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ARTICLE 1: "Russian military launches missile attack on Wagner PMC camps - Prigozhyn. VIDEO" Censor.NET 23.06.23 21:53 https://censor.net/en/v3426631 Russian Armed Forces launch a missile attack on rear units of Wagner PMC: hundreds of people are killed in attack, social media reports. The corresponding video was published on the Butusov PLUS Telegram channel, VIDEO LINK: https://storage2.censor.net/video/3/230623_hdt.mp4 "A huge number of our fighters were killed. We will decide how to respond. The next step is ours," said Yevhen Prigozhin, head of the private military company Wagner. The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that all the videos of the alleged shelling of Wagner's...

The Free Russia Legion, made up of Russians fighting on the side of the Ukrainian Army, has crossed into Russia in the Belgorod region and has taken control of three settlements Kozinka, Glotove, Gora-Podil Heavy fighting is taking place for control of Greyvoron.

For the first time ever, the Russian State Duma honored the martyred Tsar Nicholas II and all the victims of the civil war with a minute of silence during its plenary session yesterday, the 101st anniversary of the martyrdom of the Royal Family. “Today we propose to honor the memory of the last Russian tsar, to honor the memory of those innocently killed—all who died in the crucible of the civil war,” Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin tld his colleagues, who, hearing such words, rose from their seats, reports TASS. The motion to honor the Tsar was raised by the head...

I recently read the new biography of Trotsky by Oxford don Robert Service, published in 2009 by Pan Books. It is well-written and surprisingly interesting. The book does a great public service in describing the life of the actual Trotsky, whose previous “biographies” were little more than hagiographies written by his toady worshippers (people like Isaac Deutscher). The last time that I had taken any interest in Trotsky was when I was a teenager and had fleeting delusions of believing in “socialism.” Reading the new book as an adult and as an economist, I found it a useful opportunity to...

Harold Radford in 1999 HALIFAX - The last known Nova Scotia-born man to serve during the First World War died Friday, leaving fewer than a dozen veterans from that conflict alive in Canada. Harold Radford was 106. He had been in good health until days before his death. Radford died at the Camp Hill Veterans' Memorial Building, where he lived for the last six years. He developed pneumonia last month after falling down. He served with the Nova Scotia Regiment in Vladivostok, Russia from 1918-19. Radford, a star baseball player in Halifax, was to be shipped off to the...