Gilbert & George and the Communists — mischief in Moscow and Beijing
James Birch’s frank and funny memoir recalls the conceptual artists’ 1990 visits to China and the Soviet Union ...
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An appreciation: How physicist Evgeny Velikhov helped end the US-Soviet nuclear arms race
Evgeny Velikhov's many accomplishments in reducing the threat from nuclear weapons—during and after the Cold War—are ...
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Russia Is Taking Its T-90 Tank on the Road
The third-generation T-90 was developed at the tail end of the Cold War to replace the T-72, and it was seen as being equal in capabilities to the U.S. military's M1 Abrams and German-made Leopard 2.
On This Day: U.S., South Vietnam begin bombing raids on North
In 1965, U.S. and South Vietnamese planes made their first bombing raids on North Vietnam. In 1970, Japan put a satellite, ...
3 Baltic states disconnect from the Soviet-era grid to merge with the European energy system
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — The flow of electricity between the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and Russia ...
Trump Joins a Global War on ‘Gender Ideology’
He’s allying with a movement that stretches to Hungary and Poland — one that looks with skepticism not just on trans rights ...
Baltic nations count final hours to ending electricity ties to Russia
Nearly 3 1/2 decades after leaving the Soviet Union, the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania this weekend will flip a switch to end electricity-grid connections to neighboring Russia and ...
Why Pepsi Once Had More Submarines Than Most Countries
An unusual agreement made during the Cold War led to Pepsi receiving many submarines as a penance for selling its popular, ...
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Russian skating couple, world champions in 1990s, were on crashed US plane, TASS reports
MOSCOW :Russian ice skating coaches and former world champions Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were on board the American Airlines plane that crashed into the Potomac River in Washington on ...
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Growing Pressure on Dr. Yunus for Early Elections
When Sheikh Hasina came to power, the new generation (Gen Z) had not seen free, fair, and inclusive elections since 2008.