Many people think that “sniping” is mainly about shooting. However, Yuriy says, the sniper’s first role is reconnaissance. While observing the terrain from high spots – hills or rooftops — Yuriy told his comrades about suspicious persons who could be a sabotage group and had...
We arrived in Austria in mid-February to clear weather and a decent snowpack in the high mountains despite nearly no snow in the valleys. As with 2019, the lack of funding and the dispersed nature of our group meant that many racers were meeting each other for the first time at the Muni...
Many internet companies have behaved in exactly the same way since the dot-com boom. The prospectors of internet wealth lobbied for, or simply took of their own volition, numerous government benefits in their scramble to capture those frontier markets. For years, the Federal Trade Commission h...
Many videos offlash mobssuddenly appearing in public places have been shared online, including one fromNational Dance Dayin Boise, Idaho. Scientific research intomicrobiomesskyrocketed in both 2011 and 2013, leading scientists to name it one of itsbreakthroughsof both years. ...
Also, I still do not understand many catch phrases in Russian. Before the final exam at Moscow State University, my supervisor told me with a smile: "Нипуханипера!" (nor fluff, nor a feather). I thought it was a wish for good luck. Wasn't that logical to assume? So...
of the Russian president is called the Federal Protective Service (official name in English –‘Federal Guard Service of the Russian Federation’). Its staff records and financing are partly classified, but half-official sources say it numbers over 50,000 employees in total. Why so many?
“Russia was more unstable and had more serious internal dilemmas than many other great powers, and so the degree to which the shock of war resulted in chaos was correspondingly more intense,” explainsSteven Miner, a history professor at Ohio University who specializes in Russia, the Soviet Uni...
"The Arab leaders are anxious not to aggravate the British in any way but the question is whether so many men, possibly ten thousand of them at present in this country, with their bitter hatred of the Jews and their excitable character, whose sole raison d'etre is the killing of Jews, ...
Though Christianity had won many converts since Olga's rule, Vladimir had remained a thoroughgoing pagan, taking eight hundred concubines (besides numerous wives) and erecting pagan statues and shrines to gods. He may have attempted to reform Slavic paganism by establishing the thunder-god, Perun...
president after he vowed to “stop wars” in a victorious speech Wednesday morning. After almost three years of war, officials in Kyiv acknowledged that Ukraine would now likely have to look to its allies elsewhere in the West for support as it seeks to ...