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...
1914, the Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand was assassinated by a young Yugoslav in Sarajevo. Austria blamed Serbia for the assassination and was determined to seek revenge. Both sides looked for support from their respective allies, Germany and Russia. This led to showdown between the ...
In February 2014, Vladimir Putin decided to annex Crimea, prompting a diplomatic crisis between Russia and the west. In response, the US Treasury imposed sanctions on VTB Capital’s parent company, VTB Bank, as well as some of its important state-owned clients such as Rostec, severely curtaili...
Trade in China, Japan and South Korea than the trade between Britain, France and Russia, our three countries are close neighbors, and many in the cultural history, we ought to have in the context of the current international financial crisis, further enhance exchanges and cooperation, we should...
On the positive side, Brexit ensured that the U.K. can make its owntradedeals with other nations like the U.S. It also is now free of European Union rules and regulations regarding imports and exports.8 As part of the Brexit agreement, the United Kingdom left the border open between No...
Oil and the Fate of Modern Iran At the dawn of the twentieth century, Americans would have recognized Iran as an important imperial buffer between Russia and India, twice the size of Texas and famous mainly for exporting Persian rugs.
(traitors to socialism), were considered enemies. Incidentally, Albanian communism was much darker and tougher than the Brezhnev-era USSR. Nevertheless, as it naturally happened in Russia and some other countries, in thirty years, the memory of a part of the population laundered and cleansed the...
due to the World War I, Takeda began sales of its own products. Among these were Calmotin®(a sedative), Novoroform®(an analgesic) and Lodinon®(an injectable form of D-glucose). Takeda steadily expanded its pharmaceutical business and even began exports to the U.S., Russia and ...
The security apparatus becomes identical to the state. Due to a chance of history or geography, the same areas that fed the fur trade of medieval Novgorod and Moscow, have provided the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia with their means for existence....
China and Sri Lanka signed a “Five-Year Trade Agreement with Regard to Rice and Rubber Exchange” in Beijing. In 1953, two contracts were signed regarding rice exchange for rubber between the two countries. In the following 20 years, COFCO involved in the execution of “Rice Exchange for Ru...