When The United States Broke Into 2 Countries, Had 2 Presidents, 2 Flags
In 1861, when Republican leader Abraham Lincoln was on his way to becoming President of the United States of America, the ...
What to Know About the Election in Belarus Featuring ‘Europe’s Last Dictator’
With many of his political opponents either jailed or exiled abroad, Alexander Lukashenko, dubbed “Europe’s last dictator,” ...
Polls open in Belarus presidential election with chance of change at the top slim
Voting started following a period of almost non-existent election fever. In the capital Minsk, there’s an almost total ...
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The failed Russian revolution
The anti-Yeltsin banner and Soviet Union flag-waving rebels were heading towards ... Yeltsin’s army was outside the Kremlin and the White House. In the daylight, the tanks fired at the upper ...
'Europe's last dictator': Belarus election set to extend Lukashenko's 30-year rule
Belarusians will vote on Sunday in a presidential election that is all but certain to see President Alexander Lukashenko win ...
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Official visits with Mrs. B to China, India and the Soviet Union
Long lines of children carrying the flags of Ceylon ... that we enjoyed with the Soviet Union, we were not put up at one of the many state guest houses or the state-owned hotels, but were given ...
The Taipei Times27d
What you think you know about Ukraine is probably wrong
If not, those decisions would simply help the Kremlin achieve its goals of territorial conquest ... interludes of military defeat and imperial collapse. That was how the Soviet Union ended up covering ...
Alaska Dispatch News27d
Opinion: What you think you know about Ukraine is probably wrong
A relative cries holding a national flag over the coffin of a soldier ... That’s how the Soviet Union ended up covering a sixth of the planet’s landmass. It’s how Russia took an area the ...