In Livonian War …prolonged military conflict, during which Russia unsuccessfully fought Poland, Lithuania, and Sweden for control of greater Livonia—the area including Estonia, Livonia, Courland, and the island of Oesel—which was ruled by the Livonian branch of the Teutonic Knights (Order of...
Syria’s civil war: What is going on and who is involved in this rapidly changing situation? Conflict started 13 years ago during Arab Spring and escalated to involve opposition groups, extremists and world powers Sun Dec 08 2024 - 09:31 Ireland’s five biggest problems: War, climate change...
During the Muscovite period (c.14th–17th century), the Slavic and Byzantine cultural substrates were enriched and modified by Asiatic influences carried by theMongolhordes. Finally, in the modern period (since the 18th century), the cultural heritage of westernEuropewas added to the Russian ...
By Terje M London, December 5,1864 Yesterday, an obviously emotional British foreign minister declared that a coalition of concerned world powers have decided to intervene in the American Civil War. The intervention is a dramatic new development in this war, which has lasted almost four years. I...
Montreal Canadiens executive vice president of hockey operations Jeff Gorton says he has “no concern” about members of the Canadiens’ front office travelling to Russia during the country’s war in Ukraine. December 21 Man charged in Moscow with killing a Russian general in a bombing claimed ...
A general view taken on February 5, 2024 shows empty seats (R) in the plenary hall of the Hungarian Parliament in Budapest during an extraordinary sitting at the opposition's request to debate Sweden's NATO bid. Representatives of the governing Fidesz party led by Hungarian Prime Minister Orban...
Starmer only gave permission for Ukraine to use the missiles deep inside Russian territory after Joe Biden approved the use of American-supplied ATACMS in the same way. "The only unpleasant conversation I had with British officials a coupl...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo: “I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole. We had entire training courses. It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment.”–Pompeo said this at an event at Texas A&M University on April 15, 2019. Here is the official State...
Russo-Swedish relations were settled during theNapoleonicera. When Napoleon met with Alexander at Tilsit, he gave the latter a free hand to proceed against Sweden. After two years of war, in which the Russians did not always fare well, the Swedish governmentcededFinlandto the tsar in 1809. ...
The act that prompted Marina Ovsyannikova's initial house arrest was when she held up a poster during a live on-air nightly broadcast that read, in a mix of Russian and English, "No war" and "Stop the war, don't believe the propaganda, you are being lied to. Russians against war."...