"While many have been demolished or converted into high-end hotels, a few holdouts remain operational, as if the Soviet Union had never collapsed," says Bloom. Ukraine's share of the Black Sea coast boasts an embarrassing amount of ...
In 1999 a Soviet War Memorial was unveiled by the then Secretary of State for Defence George Robertson, and the Russian ambassador Yuri Fokine. The date of the unveiling (9 May) was significant as that day is marked as Victory Day in ...
Of course, it's an undisputed fact that the Central Intelligence Agency trained and funded Bin Laden and the rest of the Mujahideen to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan from 1979 onwards. ... The business connection of the two families was so tight that on the very morning of 9/11, George H.W. Bush was meeting with Osama bin Laden's brother, Shafig bin Laden, in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington DC during a Carlyle Group function. When all air traffic was grounded in ...
