Russia-Ukraine War, war between Russia and Ukraine that began in February 2014 with the covert invasion of the Ukrainian autonomous republic of Crimea by disguised Russian troops. The conflict expanded in April 2014 when Russians and local proxy forces seized territory in Ukraine’s Donbas region;...
(Brazil,Russia,India, andChina) was first used by Goldman Sachs economist Jim O’Neill to describe the four economies that could, if growth were maintained, dominate the global economy by 2050. Representatives of the BRIC countries first began meeting informally during the 2006 meeting of the...
Latvia and Lithuania], the five Nordic ones [Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden] and the Netherlands. According to aTimescolumnby Edward Lucas, these 10 countries have a combined GDP and defence budget greater than Russia.
This is a less well-known story to English readers than the battlefields of France and Belgium, and the focus on the war from the point of view of the Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires makes for very interesting reading. Russia lost more than 2.3 million soldiers in the war; the Austro...
Secretary, Sir Edward Grey, signed a secret pact with the Russian Ambassador in London, England, United Kingdom giving Russia the right to post-war control of Constantinople and the Turkish Straits, in return for recognition of British and French aspirations in the remainder of the Ottoman ...
was told by none other than mafia boss Nicola Gentile about the realities of power in postwar Italy. Gentile’s revelations and information provided by other agents pointed to a “secret government” running Italy through an elite masonic lodge: P-2, itself a tool of the CIA and NATO’s in...
During the 19th century, Gypsies became prominent as musicians, chiefly in Hungary, Spain, and Russia. Hungarian nobility developed a tradition of having a Gypsy minstrel next to the host of a banquet to play for his guests. Before long, Gypsy bands proliferated, always including a virtuoso vio...
JOE BIDEN STILL TRYING TO MAKE PEACE BETWEEN UKRAINE AND RUSSIA IMPOSSIBLE ON HIS WAY OUT THE DOOR. Joe is garbage. And remember, he’s been declared incompetent to stand trial for his many crimes, yet he’s supposedly competent enough to sit in the Oval Office. ...
Although relations between Russia and America have improved somewhat since 1991, the year the Cold War is said to have ended, the FSB and other Russian groups have drawn renewed attention after allegations of meddling in the 2016 and 2020 U.S. presidential elections. In recent years, the FSB...
The Vikings were the people of Norway, Denmark, and Sweden and from 750-1100 they changed everywhere they landed in their longships. They settled from America to Russia and travelled from the Arctic to Africa, not bad for a bunch of lawless raiders. By 1000 A.D. Old Norse (or the Dani...