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2 days ago · Sergey Nepobedimy, designed the first supersonic anti-tank guided missile Sturm Sergey Mosin and other Soviet rocket weaponry; Aleksandr Porokhovschikov, inventor of Vezdekhod (the first prototype continuous track tank, or tankette, and the first continuous track amphibious ATV)
3 days ago · In 1961, in protest against plans to build a sports stadium on the site, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, then a young Soviet poet, wrote a moving poem, Baby Yar, which begins No gravestone stands on Baby Yar; Only coarse earth heaped roughly on the gash:
- Michael Berenbaum
Sep 26, 2024 · Vladimir Yevtushenkov is a cofounder of AFK Sistema, which has investments in Russia's largest cellular operator MTS, online retailer Ozon and healthcare chain Medsi. Yevtushenkov was hit by...
3 days ago · Russia is open to a compromise that could see its troops leave Georgia’s Moscow-backed breakaway regions, the country’s top diplomat has claimed. Speaking Sunday at a press conference at the U.N. General Assembly in New York, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov insisted that an agreement to resolve the decades-long standoff in the ...
3 days ago · In September 1999, a series of explosions hit four apartment blocks in the Russian cities of Buynaksk, Moscow, and Volgodonsk, killing more than 300, injuring more than 1,000, and spreading a wave of fear across the country.
3 days ago · Among the earliest Soviet newspapers with a countrywide circulation, it attracted some of the most important journalists and writers in the USSR. Among its regular contributors were such notable poets as Vladimir Mayakovsky and Yevgeny Yevtushenko.
3 days ago · Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev[ a ][ b ] (born 14 September 1965) is a Russian politician who has been serving as deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia since 2020. [ 2 ] . Medvedev was also the third president of Russia from 2008 to 2012 and prime minister of Russia from 2012 to 2020. [ 3 ]
