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On May 17, 1960, then-Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev jeopardized the fragile compromise between the Soviet Union and Western countries on the burning Berlin issue by abruptly leaving the Paris summit on the post-war regulation before it could even get off the ground.…

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Peter Carl Faberge

Peter Carl Faberge was a world famous master jeweler and head of the ‘House of Faberge’ in Imperial Russia in the waning days of the Russian Empire.

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Road trip: Baikonur, launch of the Soyuz rocket

Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War

Annunciation Day

Resistance from within: Museum of German Anti-Fascists

Bayan's factory opens its doors to see how the production is going on

Soviet posters and front-line photos

Opening ceremony of "Worker and Kolkhoz Woman" monument in Moscow

Soviet Monument “Worker and Kolkhoz Woman” under reconstruction

Alexandrowka, Russian Colony in Potsdam

Historical festival and battle reconstruction in Kolomenskoye

The Moscow underground river Neglinnaya

Chernobyl

Festival of early History and Culture "Gorodetskoe Gulbishe"

Ballet in Kuskovo

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