Moscow's Metropol: elegance to revolution and back again
MOSCOW (AP) - In 1991, as the Soviet Union collapsed around him, Alexander Mishakov was summoned to a place that was off-limits to most citizens - the Metropol Hotel.Newly graduated from a technical...
View ArticleKremlin rewriting World War II history
Sept. 1 marks the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland — an event that heralded the beginning of World War II. Two years later, the United States entered the war as an ally of both...
View ArticleMolotov-Ribbentrop Pact: A bad deal, 80 years ago
Some 80 years ago, on Aug. 23, 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, formally known as the Treaty of non-aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet...
View ArticleMysterious missile explosion in Russia raises questions
MOSCOW (AP) - A deadly explosion at a naval weapons testing range in northwestern Russia. A brief spike in radiation levels. An evacuation order issued, then rescinded, for a nearby village.Last week's...
View ArticleWhy the heroic deeds of the Soviet people must not be forgotten
As we approach the 80th anniversary since the beginning of World War II, the U.S. media begins to hype up another round of its Russophobic campaign. The goal is to equally split the blame for the...
View ArticleBaltics mark 30th anniversary of key anti-Soviet protest
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) - The three Baltic countries on Friday marked the 30th anniversary of the 1989 "Baltic Way," a historic anti-Soviet protest that involved nearly 2 million people forming a human...
View ArticleWhat the Hong Kong protesters know
Few Americans today remember what is known as “Black Ribbon Day,” when more than 2 million people in Communist Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania joined hands in an unbroken human chain that stretched some...
View ArticleAP Explains: Why does Medvedev’s visit to Cuba matter?
HAVANA (AP) - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev arrives Thursday in Cuba, which was long the former Soviet Union’s principal ally in Latin America. The visit is seen by some as confirmation of a...
View ArticlePutin rejects blaming Stalin for start of World War II
MOSCOW (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has rejected claims that Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union share responsibility for starting World War II.Two weeks after Germany invaded Poland on Sept....
View ArticleBerlin Wall's fall stokes memories of lost hopes in Russia
MOSCOW (AP) - When the Berlin Wall fell, the Soviet Union stepped back, letting East Germany's communist government collapse and then quickly accepting German unification. Russian President Vladimir...
View ArticleVladimir Putin: Russia hypersonic weapon development leads world
MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia has got a strong edge in designing new weapons and that it has become the only country in the world to deploy hypersonic weapons.Speaking at a...
View ArticlePutin says Russia is leading the world in hypersonic weapons
MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia has got a strong edge in designing new weapons and that it has become the only country in the world to deploy hypersonic weapons.Speaking...
View ArticleAdd Iran's leadership to ash heap of history
Addressing the British Parliament in 1982, President Ronald Reagan outlined a plan for placing the Soviet Union and Marxism-Leninism on the “ash heap of history.” It is an objective President Trump...
View ArticleRussia aims to prosecute destruction of war monuments abroad
MOSCOW (AP) - Russia’s defense minister called on law enforcement officials Wednesday to consider filing criminal charges against representatives of other countries where World War II memorials...
View ArticleAP Sportlight
May 61895 - Jockey James “Soup” Perkins guides Halma to a wire-to-wire victory in the Kentucky Derby. The 15-year-old joins fellow African-American jockey Alonzo Clayton as the youngest rider to win...
View ArticleMiles Yu, Mike Pompeo adviser, helps form China policy
Miles Yu began life in rural China amid the madness of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, when Red Guard zealots roamed the country trashing and killing all vestiges of tradition and capitalism in the...
View ArticlePutin insists on recognition of USSR's WWII role
MOSCOW (AP) - In a lengthy article in a U.S. journal, Russian President Vladimir Putin insists on recognition of the Soviet Union as the prime defeater of Nazi Germany, criticizes Poland’s actions...
View ArticlePoland says Putin falsifies history to weaken Western allies
WARSAW, Poland (AP) - The Polish government says that Russian President Vladimir Putin is manipulating World War II-era history in a way that whitewashes Soviet crimes and accuses him of doing it as...
View ArticleVladimir Putin uses World War II parade to boost support before vote
MOSCOW (AP) — A massive Russian military parade postponed by the coronavirus pandemic will roll through Red Square this week to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, even...
View ArticleRemembering Fred Singer and Dennis Avery, extreme environmental science critics
There are a lucky few who take on the conventional wisdom of the time and then live long enough to see their skeptics and critics admit they were wrong. Most of the American Founders were so...
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