Picture: Place of work of the President of Ukraine Advisor to the Head of the President’s Workplace Mikhail Podolyak – – The advisor to the head of the President’s Office thinks that the reason for the Russian aggression is an endeavor to “restore” the USSR. The rationale for the Russian aggression lies in its need … Read more
The writer of the most famous drawing on the Berlin Wall has died – – Artist Dmitry Vrubel was born in the USSR and remaining Russia for Berlin in 2010. On August 14 he died in Germany. A brotherly kiss, just a kiss and also a kiss of dying, – these are variants of the … Read more
Jakarta – Uni Soviet or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is the former territory of the union of Eastern Europe and North and Central Asia. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, the area of the Soviet Union spanned an area of 22.4 million sq km from the Baltic and Black Seas to the Pacific … Read more
The Glienicke Bridge, which spans the Havel between Potsdam and West Berlin, has gone down in the history of the Cold War as an “agent bridge”. Since the construction of the wall on August 13, 1961, it has been located in the border area and is closely guarded. On their middle there is a white … Read more
Eastern Europe 6-8/2012)”>- – Eastern Europe 6-8/2012Manfred Sapper, Volker Weichsel (eds.)Berlin (BWV) 2012 [= Osteuropa 6-8/2012]560 p., 15 maps, 53 ills.Price: € 32.00ISBN: 978-3-8305-3110-4 Contents and abstracts in English contents Marija LipmanDouble polarizationFull textRussia’s divided society Vladimir Gel’manCracks in the systemRussia’s Authoritarianism 2012 Richard SakwaAnatomy of a blockageFull textStandstill in the dual state of Russia … Read more
In 1989 and the early 1990s, the hypnotist captivated millions of viewers in front of television screens from the then Soviet Union and the former socialist countries, including ours, writes “Labor.” His midnight sessions were declared healing, as was the water placed in front of the screen to recharge with the psychotherapist’s energy. Kashpirovsky claimed … Read more
Photo: Facebook / Mikhail Gokhman Human rights activist Arina Ginzburg dies at 84 – – At one time, she was persecuted by the authorities – she was suspended from teaching, house arrest was applied to her. In Paris, at the age of 84, a human rights activist and journalist, widow of dissident Alexander Ginzburg, Arina … Read more
The death of Baklanov was announced by the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin. Details of the death of the first deputy chairman of the USSR Defense Council and the Minister of General Machine Building of the USSR were not disclosed. “Today, Oleg Dmitrievich Baklanov, who was in charge of the rocket and space industry and … Read more