Resultados para "De Rus" en América

Shawn Harrington returned to Marshall High School as an assistant coach years after appearing as a player in the iconic basketball documentary film Hoop Dreams. In January of 2014, Marshall's struggling team was about to improve after the addition of a charismatic but troubled player. Everything changed, however, when two young men opened fired on Harrington's car as he drove his daughter to school. Harrington was struck and paralyzed. The mistaken-identity shooting was followed by a series of events that had a devastating impact on Harrington and Marshall's basketball family.

In Polish: Applebaum presents the story of an inconceivable crime: “she describes the works of Stalin, which are only superseded by the Holocaust, but their cruelty and perfidy match the actions of Hitler” - Wacław Radziwinowicz (Polish journalist). This book describes Holodomor - the Great Famine in Ukraine between 1931 and 1933 which killed three million people and was man-made by the Soviet government.

Leonid Brezhnev became First Secretary of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union in late 1964 after a plot to oust Khrushchev. Little is remembered in the public imagination about Brezhnev in comparison to Mikhail Gorbachev, Vladimir Lenin, or Joseph Stalin, despite the fact Brezhnev ruled the USSR from 1964-1982, longer than any Soviet leader other than Stalin. In fact, he held power during a tumultuous era that changed the world in remarkable ways, and that era has been favorably remembered by many former Soviet citizens.

In 1950, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were arrested for allegedly passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union, an affair FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover labeled the "crime of the century". Their case became an international sensation, inspiring petitions, letters of support, newspaper editorials, and protests in countries around the world. Nevertheless, the Rosenbergs were executed after years of appeals, making them the only civilians ever put to death for conspiracy-related activities. Yet even after their executions, protests continued.

Russia has been depicted by the media as a cyberspace boogeyman, a nation of hackers that can and will exploit any and all vulnerabilities of private organizations, government entities, and social media platforms. Over the last 10 years, as hackers all over the world have been mobilized to carry out state agendas, this “nation of hackers” reputation has evolved into something much more serious...today, Russian cyberwarfare keeps military officers, policymakers, and ordinary citizens around the world up at night.

Благодаря Остапу Бендеру у большинства российских читателей есть представление о главном городе Бразилии. Мулаты, бухта, экспорт кофе... Полтора миллиона человек, и все поголовно в белых штанах. В Бразилии проводятся феерические карнавалы, таких нигде больше нет. Ну и, конечно же, все любители футбола (и не только они) знают, что в Бразилии родились Пеле и Роналду... А еще в Бразилии есть фавелы – трущобы, в которые боится заходить даже суровая бразильская полиция. Эта книга даст вам возможность побывать в Бразилии и понять эту замечательную страну, не вставая с дивана. Разве не замечательно?

Аргентина — одна из самых интересных стран Южной Америки. Многоликий Буэнос-Айрес, завораживающие водопады Игуасу, величественные ледники и термальные источники. Родина Диего Марадоны и Лионеля Месси, папы Франциска и Эрнеста Че Гевары. Здесь преклоняются перед президентом Пероном и его супругой Эвитой, аргентинским танго и футболом. Каждый город хранит свои тайны, неповторимые места и историю. Y los libres del mundo responden: "Al gran pueblo argentino, ?salud!" — И свободные мира отвечают: "Великому народу Аргентины салют!', как поется в национальном гимне Аргентинской Республики.

В начале 80-х годов XIX века в верховьях Амура были обнаружены богатые золотые россыпи. Принятый в 1865 году закон, разрешавший частный золотой промысел, породил настоящую "золотую лихорадку" на Амуре - тысячи людей бросились на поиски благородного металла, мечтая разбогатеть. Это привело к созданию так называемых, старательских республик. Самой знаменитой из них стала Желтугинская республика или Амурская Калифорния. Раньше всех на берега Желтуги слетелись беглые каторжники, которые скрывались неподалеку. Затем в эти края прибыли китайцы, называвшие золотоносную реку Мохэ.

Dura lex sed lex.(Суров закон, но закон)Борис Палант - выдающийся нью-йоркский адвокат, доктор юридических наук, магистр искусств со специализацией в психолингвистике и семиотике, обладатель титула "супер-адвокат", присуждаемого компанией "Thomson-Reuters".

Борис Палант - человек-легенда, талантливый адвокат и писатель, многолетний ведущий радио и телепередач, продолжает делиться с нами самыми запутанными, веселыми и грустными историями, которые если и нельзя назвать стопроцентно документальными, но уж абсолютно точно очень похожими на реальные.

Стала бы Америка великой страной без своей Конституции и Билля о правах.

Of all the goals the Bolshevik Revolution aimed to bring about, perhaps nowhere were Russian promises delivered on more than in the success of the Soviet Space program of the 1950s and 1960s. As a result of Russian innovation and technology, but also due to incredible drive to modernize and compete with the United States for world power, Russia was finally and triumphantly modernized in the eyes of her own people and the world.

In April 2016, computer technicians at the Democratic National Committee discovered that someone had accessed the organization's computer servers and conducted a theft that is best described as Watergate 2.0. In the weeks that followed, the nation's top computer security experts discovered that the cyber thieves had helped themselves to everything: sensitive documents, emails, donor information, even voice mails.

In today’s chaotic world, where the multiplication of information sources creates competing narratives, credibility is the key to winning the war of ideas. This is the reason why governments and corporations resort to astroturfing - creation of ostensibly grassroots movements set up to advance political agendas and commercial campaigns. The democratization of information and polarization of politics offer a perfect storm.

The Soviet Nuclear Weapons Program: The History and Legacy of the USSR’s Efforts to Build the Atomic Bomb examines the Soviets’ race to reach the ultimate goal during and after World War II, and how they went about their objectives. You will learn about Nazi Germany’s nuclear weapons program like never before.

From the acclaimed author of JFK and Vietnam comes a book that uncovers the government's role in the Kennedy assassination more clearly than any previous inquiry. What was the extent of the CIA's involvement with Lee Harvey Oswald? Why was Oswald's file tampered with before the assassination of John F. Kennedy? And why did significant documents from that file mysteriously disappear? Oswald and the CIA answers these questions, not with theories, but with information from the primary sources themselves.

The third volume of the collected works of famous Russian writer Mark Aldanov (1886-1957) includes historical portraits, which tell about famous trials, which played a significant role in the history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the debate about which do not cease to this day.

борник историй великих российских артистов, режиссеров и актеров об интереснейшем явлении в истории СССР—дефиците. Эта аудиокнига не только о том, на какие ухищрения шли люди, чтобы раздобыть самое необходимое—одежду и обувь, продукты, бытовую технику, книги, машины, билеты в театр и контакты нужных специалистов (врачей, сантехников, автослесарей),—она о самом времени и обстоятельствах, которые так или иначе коснулись почти каждого жителя страны.

Despite incredible political, military, and intelligence risks, and after six years of secret preparations, the CIA attempted to salvage the sunken Soviet ballistic missile submarine K-129 from the depths of the North Pacific Ocean in early August 1974. This audacious effort was carried out under the cover of an undersea mining operation sponsored by eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes.

Western interpretations of the Cold War--both realist and neoconservative--have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin's pragmatism or its aggressiveness, argues Vladislav Zubok. Explaining the interests, aspirations, illusions, fears, and misperceptions of the Kremlin leaders and Soviet elites, Zubok offers a Soviet perspective on the greatest standoff of the 20th century.