We hope that the reader and viewer will find this video clip interesting. It is the resignation speech given by President Boris Yeltsin on December 31, 1999, just before the New Year celebrations in Russia. It was at this time that the first elected president of the Russian Federation ceded his authority to a young […]
First of all, what follows is a reprint of a piece that appeared on 15 May, 2023 on RT.com (Russia Today). Russia Today has largely been cut off from at least “convenient” access in the West, by means of real internet blocks in some cases and the extremely successful propaganda war carried out by the […]
What follows is a full transcript of the speech made by Russian President Vladimir V. Putin commemorating the seventy-eighth anniversary of the surrender of Germany to the Allied forces on May 8 / 9, 1945. A bit of trivia: Why does Russia celebrate Victory in Europe (V-E) Day on May 9th, when the rest of […]
It might seem that with American political rancor against Russia at quite a high level, that the Russian Federation and the United States are absolutely not in cooperation with one another. However, there are several interesting developments that show that quite the opposite is true – Where possible, Russians and Americans are not only cooperating, […]
Some interesting headlines showed up in my Yandex news feed this morning. This is the news, run through Google Translate, so the translation may read in a rather amusing manner: Zelensky considers Canada’s decision on a turbine for Gazprom a dangerous concession Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called Canada’s decision to return a repaired turbine for […]
Redacted hit a complete home run with this piece. It is very important for everyone following this conflict to understand what the “special military operation” is about, and what the West’s cheerleading a nation to death (literally) is also about. Let’s start with Russia, since Russia is always getting called the quintessential “bad guy” in […]
Today’s “new” news in Russia is the commentary about how the West did not heed President Vladimir Putin’s speech in 2007 in Munich. Izvestia reported today, May 14th, that The Hill an American political news website, notes very specifically that the West appears not to have heeded President Vladimir Putin’s speech in 2007, and instead, ignored his […]
There are not too many cool heads in Congress in the United States these days. Nor are there cool heads in the US’ news media outlets, for the most part. The American people are steeped in a diet of “Ukraine is always good, Russia and Putin are always bad.” This narrative is so well-developed in […]
Dr. Steve Turley reports on how Biden the Imposter just helped Vladimir Putin become the guardian of the planet. It was pretty simple, actually. First, Biden’s controllers installed this hapless old man and created a real live puppet in the White House. Second, Biden the Imposter came up with how to remove US forces from […]
COTEL joins me to cover Lossky’s classic book introducing Orthodox theology. We cover the first half of the book highlighting the contrast with western trends and note how Lossky in accord with Fr Staniloae, Meyendorff, Fr Florovksy and Larchet, being faithful to St. Gregory Palamas and the Pillars of Orthodoxy. We cover the logoi and the imossibility of melding Palamas with Aquinas. His channel is here.
