Russia How a 'Deal With the Devil' Backfired and Changed History fee.org On this date—April 16—in the fateful year of 1917, the Russian communist Vladimir Lenin arrived in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) from exile in …
The DriveKiev The Sad Story Of How This Soviet Aircraft Carrier Ended Up Rotting In A Landlocked Chinese Lagoon verified_publisherThe Drive - Joseph Trevithick The Kiev class carrier Minsk was saved from the scrapyard after the fall of the Soviet Union, but is now wasting away 50 miles northwest of …
Germany Russia Won World War II Thanks to Its Snipers—This Is What They Used nationalinterest.org - Robert Beckhusen There were simply more Soviet snipers, with more scoped rifles, than Germany could match early on.Here's What You Need To Remember: The Soviet Union …
BBC NewsEurope Sputnik V: How Russia's Covid vaccine is dividing Europe verified_publisherBBC News - By Kevin ConnollyIt's no coincidence that Russia has christened its Covid vaccine Sputnik V. The first time the world learned the meaning of the Russian word Sputnik was in 1957 when the Soviet Union launched the first...
Russia Putin's A-10: Why Russia Is Doubling Down on Its Su-25 Frogfoot nationalinterest.org - Sebastien Roblin Not only has Russia had a lot of experience flying Su-25s in combat—it has shot several down as well.Here's What You Need to Remember: The …
The InterceptLiberal View The U.S. Could Have Left Afghanistan Years Ago, Sparing Many Lives verified_publisherThe Intercept - Murtaza Hussain President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw most U.S. troops from Afghanistan marks a significant reduction in America’s participation in the war. But …
NPRFidel Castro Cuba Without A Castro: The Island's Old Guard Exits The Stage verified_publisherNPR - Carrie Kahn , Scott NeumanA generation of Cuban revolutionaries who seized power more than six decades ago, directly challenging the U.S. and later pushing Washington and Moscow to the brink of nuclear war, is set to exit the At...
Poland 3 resign from Auschwitz council after politician appointed fox13memphis.com - VANESSA GERA (AP) — Three members of an advisory council for the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum in Poland have resigned after the government appointed a former prime …
NDTVChina "China Poses Biggest Geopolitical Test For US In 21st Century": CIA Chief NDTV - Press Trust of India China poses the single biggest geopolitical test for the US in the 21st century, CIA Director William Burns has said, stressing that this threat is …
FBI Inside The Deadly Spy Game That Saw A Star FBI Agent Sell US Secrets To Moscow For 22 Years allthatsinteresting.com - Morgan Dunn In what is now considered the largest intelligence breach in FBI history, Robert Hanssen’s scandal made him millions in diamonds and cash, but cost …
BBC FutureSpace The genius behind early Russian space tech verified_publisherBBC Future - Richard HollinghamWithin a few days of returning to Earth, Yuri Gagarin stood alongside Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow’s Red Square to be welcomed by tens of thousands of people cheering his success. It was...
Liberal View America’s Neoliberal Financialization Policy vs. China’s Industrial Socialism - CounterPunch.org counterpunch.org Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Nearly half a millennium ago Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince described three options for how a conquering power …
DeciderBenedict CumberbatchStream It Or Skip It: ‘The Courier’ on VOD, a Sturdy Historical Drama in Which Benedict Cumberbatch Tries to Thwart the War... Decider - John Serba The Courier stars Benedict Cumberbatch as a man named Greville Wynne, perhaps the only man who ever lived with a name more astoundingly British than …
Military Just How Dangerous Are Supercavitating Torpedoes to the U.S. Navy? nationalinterest.org - Caleb Larson Both Iran and Russia claim to have them.Here's What You Need to Know: If mastered, this technology could revolutionize naval warfare.Both Iran and …
The GuardianReligion Michael Bourdeaux obituary verified_publisherThe Guardian - Xenia DennenMichael Bourdeaux, who has died aged 87, founded Keston College in Bromley, south-east London, in 1969 as a centre for the study and dissemination of reliable information about religion in communist countries....
Russia Ukraine threatens to build nuclear weapons to ward off Russia threat thesun.co.uk - Will Stewart UKRAINE has warned that it could build nuclear weapons to combat Russia if the West does not allow it to join NATO. This comes as Vladimir Putin has …
Reason.comEast Berlin Spy City Lives Up to Its Name with Complex Cold War Intrigue Reason.com - Glenn Garvin AMC+ thriller takes viewers to paranoid, dangerous ‘60s Berlin. Spy City. Available now on AMC+. In the new AMC+ spy-thriller minseries Spy City, set in …
Liberal View The Book That Stopped an Outbreak of Nuclear War newrepublic.com - Andre Pagliarini A new history of the Cuban missile crisis emphasizes how close the world came to destruction—and how severe a threat the weapons still pose. It is …
Cities 24-year-old aims to be NYC’s first Bukharian City Council member jpost.com - By LAUREN HAKIMI/JTA “The community is very conservative,” the 24-year-old said in an interview on Queens Boulevard and 63rd Drive. In the 30 years since the collapse of …
National ReviewConservative View Colin Powell’s Bad Memory | National Review National Review - Matthew Continetti Yesterday’s Washington Post scoop that President Biden intends to withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan by the 20th anniversary of 9/11 closes …
Classic Cars Rare Soviet Limo For Sale In Ohio With A $200K Asking Price hotcars.com - Artur Novichenko An advertisement for the sale of a famous classic car, a Soviet limousine ZIL-41047, which was released in 1989, appeared on the ClassicCars online …
India #Tragic Tales The incredible actor suffered several misfortunes yahoo.com - Farhana Farook Balraj Sahni believed in influential Soviet and Russian theatre practitioner, Konstantin Stanislavski, who spoke of ‘emotional memory’. That explains …
South China Morning Post Opinion & Analysis To counter a rising China, the US must show its powers are not in decline verified_publisherSouth China Morning Post - Gregory Mitrovich One of the most perplexing aspects of the intensifying US-China rivalry is the absence of key flashpoints or strategic drivers that normally …
Israel WATCH: An exclusive trailer for ‘Upheaval,’ the story of Menachem Begin forward.com - PJ Grisar Menachem Begin’s legacy beggars belief. The former Prime Minister of Israel survived the Shoah and Soviet Gulags. He headed the Irgun, leading the …
Russia Passing of Dr. Vartan Gregorian crisisgroup.org S2 Episode 12: Police, Protests & Populism in Central Asia Central Asia is no exception to the protests that have emerged with renewed vigour on a …
Russia Russian troops paint tanks with 'invasion stripes' amid Ukraine war fears dailystar.co.uk - Robin Cottle Locals in Russia noticed tanks painted with white stripes as forces deployed on Ukraine's border swell. Military experts say similar markings were …
TIMERussia Why the New Sanctions Against Russia Are Really About 2016 TIME - By Philip ElliottThis article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. The Kremlin chief liked what he saw. Here was a candidate could...
Caucasus Valery Melnikov SOY-AJ | World Press Photo worldpressphoto.org 14 November, 2020 Anushavan (62) stands in a pomegranate orchard in the yard of his home, in the village of Ukhtasar, Nagorno-Karabakh. He holds a …
Nuclear Energy Dead Hand: Russia's Plan to Nuke America (Even if America Hit First) nationalinterest.org - Caleb Larson Even if the Soviet Union’s leadership and capital were smoldering piles of ash, the Soviet Union could guarantee retaliation.Here's What You Need to …
The ArtsAlice Neel's Communism Is Essential to Her Art. You Can See It in the 'Battlefield' of Her Paintings, and Her Cruel Portrait... artnet.com - Ben Davis The great painter's survey shows how she believed in art as a form of history. Alice Neel painted “the human comedy.” It’s a phrase she repeated often …
