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Восемьдесят лет назад, весной 1941 года, в силовых структурах недавно созданной Латвийской ССР произошли важные перестановки. Указом президиума Верховного Совета ЛССР народным комиссаром внутренних дел республики был назначен латыш Алфонс Новикс, а народным комиссаром государственной безопасности — еврей Семен Шустин. Этот...

Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event. (Photo credit: KEREM YUCEL/AFP via Getty Images) Throughout history, various presidents have asked the American people for their prayers in times of crisis, and have even called for a day to be devoted to prayer on a nationwide basis. Abraham Lincoln made such an appeal during the Civil War. The formal observance we know as the National Day of Prayer was instituted in 1952 under President Harry Truman. Since 1988, an official prayer breakfast has been scheduled annually, led by the president on the first Thursday of May. Joe Biden marked this year’s Nat...

Following is a transcript of this video; note that errors are possible: Rohin Francis, MBBS: "I'm in big trouble here. I'm in the International Space Station and I don't know anything about knees." There has been much talk of the societal cost of COVID. Economies across the world devastated, but no one's really talking about one of the most grievous losses of the entire pandemic: me missing my chance at weightlessness. Yes. Last year I was supposed to go to the European Space Agency for a ride in the infamous vomit comet, or the weightlessness simulator, after one of the parabolic flight inst...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, In his book, “Risk Society,” German Sociologist Ulrich Beck proposes a theory of reflexive modernity. Unlike other sociologists, Beck is far removed from the utopian vision of modernization as the continuous progress of industry and human thought. Namely he is concerned with the role of sc...

Join us to discuss the Biden administration's strategy for US-Russia relations and the challenges and opportunities presented in a changing global environment. Mark Beissinger is the Henry W. Putnam Professor of Politics at Princeton University.  Beissinger’s area of study is the former Soviet Union, with a focus on social movements, revolutions, nationalism, state-building, and imperialism.  In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, Beissinger is author or editor of five books, including most recently (with Stephen Kotkin) Historical Legacies of Communism in Russia and Eastern...