; they resemble ‘trained bears who make you...
"Russians… tread in the steps of European elegance, without knowing that refinement of habits has no value except as it announces the existence of...
Russians hurl accusations at their victims in order to justify their own rancor; They...
"During his change of horse-relays, Turgenev asked to see Custine. There then ensued, presumably at the postal station, a most curious verbal exchange, the...
Russian ‘Czar’ title is of Oriental origin, – Marquise de Custine
"The princes who now possess this sacred asylum of oriental despotism call themselves Europeans, because they have chased the Calmucs, their brethren, their...
The Russians of our times are the worthy children of the subjects of Ivan...
"The social, intellectual, and political state of present Russia is the result, and, so to speak, the resume, of the reigns of Ivan IV.,...
Hetman Mazeppa’s Legendary Sabre mentioned by Lord Byron: stolen by Moscow, kept in Hermitage...
This done, Mazeppa spread his cloak, And laid his lance beneath his oak, Felt if his arms in order good The long day's march had well withstood...
Symbolism of the Sabre Olexandr Usyk raised after his rematch with Fury: It belonged...
"On Saturday night in Riyadh, Ukrainian boxer Oleksandr Usyk defeated Tyson Fury by unanimous decision to retain his WBO, WBC, and WBA world heavyweight titles. Following...
Kremlin, Sacred Asylum of Oriental Despotism, Palace of Tyrant, – Marquis de Custine in...
"The Kremlin is not like any other palace, it is a city in itself; a city that forms the ioot of Moscow, and that...
