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Chasing the Sea by Tom Bissell
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Tom Bissell

Five Sacred Spaces The Uzbeks are a simple people, with whom one gets most readily acquainted, though they speak in a curious tone of voice, as if they despised or ...
( Category: Asian March 7,2020 )
Behind Putin's Curtain by Stephan Orth
epub |eng | 2019-03-06 | Author:Stephan Orth

The tour of the museum begins in a movie theater. A technically elaborately produced, wide-screen animated film condenses a thousand years of Russian history into eight minutes. From Ivan the ...
( Category: Russia March 7,2020 )
Collected Works, Volume 3 by V. I. Lenin;
epub |eng | | Author:V. I. Lenin;

8) The Metal Trades. The Pavlovo Industries The celebrated Pavlovo lock and cutlery industries cover the whole of Gorbatov Uyezd, Nizhni-Novgorod Gubernia, and Murom Uyezd, Vladimir Gubernia. These industries originated ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 6,2020 )
Putin and the Oligarch by Sakwa Richard;
epub |eng | 2014-02-24 | Author:Sakwa, Richard;

‌The system exposed There were persistent rumours that on 25 December Danilkin had been escorted to the Moscow City Court, with the imputation that he was then instructed on the ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union March 6,2020 )
Sergei Prokofiev A Biography by Robinson Harlow
epub |eng | 2018-12-09 | Author:Robinson, Harlow

He was irresistibly drawn to his native country... During our life abroad, I had always felt that Sergei Sergeevich was tied by unbreakable bonds to Russia... After our numerous trips ...
( Category: Classical March 6,2020 )
In Putin's Footsteps : Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones (9781250163240) by Khrushcheva Nina; Tayler Jeffrey
epub |eng | | Author:Khrushcheva, Nina; Tayler, Jeffrey

7 NOVOSIBIRSK A STORY OF SCIENCE AND SERENDIPITY TIME ZONE: MSK+4; UTC+7 “Can you fix a town in twenty-four hours?” “Yes, we can.” “How?” “Putin just has to say that ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union March 6,2020 )
RUSSIA IN THE SHADOWS by H. G. Wells
epub |eng | 2017-12-08 | Author:H. G. Wells [Wells, H. G.]

The Creative Effort in Russia Table of Contents In the previous three chapters I have tried to give my impression of the Russian spectacle as that of a rather ramshackle ...
( Category: Essays March 5,2020 )
Miracle in Lake Placid by John Gilbert
epub |eng | 2019-03-01 | Author:John Gilbert

CHAPTER 11 Time for a Comeback JIM CRAIG HAD NOT BEEN at his sharpest throughout the Blue Pool games, but he was sharp when he had to be in the ...
( Category: Hockey March 2,2020 )
The Romanovs 1818-1959 by John Van der Kiste
epub |eng | 2013-07-15 | Author:John Van der Kiste [Kiste, John Van der]

9 ‘Morally high and sensible’ Well aware that the least lapse in vigilance could cost him his life as it had that of his father, the Tsar found it difficult ...
( Category: Royalty March 2,2020 )
The KGB's Poison Factory by Boris Volodarsky
epub |eng | | Author:Boris Volodarsky

In the Frontline Club near the Paddington Station Sasha, speaking through interpreter, addressed the gathering: The question was asked here who killed Anna Politkovskaya. I can give an answer. It ...
( Category: Espionage March 1,2020 )
Western Mainstream Media and the Ukraine Crisis by Oliver Boyd-Barrett
epub |eng | | Author:Oliver Boyd-Barrett

Fired at from the air The BUK narrative was challenged by opposing claims from the Russian Ministry of Defense that a Ukrainian SU-25 (some sources said two) had trailed MH17 ...
( Category: National & International Security February 29,2020 )
Investigating the Russian Mafia by Joseph D. Serio
epub |eng | 2012-08-20 | Author:Joseph D. Serio [Serio, Joseph D.]

Forbidden to have a family (postoyannaya sem’ya); Forbidden to take up arms on behalf of the state; Forbidden to cooperate with authorities as a witness or victim; Obliged to contribute ...
( Category: Criminology February 29,2020 )
ADOLF HITLER AND JOSEPH STALIN: Two Predator Leaders During The World War II (The Greatest People Book 1) by The History Hour
epub |eng | 2019-01-24 | Author:The History Hour [Hour, The History]

Beso was a violent man, a raging alcoholic and an abusive husband and father. He beat Iosef repeatedly and often beat Keke in Iosef’s presence. Ultimately Keke took Iosef and ...
( Category: Military February 28,2020 )
From Chernobyl with Love by Katya Cengel
epub |eng | | Author:Katya Cengel

19 Children of Tomorrow After meeting at Chernobyl we had to keep it epic. Our first date was on New Year’s Eve—at the start of the new millennium. I thought ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers February 28,2020 )
The Crisis Years by Michael Beschloss
epub |eng | 2016-06-13 | Author:Michael Beschloss

In late September, avoiding known SAM sites, U-2s twice flew over eastern Cuba, the Isle of Pines, and a portion of western Cuba. These were supplemented by other missions along ...
( Category: Diplomacy February 28,2020 )

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