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...this day, it remains unclear how many were exploded or what, if anything, their warheads contained. While visitors will want to be aware of Lake Issyk-Kul's history, there is no evidence that the testing has caused any lasting damage to the lake's ecology, and both Russian families and avid anglers have happily vacationed there for many years. The Kyrgyz authorities also insist that the lake is perfectly clean and safe. In fact, the only booms you'll come across today will be the sounds of the area's spa industry taking...
Vandals wrote “anti-semitic graffiti including swastikas and writings in German and Russian regarding Adolf Hitler and Jews” on the walls of a Columbia dorm room on Dec. 1, according to the criminal complaint...
...this day, it remains unclear how many were exploded or what, if anything, their warheads contained. While visitors will want to be aware of Lake Issyk-Kul's history, there is no evidence that the testing has caused any lasting damage to the lake's ecology, and both Russian families and avid anglers have happily vacationed there for many years. The Kyrgyz authorities also insist that the lake is perfectly clean and safe. In fact, the only booms you'll come across today will be the sounds of the area's spa industry taking...
...Eugene Onegin,” which was my last year of high school. From the very first day I got the e-mail saying that I was invited to be in the chorus until closing night, I was just on a high. It was in Russian, which was very exciting. But it was such a typical Harvard show. Every week we would have a music rehearsal followed by one hour of learning how to speak Russian. Not exactly something you need to do for an opera, where you can generally just learn from transliteration. But no, we got to learn...
...Diplomatic solutions, by nature, have to allow both sides to claim some sort of victory, and the best contender had looked to be a Russian proposal to enrich uranium for Iran's reactors on Russian soil. Iran was always iffy about that proposal, but when Russia sought to sweeten the deal by allowing for some limited enrichment for research purposes in Iran, the U.S. balked. (Permitting any enrichment activity would allow Iran to perfect its techniques, and also provide it with cover for procuring nuclear technology that could aid a bomb program.) Once it became clear that the U.S. wouldn...