TASS is authorized... to keep silent. This book is about how government authorized information agencies to not to disclose details of military operations and natural disasters to public.

In this volume, the scholar Andrei Kokoshin examines the role and place of technocrats as a socio-cultural phenomenon in contemporary societies. He examines the development of technocrats in both Russia and other countries.

The author seeks to distinguish myth from reality about Russian criminal activity in Europe.

The book tells about the opposition of German aircraft and the Soviet Northern Fleet and Allied convoys bound for Murmansk and Arkhangelsk. On the basis of archival materials, eyewitnesses and other documentary sources, the authors reconstruct the vast panorama of events that occurred in the Arctic from 1941 to 1945.

‘Attention, Tigers!’ - these words, pronounced in various languages by soldiers of the armies of the anti-Hitler coalition, made hearts beat faster, if not from horror, then from the awareness of a mortal threat. At these moments, the soldiers' minds were not filled with the image of a ferocious striped cat, but with the idea of an invulnerable steel giant machine, spewing fire and death....