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Today in 1861,the Maryland House of Delegates voted against seceding from Union. Today in 1945, Adolph Hitler married his mistress Eva Braun. The next day, they committed suicide together in a German bunker. Today in1957,the SM-1, America’s first military nuclear power plant, was dedicated at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Today in 1980, legendary film director Alfred Hitchcock died at the age of 80. He was named “The Master of Suspense” and best known for his films: “Psycho” (1960), “Vert...

Art lovers first descended on the legendary cinema in 1909 for the French silent film ‘Georgette’. Later it hosted the world premiere of Sergei Eisenstein’s epic ‘Battleship Potemkin’.

Moscow’s Flagship McDonalds Undergoes a Renovation to Entice its Urban Clientele April 8, 2021 The newly updated Flagship McDonalds in Moscow. Photography by Andrew Meredith.  30 years since McDonalds first brought service with a smile to Moscow, the brand’s local flagship in the city’s bustling Pushkin Square underwent a renovation. Project lead Wayne Cheng, design director at Landini Associates, who happens to be a frequent collaborator with the global brand, ensured the restaurant c...

As a Soviet teenager growing in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv in the mid-1980s, I was a happy camper.  I was going to a new school near home, which was convenient, though I had to walk through deep mud as the road to school had not been completed. At the time there were many unfinished construction projects as the Soviet central planning system was evidently running out of money. My family was doing well; we had a washing machine and my father was driving a Lada. With five of my schoolmat...

Correspondent On Jan. 20, thousands of protesters braved temperatures 58 degrees below zero to occupy streets in Moscow and demand the release of an imprisoned anti-corruption political activist named Alexei Navalny who may be incarcerated for up to a year, according to CBS News. In consequence, over 5,100 of the demonstrators faced arrest across the nation, as reported by the Los Angeles Times. Moscow experiences violent protests in reaction to Navalny’s arrest and a culmination of his po...

Russia expels European diplomats over Navalny protests, defying the West For Russia’s domestic audience, the expulsions served as the latest example of what the Kremlin has described as Western interference fomenting public discontent. New York Times February 06, 2021 / 12:34 PM IST In Moscow, an estimated 15,000 demonstrators gathered in and around Pushkin Square in the city center, where clashes with police broke out and demonstrators were r...

Copy to Clipboard A protester holds a banner reading FREE NAVALNY as some 2,500 supporters of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny march in protest to demand his release from prison on January 23, 2021, in Berlin (Getty Images) In a bizarre judgment, Moscow’s Simonovsky District Court sentenced the Russian opposition figure and fierce Kremlin critic, Alexei Navalny, to 3.5 years in prison for violating the terms of his probation. The court gave him credit for about a year of the sente...

Bill Browder: Navalny has sparked something - the West shouldnt stand by Bill Browder ran the Hermitage Investment Fund and was Russias largest foreign investor. He has campaigned for justice for his lawyer Sergei Magnitsky and is considered persona non grata in Moscow. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Once the largest foreign investor in Russia through his Hermitage Fund, Bill Browder is now a global campaigner focussing the world’s attention on Vladimir Putin. His eff...

Russian Government Arrests Thousands During Alexei Navalny Protests Authorities in Russia have detained more than 5,000 people across 85 cities in the country on Sunday, as reported by CNN. According to the independent monitoring group OVD-Info, this is the most arrested since 2011, as the Russian government clamps down on protests demanding the release of politician Alexei Navalny, the jailed critic of Vladimir Putin. The second weekend of protests saw thousands of Russians from Vladivost...

Might Versus Right: Putin’s Bunker and the Protests Outside Putin’s willingness to resort to police batons has polarized society and radicalized those who are dissatisfied with his rule. Sergei Savostyanov / TASS “How many divisions does the pope have?” Josef Stalin is said to have once asked Winston Churchill, in a mocking reference to the Vatican’s lack of military strength. And so Vladimir Putin, in possession of a vast army of riot police, might ask of Russia...