The great Russian Empire found itself in the vortex of the revolutionary abyss in only eight months. Pravda.Ru editor-in-chief Inna Novikova discussed the topic of the fall of the Russian Empire with Associate Professor at History Department of Moscow State University Fyodor Gaida. "Today, there are many people who believe that the tsarist regime fell only because German Emperor Wilhelm II sent Lenin to Russia with a suitcase full of money in a sealed train car. What led Russia to Emperor's abdication, and subsequently to the October Revolution?" "There is no documentary evidence to prove that Lenin was working to…

In 1395 the crusading propagandist Philippe de Mézières sent an eloquent plea for an Anglo-French crusade to Richard II of England. 'Remember', he wrote: ... that the Holy Catholic Faith, for which so many of your ancestors, the blessed kings of England suffered martyrdom, today in Jerusalem and Syria, Egypt and Turkey, and throughout the East, is trodden under foot, dishonoured, deserted and abandoned... and the divine sacrifice and Office forgotten and held in abomination... God grant that you two kings (Richard and Charles VI of France) may do all that remains to be done, to the consolation of all…

In the midst of its campaign against Hizbollah and Hamas "terrorists", Israel has been accused by Britain of feting Jewish "terrorists" whose bomb attack killed 28 Britons 60 years ago today. The accusation, which reopens the debate about the use of politically-inspired violence in the region, follows the unveiling of a plaque commemorating the attack on the King David hotel in Jerusalem on July 22, 1946, by the Irgun Jewish "resistance" to British mandate rule in Palestine. The 28 Britons were among 91 people killed. This week, former Irgun fighters and current Right-wing politicians unveiled the plaque at the hotel,…

  My name is Raaef Elwishee. I was born in Egypt and I have been an American citizen for a quarter of a century. I have three children born in America from an American wife. I have never hurt any body but I am a victim of the U.S government. Feb.10,05: I was tortured ( naked ) inside the presidential palace of the dictator Mubarak for doing nothing. That would not happen without a green light from the U.S. 12 days after  the barbaric torture, the U.S govt. cut my S.S. cheque to please the Egyptian dictator. Believe it or not,…

I went to Moscow as a correspondent in 1984, just as the Brezhnev generation of leaders was beginning to die off or be replaced. There was nothing to suggest that Soviet control of Eastern Europe had only another five years to run and that the Soviet Union itself would disintegrate a few years later. In retrospect, it might seem self-evident that by seeking to reform the centralised, militarised and authoritarian Soviet state, the General Secretary of the Communist Party (CPSU), Mikhail Gorbachev, was sawing through the branch on which he and the party were sitting. But it was not obvious…