The decision of the Belarusian athletes Kristina Timanovskaya and Yana Maksimova stirred up another story in the memory. Back in the days of the Soviet Union, one of the athletes tried not to return to his homeland. What came of this, said the edition of Radio Liberty. Back in 1976, at the Summer Olympics in Montreal (Canada) in ...
The US State Department does not recommend that Americans visit Belarus, since this country has the highest level of danger - fourth. This is stated on the State Department website. The State Department warns: Belarus is unsafe due to arbitrary enforcement of laws and the risk of detention, as well as due to COVID-19.…
Since 1943, Soviet intelligence services (following a direct order from Stalin) have been trying to install listening devices in the office of the US Ambassador to the USSR William Harriman, writes the author of the “History and Culture of Eurasia” channel on Yandex.Zen. The wiretap needed a nose bleed, because Stalin wanted...
The CIA has declassified details of its Cold War spy missions that used pigeons. They were trained to take part in secret missions to photograph secret objects in the USSR. Writes about this BBC. The declassified documents also claim that the raven was used to drop ...
While the United States was conducting space experiments on monkeys, in the USSR, after long discussions, the choice fell on dogs, says Russia Beyond. The experiments, which were supposed to show whether manned space flight is possible, began in the USSR and the USA in one ...
British actor and producer Sean Connery, who became famous throughout the world as the standard agent 007 - James Bond, tried to try himself in completely different images in an attempt not to become a hostage to one role. He twice starred in Soviet cinema, where he...
The Pepsi Cola Company first contacted the new and still mysterious Land of the Soviets in 1938. The company really wanted to get ahead of its main competitor - The Coca-Cola Company, says Maxim Online. So The Pepsi Cola Company...
In 1986, American teenager Jeff Henigson was diagnosed with brain cancer. Doctors predicted that he had two years to live. When a charity volunteered to grant his wish, he asked to travel to Moscow to discuss a world without...
The son of the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev died from a gunshot wound to the head, the Rhode Island Coroner's Office reported on Monday, June 22. What is known about the death of Sergei Khrushchev? BBC reports. Sergei Khrushchev died on June 18 in his home in the city ...
On the eve of the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany, Russia and the United States again argued about the role of the USSR in World War II and its outcome. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) angrily responded to a White House tweet that named ...