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...
“a sacrilege,” Russian Ambassador to Estonia Alexander Petrov told TASS. He added that the resolution would gravely affect the relations between both states. “This is a sacrilege. This is a blatantly unfriendly move by the Estonian parliament, which will undermine the atmosphere of our ...
In Sicily, journalist and TV host Pino Maniaci and judge Silvana Saguto teamed up to create an anti-Mafia coalition and bring down the region’s biggest crime bosses. But what happens when those who set out to catch the criminals turn out to be just as corrupt as the people they’re p...
Eastern Promises by the highly polarised director David Cronenberg explores themes of sex trafficking and the Russian mafia in this brilliant gritty London-based gangster film. Cronenberg, whose films are not always easy, but guaranteed compelling viewing, is well known for ...
No, in 1988 the Cold War was still on and the FBI tasked Salem with penetrating KGB and Russian mafia rings operating in New York City.But by 1991, things had changed. With the Cold War over, the Bureau’s priorities were shifting. Salem’s handler, Nancy Floyd, who appreciated his ...
Nearly 30 years earlier, Wasson and his Russian born wife had become fascinated by the different ways that societies deal with the mushroom, and they followed their lifelong obsession with these fungi, in all their glory, all over the globe. […][86]...
boom. 1. tensions between china and the us escalate into a new cold war—bordering on a hot one. 2. new technologies turn out to be a bust. they simply don’t bring the expected productivity increases or the big economic boosts. 3. russia devolves into a kleptocracy run by a mafia ...
The Trophy Committee of the state school art fete is set ready to pen a history by making 13,000 mementos and 57 big trophies.All the contestants in the fest who secure A grade and other grades are eligible to get mementos and all other over all winners as well as cultural fest parti...
It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the Nineteenth Century; and now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically the...