During the lifting of the siege of Leningrad on January 23, 1944, Senior Lieutenant Mironov led two companies into an attack and drove the enemy from the defensive line near the Gatchina-Vladimirskaya railway embankment. The commander was wounded twice, but did not leave the battlefield. Mirono...
Afghanistan is the only country in modern history that has been at war for almost half a century; it has been haunted with violence, bloodshed, and displacement since 1979. How did it all start? Are those wars really ending? Read more: Could Afghanistan finally be on the...
The chart below holds a magnifying glass over the reserve currencies that were all bunched up at the bottom of the above chart. The yen has backed off a little from its surge that had started in 2015, and peaked at 5.9% in Q4 2019 and Q1 2020. In Q2, it ticked down to 5.7...
On Sunday, Zelenskyy did not specify the number of jets that had already been delivered, but said that more were expected. He also conceded that more pilots needed to be trained to use them. The arrival of the first combat aircraft in Ukraine nonetheless marks a notable achievement — Kyiv ...
So how did these countries escape the grip of Hollywood? And how far has Russia traveled in this direction over the past year? Read more War, fatalism, even some heavy drinking: Here are the modern movies you should watch to understand the mysterious ‘Russian soul’ ...
Ironically, it was in 1989, when Yugoslavia won Eurovision for the first time, that things really did begin to change. What had been a contest for Western European nations plus Yugoslavia, expanded in the same way the EU expanded after the fall of the Berlin Wall? The Nineties saw Yugoslavi...
UEFA's first president, Denmark's Ebbe Schwartz, asked the subcommittee to rediscuss the project during the Congress lunch break, suggesting that the start of the competition be put back to 1959 – an idea that the subcommittee did not wholly endorse. There were calls from delegates for the ...
Soviet engineers also developed compact washing machines that did not take up much space and were suitable for small apartments. The first model was called Malyutka (“baby” in Russian), and all subsequent varieties of this type of washing machine were unofficially referred to by the same name...
"Dr. Strangelove" (1964) is an iconic satire about the consequences of nuclear war and arms race. If you want to get as much out of it as possible, there are a few things you need to keep in mind before watching: It is important to remember that Dr. Strangelove is a movie from 19...
Amateurfootage of the testy exchangeat a meeting between Sergei Tsivilyov, governor of the Kemerovo region, and locals in the city of Novokuznetsk was posted online as early as March 5. The website of Tsivilyov's administration makes no mention of the meeting, a...