At a Democratic Party fundraiser, U.S. President Joe Biden referred to Russian hints about the possible use of nuclear weapons and invoked the Cuban missile crisis of sixty years ago "We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis."
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last president of the Soviet Union, died on August 30 at age 91. He supported a free press and initiated cultural exchanges, with a preference for American jazz music.
What did happen to fabulously wealthy Russian oligarchs following 1917 revolution. Writes Nikolay Shevchenko For many people studying Russian history, it