On 6 August 1888, the body of a 35-year-old prostitute, Martha Tabram, was found in London with her throat cut, stomach ripped open and intestines gutted. On 31 August, another prostitute, Mary Ann Nichols, was killed. Then four more murders, … Read More
The Voting Rights Act was signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson on 6 August 1965. This marked the beginning of a new era in the United States. L.B. Johnson repealed discriminatory voting policies that were primarily adopted … Read More
On 6 August at about seven o’clock in the morning, Japanese early-warning radars detected several American aircraft heading towards the southern part of Japan. An air alert was announced. Radio broadcasts were stopped in many cities, including Hiroshima. At about … Read More
About 600 people were brought to trial. Russian Emperor (Tsar) Nikolay I took a direct and active part in the investigation. He conducted interrogations in his office. The investigation committee informed Nikolay I about every step of the process. However, … Read More
M.N. Gernet was born in Ardatov, Simbirsk governorate. His father was a professional revolutionary and his mother – a People’s Teacher. Mikhail was the elder brother of the famous teacher-mathematician Nadezhda Gernet. In 1893, M.N. Gernet graduated from the Simbirsk … Read More
On 13 July 1944, a platoon of Senior Lieutenant S.E. Popov from the 157th Engineer-Sapper battalion was killed during the demining of the grave of Aleksandr Pushkin in the Pushkin Mountains near Pskov. The soldiers found mines on the road … Read More
On 10 July 2020, Sergey Ye. Naryshkin opened the museum exposition «Nuremberg tocsin». Head of the project, Vice-President of the Union of Criminalists and Criminologists Alexander G. Zvyagintsev. A.G. Zvyagintsev conducted the first tour of the exposition. One of the … Read More
PERSON: Igor M. Matskevich Author and organizer: Natalia A. Lopashenko, Doctor of Legal Sciences, Professor, Professor of the Saratov State Academy of Law, Winner of the National Prize for Literature in the field of Law, Honoured Lawyer of the Russian … Read More
Veronika Gavrilenko A summary of the Lenta.ru report Read more (in Russian): https://news.mail.ru/incident/42410130/?frommail=10 Mysteries of the Past CeCe Moore, a former American model, became the country’s leading genetic genealogist and helped solve 109 brutal crimes in just a few years. … Read More
The Information Centre of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in Saint-Petersburg together with the German Center for Research and Innovation (DWIH) in Moscow with the support of the German-Russian Chamber of Commerce (AHK) are holding a series of three … Read More
The Association of Leading Universities and the Council of Rectors of Universities in Saint-Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast with the support of TASS, are holding an international student competition «Russia and the USA: Russia and the USA: a step forward». The … Read More
The State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia (Moscow, 21, Tverskaya Street) has an exposition dedicated to the Nuremberg trials (The Peoples’ Trial of Nazism). Such a large-scale museum exposition on the Nuremberg trials is held for the first … Read More
On 25 June (7 July) 1882, Mikhail Dmitrievich Skobelev, the Russian General, the defeater of the Turks and the conqueror of Kokand and Bukhara, died under mysterious circumstances. On 22 June (4 July) 1882, Skobelev arrived in Moscow. As usual, … Read More
The meeting of the Union’s Bureau was held on 24 June 2020. The meeting was attended by the heads of Foreign Representative Offices: Prof. Uwe Hellmann from Germany and Taalaibek T. Shamurzaev from the Kyrgyz Republic. The meeting summed up … Read More
On 19 June 1862, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln passed the Abolition of Slavery Act. On 1 January 1863, he issued the Declaration of Independence calling on the Union Army to free all slaves owned by landowners. However, the effect of … Read More
On this day, in front of the entrance to the prison Saint-Pierre in the center of the Parisian suburb Versailles, in front of a crowd gathered as if for a performance, the serial killer Eugene Weidmann was executed: his head … Read More
