Just The News has exclusively obtained and released nearly 700 pages of declassified FBI documents from the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, following President Trump’s order and FBI Director Kash Patel’s delivery to Congress.
Over generations Ukraine’s rich dark soil and vast steppe has provided Europe with the grain required to feed its burgeoning peoples, with the country’s status as the ‘breadbasket of Europe’ more than deserved in consequence. In Tsarist times, as part of the Russian Empire, Ukrainian grain and wheat was Russia’s primary export commodity, helping to fund the exorbitant lifestyles of the Tsar and his extensive court.
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Historically and ideologically, Moscow not Kiev represents the future
Over generations Ukraine’s rich dark soil and vast steppe has provided Europe with the grain required to feed its burgeoning peoples, with the country’s status as the ‘breadbasket of Europe’ more than deserved in consequence. In Tsarist times, as part of the Russian Empire, Ukrainian grain and wheat was Russia’s primary export commodity, helping to fund the exorbitant lifestyles of the Tsar and his extensive court.
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The US has told Group of Seven allies it won’t endorse a statement condemning Russia’s deadliest attack on Ukraine this year because it wants to keep negotiations with Moscow on track.
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Donald Trump expresses interest in a personal meeting with Vladimir Putin, but nevertheless continues to postpone the date of a possible summit, believing that Moscow, at the moment, is not yet ready. On April 10, the U.S. president even extended for another year the draconian sanctions against Russia introduced at the time by his predecessor, Joe Biden, justifying the decision by the alleged “grave danger” Moscow would continue to pose to U.S. national security.
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America’s Central Europe Allie Do Not Make the US Stronger and More Secure
A mantra endlessly repeated by US officials and military leaders, especially in their testimony before Congress, is that America’s vast network of minor state allies in NATO and around the world provide it with resources and power that Russia and China cannot match. However, this is simply not true. It is a fantasy, unsupported by the factual historical record.
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BREAKING: Read the Russia collusion memos President Trump declassified and FBI Director Patel handed to Congress
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Toward a Historic Peace Summit
On September 23, 1775, Russian Empress Catherine the Great, rejected the request of the British King, George III, to send 20,000 soldiers to suppress the revolt for independence in America. Russian neutrality favored the Americans’ cause, decisively thwarting British efforts to defeat the rebels. Almost three centuries after Catherine the Great’s historic stance, it is time for the United States to return the favor to Russia.
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Historically and ideologically, Moscow not Kiev represents the future
Over generations Ukraine’s rich dark soil and vast steppe has provided Europe with the grain required to feed its burgeoning peoples, with the country’s status as the ‘breadbasket of Europe’ more than deserved in consequence. In Tsarist times, as part of the Russian Empire, Ukrainian grain and wheat was Russia’s primary export commodity, helping to fund the exorbitant lifestyles of the Tsar and his extensive court.
US Derails G-7 Condemnation of Russian Missile Strike on Ukraine
The US has told Group of Seven allies it won’t endorse a statement condemning Russia’s deadliest attack on Ukraine this year because it wants to keep negotiations with Moscow on track.
There is still reason for optimism that the Trump administration can bring the war in Ukraine to a diplomatic end. But insubstantial promises of a fast, smooth sailing solution have splintered against the solidity of reality. Campaign promises of a day became goals of a hundred. As the hundredth day appears on the horizon, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that the U.S. is still far from securing a diplomatic solution and that there is no guarantee that there will be one.
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Аbout Vladimir Emelyanovich Maximov
Vladimir Emelyanovich Maximov (Russian: Владимир Емельянович Максимов, born Lev Alexeyevich Samsonov, Лев Алексеевич Самсонов; 27 November 1930, — 26 March 1995) was a Soviet and Russian writer, publicist, essayist and editor, one of the leading figures of the Soviet and post-Soviet dissident movement abroad.
Maximov Vladimir Emelyanovich
Biography
Born in Moscow into a working class family, Lev Samsonov spent an unhappy childhood in and out of orphanages and colonies after his father was prosecuted in 1937 during the anti-Trotskyism purge. He went to Siberia to travel there under an assumed name, Vladimir Maximov (to become later his pen name), spent time in jails and labour camps, then worked as a bricklayer and construction worker. In 1951 he settled in one of the Kuban stanitsas and started to write short stories and poems for local newspapers. His debut book Pokolenye na chasakh (Generation on the Look-out) came out in Cherkessk in 1956.
In 1956 Maximov returned to Moscow and published, among other pieces, the short novel My obzhivayem zemlyu (We Harness the Land, 1961) telling the story of Siberian hobos, courageous, but deeply troubled men, trying to find each their own way of settling down into the unfriendly Soviet reality. It was followed by Zhiv chelovek (Man is Alive). The former caught the attention of Konstantin Paustovsky who included it into his almanac Pages from Tarusa. The latter found its champion in Vsevolod Kochetov who in 1962 published it in Oktyabr, which he was then in charge of. It was met with both public and critical acclaim and was produced in 1965 by the Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre. In 1963 Maximov became a member of the Union of Soviet Writers and in the mid-1960s joined the Oktyabr magazine's staff. All the while, though, his literary output was getting harsher, darker and more pessimistic.
Two of Maximov's early 1970s novels, Sem dnei tvorenya (Seven Days of Creation, 1971) and The Quarantin (1973) proved to be the turning point of his career. On the one hand, in retrospect they marked the high point of his creativity. On the other, steeped with the longing for Christian ideals and skeptical as to the viability of the Communist morality, both went against the grain of the norms and the criteria of Socialist realism. They were rejected by all Soviet publishers, came out in Samizdat, were officially banned and got their author into serious trouble. In June 1973 he was expelled from the Writers' Union, and spent several months in a psychiatric ward. In 1974 Maximov left the country to settle in Paris, and in October 1975 was stripped of the Soviet citizenship.
In 1974 Maximov launched the literary, political and religious magazine Kontinent to take up what many saw as the Hertzen-founded tradition of supporting the Russian literature in exile. It became the center point of Russian intellectual life in Western Europe, attracting such diverse authors as Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Alexander Galich, Viktor Nekrasov, Joseph Brodsky and Andrey Sakharov, the latter describing Maximov as "the man of unwavering honesty." Maximov remained the magazine's editor-in-chief up until 1992, when, during one of his visits to Moscow, he transferred it to Russia and granted all rights to his colleagues in Moscow. He was also the head of the executive committee of the international anti-communist organization Resistance International.
Among Maximov's best-known works written in France were the novels Kovcheg dlya nezvanykh (The Arc for the Uninvited, 1976), telling the story of the Soviet development of the Kuril Islands after the World War II, an autobiographical dilogy Proshchanye iz niotkuda (Farewell from Nowhere, 1974—1982), and Zaglyanut v bezdnu (To Look Into the Abyss, 1986), the latter having as its theme Alexander Kolchak's romantic life. All three, based upon historical documents, portrayed Bolshevism as a doctrine of ruthlessness, amorality and political voluntarism. He authored several plays on the life of Russians in emigration, among them Who's Afraid of Ray Bradbury? (Кто боится Рэя Брэдбери?, 1988), Berlin at the Night's End (Берлин на исходе ночи,1991) and There, Over the River... (Там, за рекой, 1991).
The drastic change in political situation in his homeland and the fall of the Soviet Union left Maximov unimpressed. He switched to criticizing the new Russia's regime and, while still a staunch anti-Communist, started to published his diatribes aimed at Egor Gaidar-led liberal reforms regularly in the Communist Pravda, to great disdain of some of his friends.
