Everything can happen again: 77% of Russians do not know when and whom the Bolsheviks overthrew
On January 15, VTsIOM published its assessment of Russians' knowledge of history — the results turned out to be contradictory ...
‘Bronshtein in the Bronx’ Review: A Tall Trotsky Tale
The spy novelist Robert Littell spins a yarn based on socialist revolutionary Leon Trotsky’s brief 1917 sojourn in New York ...
Wall Street Journal28d
‘The Last Tsar’ Review: The Romanovs Reconsidered
The story itself, broadly familiar from popular treatments over the years, is well told by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa in “The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and ... enter World War I in ...
The Canadian Press on MSN11d
A ceremony to grant US citizenship celebrated immigration even as the debate around it swirls
Thirty immigrants became U.S. citizens in a ceremony at the Kansas Statehouse on Monday. The event on Monday celebrated the contributions of immigrants. (AP Video: Nicholas Ingram) ...
The New York Times29d
U.S. Ambassador Says China Is Aligned With ‘Agents of Disorder’
Nicholas Burns, the top U.S. diplomat in Beijing ... China allowed the recovery of the remains of World War II-era American military personnel missing in action. He also praised China’s recent ...
On This Day: Manchester United players among 23 dead in Munich plane crash
On Feb. 6, 1958, a British airliner crashed upon takeoff from a Munich, Germany, airport. The crash killed 23 people, ...
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James Herriot (Alf Wight)’s Real World War II Experience
What was the World War II experience of James Alfred (“Alf ... and much more about wartime living and vetting in Yorkshire. Nicholas Ralph as James Herriot, departing Glasgow for his first ...
They Stole Yogi Berra’s World Series Rings. Then They Did Something Really Crazy.
O n a Wednesday morning in October 2014, in a garage in the woods of Pennsylvania, Tommy Trotta tried on some new jewelry: a ...
Voice of America25d
Patriarch of Russian Orthodoxy preaches ‘biblical battle’ between West, Russia, lies about WWI
The Soviet Union played a pivotal role in the Allied victory in World War II (WWII), but Russia lost in World ... The following day, a delegation visited Nicholas II at his headquarters in Pskov ...
Daily Mail27d
We're already at war and no one in Britain is safe. This is the appalling truth about the threat we face: A chilling warning from Sir Winston Churchill's grandson NICHOLAS ...
By the standards of many other parts of the world, we are blessed ... We think we are not yet at war with Russia, but Russia is at war with us and the whole of Western Europe.
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Bombshell theory Anastasia Romanov did escape Russian revolution to the West
A Russian author has sensationally claimed Grand Duchess Anastasia - the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II - may have survived ... to the end of the First World War. "Why such mercy on the ...
NBC News27d
Lessons learned from trying to thaw icy relations between rivals U.S. and China
It “remains a very challenging, often very contentious and in a long-term way deeply competitive relationship,” Ambassador Nicholas ... of World War II, working to various degrees with Russia ...