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‘Almost noiseless’ 3rd Russian nuclear-powered sub begins sea trials

By Editor One on January 8, 2013 Africa / Europe, Exclusives, Latest From Geostrategy-Direct, Life, Russia, Top Stories

Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Russia’s third Borei-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN), the Vladimir Monomakh, recently began sea trials from the northern shipbuilding town of Severodvinsk. The official RIA Novosti news agency called the Vladimir Monomakh “super-modern, powerful and almost noiseless.” The Borei-class SSBN is Russia’s first post-Soviet designed nuclear submarine. […]

Where’s Vladimir? Kremlin spokesmen vague on Putin’s health

By Editor One on December 11, 2012 Africa / Europe, Exclusives, Latest From Geostrategy-Direct, Life, Russia, Top Stories

Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com The Kremlin is adamant that rumors about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ill health are only rumors. But Putin has not been meeting his scheduled events over the past couple of months. In early November, Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Putin suffered from some illness. He denied […]

Welcome to Soviet America! (Was my 1975 1-act play prophetic?)

By Editor One on November 25, 2012 Africa / Europe, Columnists, COMMENTARY, Exclusives, Lev Navrozov, Life, Recent Hits, Russia, Stateside, Top Stories, U.S. Media, U.S. Politics

Lev Navrozov “Lev, this is Julie. Do you remember me?” The voice on the phone sounded familiar. She went on: “Almost forty years ago, I believe the year was 1975, I went to see your play ‘Welcome to Soviet America!’ at Carnegie Hall. It was a one-actor play, in which you played all the roles, […]

Open letter to the American people: We Soviet emigres have already seen this movie

By Editor One on October 7, 2012 Africa / Europe, Columnists, COMMENTARY, Exclusives, Lev Navrozov, Life, Recent Hits, Russia, Stateside, Top Stories, U.S. Politics, World Links

Lev Navrozov Am I to believe that I have wasted forty years of my life in this country trying to explain the nature of dictatorship and what it meant to have been born and lived in Stalin’s paradise the first half of my life? Have I failed to pass on to you my first-hand knowledge […]

Dangerous: An undetected Russian sub and the ‘likeability’ factor in U.S. politics

By Editor One on August 31, 2012 Africa / Europe, Columnists, COMMENTARY, Exclusives, Lev Navrozov, Life, Russia, Stateside, Top Stories, U.S. Intelligence, U.S. Politics, World Links

Lev Navrozov “For Almost a Month, Americans Failed to Detect Russian Submarine Near Its Shores” reads the headline on an article by Yelena Sidorenko in the Russian newspaper “Vzglyad: Delovaya Gazeta” (“The View: the Business Newspaper”) of Aug. 15. A Russian “Akula-B”-class nuclear-powered attack submarine of Project 971 (as it is classified by the NATO), […]

Stalin’s dentist: Talent, that mysterious quality, is a rare thing

By Editor One on August 23, 2012 Africa / Europe, Columnists, COMMENTARY, Exclusives, Great Britain, Lev Navrozov, Life, Russia, Stateside, Top Stories, U.S. Culture

Lev Navrozov England was our first love. Good Old England. There was no way for us who studied English to go and live there, which was our impossible dream. We got to learn so much about it from books and recordings. Our son studied English by listening to Gielgud’s recitals of Shakespeare’s poems. He imitated […]

Putin bombshell: He planned invasion, war in Georgia 4 years ago

By Editor One on August 21, 2012 Africa / Europe, Exclusives, Georgia, Latest From Geostrategy-Direct, Life, Russia

Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com On the fourth anniversary of the brief but brutal war with Georgia over the breakaway region of South Ossetia, Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted that the invasion of Georgia was long planned and he was personally involved in the approval and execution of the war. Putin’s comments […]

Where is the U.S. indictment of Julian Assange?

By Editor One on August 19, 2012 Africa / Europe, Americas, Ecuador, Exclusives, Great Britain, Life, Russia, Stateside, Top Stories, U.S. Intelligence

Special to WorldTribune.com By Cliff Kincaid The story we get repeatedly from the press is that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange received asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London because he fears being sent by the British to Sweden to answer sex charges and then eventually being extradited to the U.S. to answer espionage charges here. […]

From late-night arrests in the USSR to Soros-funded ‘progressive’ assaults on freedom in the U.S.

By Editor One on August 15, 2012 Africa / Europe, Columnists, COMMENTARY, Exclusives, Lev Navrozov, Russia, Stateside, Top Stories, U.S. Politics

Lev Navrozov I was born in Moscow; I went to a Soviet school, where I discovered that there were things one should never mention in class. In particular, my parents told me never to reveal to my classmates any conversations we were having at home and never to discuss anything going on in our family. […]

After 12 years of de facto dictatorship, a sense of foreboding in Moscow

By Editor One on August 8, 2012 Life, Russia

On the surface, Moscow has never looked more prosperous. High-end restaurants are full. Cyclists, strollers, and rollerbladers crowd Gorky Park. Newly built skyscrapers give the city a modern skyline, and streets are clogged with late-model Western cars. But there is a growing sense of unease. … After years when opposition demonstrations typically attracted no […]