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On July 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon addressed the nation on a live television broadcast to make an unexpected announcement: he had accepted an invitation from Beijing to become the first American president to visit the People's!-->…

MOSCOW - President Vladimir V. Putin has said he is ready to continue negotiations on Russia's security demands in Eastern Europe, but has issued a stern warning about the possibility of full-scale war between Russia and the West - in a…

IIf, as seems increasingly likely, Russia decides not to launch an all-out invasion of Ukraine, the American and British politicians who have spent weeks scaring the public into talking freely about impending Armageddon will have an…

BEIJING — Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Friday opened an Olympics meant to celebrate his country's increasingly secure global status, standing defiantly alongside his Russian counterpart, Vladimir V. Putin, in a competition of increasingly…

German Bundeswehr troopsThe more the US and NATO escalate their war campaign against Russia, the more aggressively the ruling class in Germany behaves. The media are caught up in a veritable war frenzy and demand that the German government…

BEIJING (AP) — The first so-called modern Olympics were held in 1896 in Athens. But the first Winter Olympics didn't take place until 1924 in Chamonix, France. Calvin Coolidge was the US President at the time, and Vladimir Lenin died that…

The prime minister has offered to sign a peace and friendship treaty with Pakistan. Surprisingly, Ms Gandhi made her offer at the end of her hour-long meeting with Pakistani journalists and not during the formal Indo-Pakistani…

With tens of thousands of Russian troops massed along the Ukrainian border, Moscow finds itself in one of its most tense clashes with the West since the fall of the Soviet Union. The Kremlin denies plans to invade Ukraine, but the…

By Ivana Kottasova and Bryony Jones, CNN NATO — the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, to give it its full name — is a non-aggressive European and North American defense alliance created to promote peace and stability and to…

On Sundays, parishioners of St. Sophia Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in The Colony recite a prayer for the "Old World.""We also pray for peace...especially for peace in Ukraine," the priest…

Russia's recent crypto ban has drawn criticism from several big names, including Alexei Navalny's chief of staff, Leonid Volkov, and Telegram founder, Pavel Durov. On January 20, the Central Bank of Russia released a report proposing a…

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — Ukrainian soldiers, Kalashnikov rifles slung over their shoulders, patrolled through a silent, snowy forest, past houses abandoned for so long that vines twirled through shattered windows.The fields lie fallow, the…

In the new Thing series, Ben Grimm mixes up history by calling Russia the USSR, which adds another puzzle to Marvel's tricky timeline. There is a time indicator in the new Thing series which…

A view of the Moscow Kremlin and St. Basil's Cathedral.Mikhail Japaridze | CASS | Getty ImagesBRUSSELS — Russia must move forward in the world and stop dreaming of rebuilding the Soviet Union, a senior Ukrainian diplomat has told CNBC as…

The Belarusian strongman has announced that his country and its close ally Russia will hold joint military exercises near the eastern borders of NATO and Ukraine in February, according to media reports. reported Monday.…

Belarusian Hanna Sola competes in the women's 4x6 km relay event at the IBU Biathlon World Cup in Ruhpolding, southern Germany, on January 14, 2022. (Photo by CHRISTOF STACHE / AFP) (Photo by CHRISTOF STACHE/AFP via Getty Images)Watch…

No less than three high-level talks between the United States (U.S.) and Russia over the past week have seemingly failed to resolve the standoff over Ukraine, a standoff in which Russia appears to hold all the strengths. It is said that…

Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov. (Photo by Denis Balibouse / AFP / Getty Images.)On Monday, Russian Lifetime President Vladimir Putin explained that the "peacekeepers" paratroopers…

You may not have been glued to the Finnish President's annual New Year's speech. It's understandable but unfortunate, because Sauli Niinisto said some remarkable things. His speech should give an idea to the European Union, to…

After World War II, Austria, like Germany, was divided between the Western powers and the Soviet Union. Like any spectator of The third man the film knows that Vienna, like Berlin, had four zones of occupation. Unlike the solution for…

Published on: 06/01/2022 - 21:46Amended: 06/01/2022 - 21:44 Paris (AFP) - The regime that has ruled Kazakhstan since the fall of the Soviet Union is coming to an end in a popular revolution…

What would later become the Prague Spring began with the accession, that day in 1968, of reformist Alexander Dubček to the post of first secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. Dubček tried to!-->…

Joe Biden: The president asterisk Biden won over 81 million votes in the 2020 presidential election, the highest number of presidential candidates in U.S. history. Would that be enough to give his presidency an air of legitimacy after his…

The end of the US military occupation of Afghanistan and the return of the Taliban to power have sparked an intense debate over the future goals and directions of US foreign policy. The main question is whether the US military withdrawal…

AdvertisingIt is December 10, 1989. A Mongolian band sings "The Sound of a Bell" in Sukhbaatar Square - symbolically awakening the Mongolian population and welcoming democracy. At this time, the Soviet Union was on the verge of…

The war between Finland and the Soviet Union was cold, not only in terms of the temperatures on the ground during the fighting, but also in terms of the feelings each side had for each other. Before World War II broke out in…

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In Armenia, it is estimated that less than a quarter of residents had been vaccinated against COVID-19 by mid-December, even as the country fired vaccinated tourists.The numbers are nowhere near as striking in Glendale and Los Angeles…

A $ 2 billion B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is now visible on Google Earth after a Reddit user shared a photo of the plane flying over a farmer's field in Missouri.The user, as Hippowned, posted the photo of Davis, Missouri on Monday, which…

Over the past year, tensions between Russia on one side and Ukraine and the West on the other have erupted, fueling fears of yet another armed conflict. The two sides exchanged accusations of provoking a military escalation and there was…

At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union was trying to acquire a huge military outweighs its Western rivals. Nuclear weaponry was of course underway, but the Soviets were keen to improve and massively expand their air force.…

By Arul Louis * American realpolitik took a 180-degree turn between 1971 and today, but Washington continues to pay a heavy price for the decision that led it to turn a blind eye to the genocide perpetrated in Bangladesh by Pakistani…

(December 17, 2021) Eighty years ago this week, the Red Army drove the Wehrmacht from the gates of Moscow.…

Supporters and leaders of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata (BJP) party shout slogans during a rally in favor of a new citizenship law which opponents say threatens India's secular identity, in Kolkata, India on Friday February 7, 2020.…

Moscow - Russian President Vladimir Poutine claimed that the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s had left him so struggling financially that he was forced to work as a taxi driver to earn extra money. "Sometimes I had to…

December 12, 2021 12:01 AM (UTC + 04: 00) 190 Today marks the 18th anniversary of the death of Azerbaijani national leader Heydar Aliyev. The memory of the national leader is…

Nixon wanted the United States and China to act jointly against India and informed his Chinese counterpart of the movement of the US Naval Task Force through a map showing the deployment of US and Soviet forces. On this day in 1971, when…

“He has been generous not only to his staff, but to me as well,” she said in an email. "From our conversation I expected some wise advice and serious mentoring, which came, but not before he spent half…

After Stalin's death in 1953, his successors wanted a period of reflection with Washington. President Dwight Eisenhower obliged them with a period called "detente". This lasted until 1960, when a new Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev…

By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Siberian Gulag in the life of Yuriy Sokolov Soon after graduating from high school in Kiev, Ukraine at the age of 17, I was employed at the shipbuilding factory named Leninskaya Kuznitsa (Lenin's Forge), now known as…

Published on: 12/02/2021 - 03:50Amended: 12/02/2021 - 03:49 Stockholm (AFP) - Chief diplomats from the United States and Russia are due to meet in Sweden on Thursday as tensions soar after…

Both on climate change and on new dual-use technologies, Europe's founding peace project should go global. The devastation of the region during the two world wars deprived it of the desire to dominate others,…

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ANI | Update: November 25, 2021 4:55 PM STI Taipei , November 25 (ANI): A dozen Lithuanian, Estonian and Latvian…

The United States and Russia are working together from Cuba to prevent further nuclear crises. The world's first nuclear arms race offers two important lessons on how to avoid a second: First, the United States and China should avoid…

The former Soviet Union launching the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, in space in October 1957 was a turning point in the history of mankind. He scored the first blow in the space race. The Soviets followed with a series…

It is often said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is "play a weak hand well. "But according to Catherine stoner, an expert on Russia at Stanford University, this conventional analysis is incomplete. She argues that…

The four male players elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2022 could be former Canucks. On Monday, the Hockey Hall of Fame finally inducted its Class of 2020, an honor delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Jarome Iginla, Marian…

Polish security personnel behind a barbed wire fence at the Belarusian-Polish border. Poland and ... Belarus clashed with thousands of migrants seeking entry into EU member Poland on November 9, with Warsaw saying the…

Back in the days when the Soviet Union collapsed, there was a lot of talk of a peace dividend - a sharp cut in US government spending on militarism. The dividends of peace did not come. Instead, the U.S. government began to spend…

08 NOVEMBER 2021 For nearly three decades, the Berlin Wall was the physical symbol of the Cold War, separating democratic West Berlin from communist East Berlin. Today we remember the East Germans who fled and those who died trying to…

Participants in the 36th Los Angeles Marathon set off for races on Sunday morning, and the male and female winners have already crossed the finish line. John Korir of Kenya is the winner in the men's race with a time of two…

November 6, 2021WASHINGTON DCAAMERICA A a math problem. Its students have been poorly ranked on international mathematics exams for decades. In 2018, 15-year-old Americans ranked 25th in the OECD, a club of predominantly rich countries.…

Russia is a true friend of Bangladesh. Diplomatic relations were established between Bangladesh and the Soviet Union on January 25, 1972. Next year will mark the 50e anniversary of bilateral relations. Bangladesh has maintained…

This image can be seen in many civil society organizations created in the 1990s, where a leader, or group of leaders, still sits at the helm all the time, working 20 hours a day without a personal life, on weekends. and vacations, building…

In summary Pentagon spending was once a huge factor in the California economy, and its decline tells us that we shouldn't take prosperity for granted. California has experienced…

This was the call of the American conservatives four decades ago when the solidarity movement of union leader Lech Walesa formed in the port city of Gdansk to demand their release from the communist system imposed on…

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Beneath the streets of Tbilisi is a network of Soviet-era tunnels, bomb shelters, and chambers that many residents know nothing about. Over the past few months, the photographer David Tabagari explored this silent underground world with…

Shavkat Mirziyoyev won Sunday's presidential poll in Uzbekistan to start another five years as head of Central Asia's most populous country. The incumbent has always been the big favorite to win the vote, and the only…

Russia and the United States released their latest nuclear weapons tally at a time when ties between Moscow and the US-led NATO military alliance were in freefall.The Russian Foreign Ministry on Monday released its latest report on "the…

Sixty-five years ago Soviet troops crushed the Hungarian revolution. The Soviet Union launched a propaganda campaign blaming the West for the uprising and bloodshed. Howard Norton, a reporter for the Baltimore Sun, reported from…

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The mainstream media, defending Biden's White House amid the president's polls, urged Americans to lower their expectations of daily living conditions instead of blaming the federal government for their new problems, the panel discussed on…

Oct 19, 2021 Left links of domestic spies Big budget movies like "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" and "True lies" sparked the intrigue with the shock of someone discovering that their spouse or…

"I assumed the MiG-31 pilot would love nothing better than an opportunity to fire his missiles at an SR-71 Blackbird," Ed Yeilding, SR-71 Blackbird pilot. “Flying straight towards…

JIUQUAN, China, October 16 (Reuters) - China on Saturday launched a rocket carrying three astronauts - two men and a woman - to the central module of a future space station where they will live and work for six months, the longest orbit…

The glaring errors became clear shortly after a former Wisconsin judge issued subpoenas earlier this month in a Republican review of the state's 2020 presidential election. Some of the requests referred to the wrong city. At least…

The Nobel Peace Prize awarded last week to Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, journalists from the Philippines and Russia respectively, was an important reminder of the vital role civic actors play in promoting international peace. It also…

Protein Plan and Green DealThe reasons for the commission's plan are manifold. Soybeans were previously mainly used to produce vegetable oils, but their market value exploded when what was left after oil production began to be used as a…

October 9, 2021HYDROGEN A controversial since the tragedy of the Hindenburg, a filled airship that caught fire in 1937. Boosters say gas is a low-carbon miracle that can power cars and homes. The hydrogen economy, they hope, will redraw…

The United States is committed to taking action so that the Babyn Yar tragedy is not repeated. “So on this anniversary, we honor the memory of all who are lost in Babyn Yar, we recommit ourselves to…

A former member of the Quad-City Symphony Orchestra is suing the organization, claiming he was fired for expressing widespread conservative beliefs about the Black Lives Matter movement. Yuri Grankin,…

BERLIN (AP) - The organization that handles claims on behalf of Jews who suffered under the Nazis said on Wednesday that Germany had agreed to extend compensation to Jewish survivors who endured the siege of Leningrad during the Second…

A University of Chicago associate professor of geophysics spoke out against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on Tuesday after the university canceled its invited lecture amid criticism from activist groups on campus.During…

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TBILISI, Georgia (AP) - The ruling party in the former Georgian Soviet Republic leads the partial results in national municipal elections, but municipal elections in the country's four largest cities will likely need a second tower. The…

Kurt Campbell, the Biden administration's coordinator for Indo-Pacific affairs at the National Security Council, recently declared that "The period which has been widely described as the engagement ended. This shift from a…

Couple support Pacific Grove hotel construction project We have been living in our residence just up the street from the American Tin Cannery in Pacific Grove since 1984, so we know the location very well and are writing to you to express…

In 1938, at the height of Stalin's Great Terror, Russian ballet dancer Nina Anisimova was arrested by the NKVD, the Soviet secret police. His alleged crime was to work as a Nazi spy. Although she could not be found…

VILNIUS, Lithuania - It has never been a secret that China tightly controls what its people can read and write on their cell phones. But it came as a shock to Lithuanian officials when they discovered that a popular phone made in China…

KEMEROVO, Russia - A Siberian court has found a group of eight people guilty of negligence in a 2018 fire in the city of Kemerovo that killed 60 people, including 37 children.Zavodskoi District Court found on September 30 the former…

BRUSSELS, Sept.29 (Reuters) - The European Union, Britain and Italy have urged Russia to commit to achieving net zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 and to step up plans to fight it climate change before COP26.Russia, one of the biggest…

The UK fuel crisis made headlines around the world. And the country is trolled, maybe on social media but certainly on Russian media. Presenters and journalists, at times smiling, compared it to Soviet Russia where the…

UNITED NATIONS (PA) - China's ambassador to the UN on Tuesday expressed hope that President Joe Biden will translate his statement that the United States does not intend to start a "new cold war" with China in action, saying it should…

Former JNU student union president and CPI leader Kanhaiya Kumar is the latest in a long line of left-wing leaders to join Congress or form a strong association with the party.In fact, two-time Bihar MP Shakeel Ahmed and Rajya Sabha's…

In July, Boris Plotkin of the technology team at Gap Inc. celebrated his 30th birthday with the company. He began his career in July 1991 as a Production Support Analyst before taking on various positions…

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What Happened September 26th in New York Ranger HistoryOn that date in 1972, Canada and the Soviet Union played in Game 7 of the Summit Series, with Canada winning 4-3 to tie the series at 3-3-1. The New York Rangers team made key…

UNITED NATIONS (PA) - Russia, China, Pakistan and the United States are…

Mr. Editor,The dust has settled on the current politico-ideological disposition of the PPP / C. The admission of former party secretaries-general Donald Ramotar and Clement Rohee that the PPP / C is no longer a Marxist / Leninist party…

Prime Minister Indira Gandhi strongly defended the decision to recognize the Heng Samrin government in Kampuchea. Speaking to a press conference in Jakarta, she recalled that her party had decided to recognize the Heng Samrin…

As all eyes were on the besieged Capitol Hill on Jan.6 and the United States slipped into an extreme domestic crisis, a secret crisis was swelling with China, according to new book revelations by reporters Bob Woodward and Robert Costa.…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Azerbaijan on Thursday lodged a complaint with the highest United Nations court accusing neighboring Armenia of a "policy of ethnic cleansing" against Azerbaijanis.The case was brought before the International…

The founder of the Jane Collective criticized the Texas abortion law, saying it is emblematic of a "big brother state". The Jane Collective was an…

Today it's Wednesday September 22 the 265th day of 2021. There are 100 days left in the year. Fall arrives…

President Biden, battling growing doubts from US allies about his commitment to work with them, used his first United Nations speech on Tuesday to call for "relentless diplomacy" on climate change, the pandemic and efforts to mitigate the…

Between 1891 and 1973, over thirty-seven million M1891 three-line rifles were produced, making it one of the most manufactured firearms of the 20th century. Today, most gun enthusiasts and gun historians simply call him the Mosin-Nagant.…

TEHRAN - A consultant in European and international affairs believes that the EU is absent and powerless in the face of unilateral US sanctions against other countries. "The European Union's position is absent and powerless on US…

The first thing I did when I left the bar was stack crates out of an alleyway, so yes, Peripeteia is an immersive sim. You play as an ex-cyborg soldier named Marie, reduced to odd jobs and mercenary jobs in a town where the main source…

It's quite a journey - nearly 6,400 kilometers - from Tomsk, Russia, one of the oldest cities in freezing Siberia, to sunny Netanya, and the cultural distance is just as vast.But in 2015, Arkady Mayofis, founder and owner of…

Michael adkins We should always think twice before insulting someone. My daughter's teenage grandson recently put his hand on my shoulder and said, “Daddy, you are bald. I replied, “Grandson, don't…

Governor Spencer Cox moderates a discussion with Senator Mitt Romney on Friday, September 17. Romney spoke at the Hinckley Center and urged Americans to protect their constitutional freedoms against authoritarianism. (Addie…

Sep 18, 2021ANDREI GROMYKO. And that was during the Cold War, a period of relatively calm American political analysis. To what extent does Gromyko's observation seem more applicable to the first eight months of Joe Biden's presidency.…

While the American, British and French allies all maintained airports in the West Berlin enclave, these were closed to West German air traffic, military or otherwise, due to Four-Power regulations governing the divided city. Not…

AdvertisingAs the Taliban inflict a humiliating defeat on the United States after 20 years of nation-building efforts, with the rapid collapse of the Afghan government, some are desperate for a scapegoat. Since the announcement of the…

Subscribe to our newsletter special edition for a daily update on the coronavirus pandemic. A senior White House adviser has escalated the war of words between the Biden administration and Republican…

Submitted by Pad Finnigan. In the previous article, we read how the Clover Park School District proposes to inject race and racism into their curriculum, supposedly to improve students' academic performance. But why? We know the…

Belarusian Kremlin-backed dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka has been hit with sanctions for his brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests. (Pavel Orlovsky / BelTA via REUTERS)…

WASHINGTON DC - Today, in a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, US Energy Secretary Jennifer M. Granholm and Ukrainian Energy Minister Herman Galushchenko signed a joint declaration…

Hundreds of Afghans desperate to flee the Taliban continued to crowd Kabul airport on Friday, even after one of the deadliest bombings in the country's history, as the death toll in the previous day's explosion was approaching 200 with…

By comparison, the business in Kabul doesn't look exactly like the Berlin Airlift, in which food was flown to West Berlin, rather than people being evacuated.Update August 24, 2021, 8:07 PM ETBut as a model of humanitarian and political…

NOTtoo long ago, Pakistan and Afghanistan were called Af-Pak: two countries hugging each other, doomed to live and die together. You couldn't choose your neighbors, we were told. Geography, we were taught, was our destiny.There has been…

The United States signed its first arms deal with the Soviet Union in 1972. Since then, there has always been a warning that if its opponent in Moscow does not live up to the terms of the deal, the US United had to preserve the ability to…

For decades, I have exhibited on my shelves two minor pieces of Gandhara sculpture, a stylized head of Buddha and a fragment of a stone frieze, an art form that developed in the northern region. -western Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan…

There is an old Soviet tale about Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. At lunchtime, he retired to his office and looked at the world map. The map was centered on the Soviet Union. The old Bolshevik was staring at him as if it were a giant…

For more than seven decades, very credible witnesses and sophisticated sensors observed mysterious objects fly in a way that defy easy explanation. But until recently the old presidents, High intelligence officials, members of Congress…

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A recent Loudoun County School Board meeting was violently disrupted in part because of Critical Race…

Kazan eventually won the title of Russia's “third capital” from the city of Nizhny Novgorod in 2009, although it still lags behind Moscow and St. Petersburg in terms of living standards.…