Among other things, it lifts the ban on electing the same head of a region for more than 2 consecutive terms...

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We know well and understand our neighbors, their symbols of faith, conflicts, myths, fears and phobias Kyiv, 1991 an unauthorized rally of the Union of Nationalist Ukrainian Youth. Photo: RIA Novosti The end of the First World War is a happy moment in the fate of many peoples of Central and Eastern Europe. Without surviving a protracted military conflict, the empires broke up one after another. The peoples, considered small, gained their own states.

Why did Hitler attack our country 80 years ago? Photo: Hulton Archive / Getty images Did Adolf Shiklgruber himself understand what war is? The question seems strange: he also participated in the First World War. But what did he learn in the war? When Adolf Hitler committed suicide in the 45th, a badge for the wound and iron cross of the 1st degree flashed on his military-sample tunic. He was proud of awards.

See the collapse of those who closed you. A few days after the August putsch, I came to the Old Square in Moscow. It was deserted there - not a single person. The doors of the dissolved Central Committee of the CPSU are locked. Windows have already managed to be covered with dust. An unforgettable sight. In the Soviet system, it was a center of power. But the system itself has ceased to exist.

In society Waited May 5, 2021 Leonid Mlechin See the collapse of those who closed you. A few days after the August putsch, I came to the Old Square in Moscow. It was deserted there - not a single person. The doors of the dissolved Central Committee of the CPSU are locked. Windows have already managed to be covered with dust. An unforgettable sight. In the Soviet system, it was a center of power. But the system itself has ceased to exist.

Now it’s even hard to imagine what doctors had to be in the fall of the 41st defending Moscow The orderly is drawing a dressing for a wounded fighter. The beginning of the war. Photo: RIA Novosti “The war brought with him an apology of revenge and cruelty,” wrote the religious philosopher Georgy Fedotov, who left Russia. “But the same war woke the keys of the dozen tenderness for the scolded homeland ...

The ostentatious expulsions of diplomats are evidence of the rapidly deteriorating relations between Russia with other countries. Explains Leonid Mlechin The US Embassy in Bolshoi Devyatinsky Lane in Moscow. Photo: Vladimir Gerdo / TASS Intelligence information is necessary for the analysis of complex political processes in the situation “worse than the Cold War”, which was predicted by Minister Lavrov. But who will get it if everyone sends the scouts?

Vitaliy Nikitich Ignatenko, who was my editor -in -chief in the New Time weekly, notes the eighty year Photo: RIA Novosti I well remember how the new main - tall, impregnable, in a leather coat appeared in the editorial office. The former editor picked up the tube of the turntable - a government connection apparatus - with a trembling hand, and in the other in advance squeezed a pencil to record the highest command.

The creator of the hydrogen bomb, Academician Sakharov made more for the country than the army of officials that pursued him for many years Photo: RIA Novosti For many years, the dispute lasts: to whom do we owe a hydrogen bomb? Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov? Or Soviet intelligence? Or Lavrenty Beria, whom Stalin put at the head of the atomic project? The first to create a thermonuclear weapon back in 1942 was the Nobel Laureate Enrico Fermi, who fled from fascist Italy to America.

75 years ago the Cold War began. We study the Fulton speech of Churchill and the reaction of superpower to her Winston Churchill. Photo: AP Photo / TASS The history of the past Cold War is customary to count from the Fulton speech of Winston Churchill.

Dzerzhinsky, assigning himself the right to execute and mercy, created a system of complete injustice Photo: TASS Already in the role of the chairman of the Cheka, who brought fear to all of Russia, Felix Dzerzhinsky wrote to his sister: “For many there is no name worse than mine. And I feel that you cannot come to terms with the thought that I am I am, and you cannot understand me, knowing me in the past ... You see only what comes to you, perhaps in condensed colors.

Khrushchev made the exposure of the personality cult at the twentieth Congress of the CPSU on February 25, 1956. For more than 30 years, the report remained secret. Why? Photo: Sputnik The report was published only abroad. Legends go about how the secret document hit the West. Historians are sure: this is the work of foreign intelligence. In reality, the text went west through socialist Poland.

Justice is prejudice. It should be judged based on the instructions of the party and government - so the Soviet judges were brought up Photo: TASS On February 23, 1937, the February-March Plenum of the Central Committee began work in Moscow. The new People's Commissar of the Interior Nikolai Yezhov said in an ominous voice: Nikolai Yezhov.

Three decades ago, we were sure: the war between the West and the East ended. But something went wrong Photo: RIA Novosti Three decades ago, it seemed that the confrontation between the West and the East remained in the past. The Cold War ended. The socialist camp no longer existed. The remaining islands-phrases-like Cuba or North Korea-are nothing more than traces of the disappeared Atlantis.