07-27-2003, 06:29 PM
Its a great magazine, the best for Russian items. The authors like Stepanov, and Tseplankov, are the most well versed int he world on these subjects. I have met and spoken with them in Moscow and they had real difficulty back in 1998-1999 keeping the magazine published. They put it on "hold" for about a year, but it came back in 2000 stronger than ever. In every issue there is at least one article worth the price. The magazing still loses money each month ( or whenever its published) and the guys who runa nd own it subsidize it by selling militaria at izmailova.
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