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Vladimir Putin claims collapse of Soviet Union forced him to work as a taxi driver
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…
Azerbaijan celebrates 18th anniversary of death of national leader Heydar Aliyev
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…
Victory Month: United States, China and Soviet Union in South Asian Theater of War
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…
Washington Post editorial page editor Fred Hiatt dies at 66
“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 an hour trying to make me laugh with…
Donald Nuechterlein: Russia is testing the United States and Europe again | Don Nuechterlein
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…
Alexander Dolitsky: The Life of Yuriy Sokolov, the Siberian Gulag, and the Dangers of Government…
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…
U.S. and Russian foreign ministers to meet as tensions in Ukraine soar
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…
The two peace missions of Europe by Kemal Derviş
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,…
Valley News – Column: A brief throwback to the 1950s
Posted: 11/26/2021 22:10:27 PM Modified: 11/26/2021 22:10:11 PMI recently received an email from a friend, a heart cry from a beautiful gardener: "Climate change, COVID-19, conspiracy theories and…
Baltic state lawmakers to visit Taiwan amid threats from China
ANI | Update: November 25, 2021 4:55 PM STI Taipei , November 25 (ANI): A dozen Lithuanian, Estonian and Latvian…