10 books to add to your reading list in February
Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising new titles — fiction and nonfiction — to consider in February.
Kremlin Chokes YouTube Service, but Russians Find Ways Around It
The Kremlin is trying to cripple YouTube in Russia, internet experts say, pushing some people to state-controlled domestic ...
Patrick Wilson, Matthew Modine, Gracie Lawrence Join Cast of Signe Baumane’s Latvian Animated Feature ‘Karmic Knot’
The 'My Love Affair with Marraige' director's next project tells the story of a tight-knit family striving to survive in ...
Five Easy Masterpieces: an introduction to Eastern Bloc bands
An often overlooked feature of the Soviet Union and its Eastern Bloc states' cultural character, we select five bands from ...
Doomsday Clock ticks one second closer to midnight: How doomed are we?
The Doomsday Clock is now at 89 seconds to midnight and we’ve never been closer to annihilation. Here’s everything you need ...
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Bowie’s Berlin: Up against the wall
When David Bowie’s Glass Spider Tour arrived in West Berlin on June 6, 1987, the city was the world’s de facto capital of ...
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The Battle of Stalingrad 1942-’43. When the Soviets defeated the Nazis and fascists
There Battle of Stalingrad it was probably the most decisive set of clashes of the Second World Warfought in what ...
Putin is repeating a Soviet-era mistake that tanked the Russian economy, Polish foreign minister says
Poland's foreign minister said Putin used to criticize the Soviet approach that helped bankrupt it, but now he's repeating ...
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Auschwitz-Birkenau: The History Of Hitler's Death Camp
On June 22, Germany invades the Soviet Union, breaking a 1939 pact with Joseph Stalin, and sends prisoners of war to the camp. On September 3, the first mass gassing with Zyklon B of 600 Soviet ...
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Sunny War Teams with Valerie June for New Single “Cry Baby” from Her Forthcoming Album ‘Armageddon in a Summer Dress’
Folk used to be very anti-establishment. Pete Seeger, union songs, Woody Guthrie—that’s punk rock sh*t. It’s all about being an outsider,” she explained. Sunny War will release Armageddon ...
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How Artificial Intelligence Will Remake Espionage
In the early 1950s, the United States faced a critical intelligence challenge in its burgeoning competition with the Soviet Union. Outdated German reconnaissance photos from World War II could no ...