In 1988, the mayor of the American city of Burlington, Bernie Sanders, came to Yaroslavl as part of a search for twin cities. The trip coincided with Sanders' honeymoon. "Trust me, it was a very strange honeymoon," wrote the current American presidential candidate nearly 10 years after that trip. But…
On January 14, the famous Zaporozhye weightlifter Leonid Zhabotinsky passed away. The legendary athlete was unable to overcome the flu, which caused serious complications. This was reported by his son Ruslan. “He was sick, but he was recovering, and then he got infected with the flu - and there was a sharp...
In an interview with Charlie Rose, Star Wars creator George Lucas said that his Soviet colleagues enjoyed more freedom than American directors, The Wall Street Journal reports. According to Lucas, in the West there is such a system that participants in the film industry cannot afford...
On Monday, November 30, at the age of 97, Marcus Klingberg, an Israeli scientist convicted in the 80s of espionage for the USSR, died in France. Abraham Markus Klingberg was born in 1918 in Warsaw into a religious Jewish family. Already in…
Former US National Security Agency (NSA) employee Ronald Pelton, who was sentenced in 1986 to three life sentences for espionage for the USSR, was released. Pelton, 74, who was arrested in 1985, was granted parole after 30 years in prison. ...
Exactly 53 years ago, on October 28, 1962, the command of a secret American missile base in Okinawa was ordered to launch 32 tactical missiles with nuclear warheads. As you know, the order was not carried out - the serviceman responsible for the launch suspected an error and did not follow the order. The Bulletin ...
This estate, put up for sale for one hundred million dollars, until recently belonged to Timur Sapir, president of the New York construction company The Sapir Organization. Teimuraz Sepiashvili (this is the real name of Sapir), who was born in Tbilisi, emigrated with his wife and mother in 1973 ...
On September 12, in Brooklyn, at the Master Theater (formerly Millennium) in Brighton, the Russian Red Carpet ceremony, named after the Hollywood Academy Awards, will take place. Awards will also be presented on the Brooklyn track - though not to filmmakers, but to the leaders of the Russian-speaking community. ...
Cedric Belfrage, a well-known Hollywood journalist and film critic in the thirties, was born in London in 1904 into a physicist's family and studied at the University of Cambridge, who left because of his hobby for theater and cinema. After working on critical reviews for the Daily and Sunday Express, Belfrage left for the United States. Following his passions, he ...
The spouses from Haifa - Andrei and Tatyana Shpak - decided to transfer their used car to a single soldier doing military service in the IDF. They asked their Facebook friends to help them find the "lucky one" and received hundreds of recommendations. Published on the social network and ...