New York: One game away from his candidacy for what would have been the first Grand Slam on the men’s tennis calendar since 1969, world No.1 Novak Djokovic covered his face with a towel, hiding his tears during a tilting. For 27 Grand Slam matches in 2021 – on hardRead More →
Russia plans to use war games this week with Belarus to deepen control over its neighbor’s armed forces and increase military capabilities at the borders of NATO member states, Western defense officials have warned. The seven-day Zapad-2021 exercise, which began on Friday, involves tens of thousands of troops from bothRead More →
Contrary to the oft-told story of the Russian Revolution – that Lenin and the Bolsheviks swept the Czar from power in October 1917 and communism was born – Lucy Worsley reveals that a group of working women actually started the revolution in February. 1917. The Tsar, forced to abdicate longRead More →
BRUSSELS, Sept 2 (Reuters) – Poland and Latvia on Thursday expressed concern over impending joint Russian military maneuvers on Belarus’ western border, where the European Union accuses Minsk of pushing migrants to put pressure on the block. Poland, Latvia and Lithuania sealed off their eastern borders after several thousand peopleRead More →
Poland faces a “real threat” on the border with Belarus due to migration and a military exercise scheduled for later in September, according to a government spokesperson. Zapad 2021, or West 2021, is a large-scale joint exercise between Russia and Belarus. It will involve thousands of military personnel carrying outRead More →
VLADIVOSTOK, September 1. / TASS /. The population of Russia, by some estimates, could now reach 500 million people, without the country’s two disintegrations in the 20th century, President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting with students from the Russian Children’s Center “Ocean” . Putin pointed out that in theRead More →