In a way, I'm a child of Khrushchev's thaw, that brief period in the late '50s and early '60s when the new Soviet liberalism was proclaimed and young people like my parents saw new light in communist ideas.
Peaceful coexistence of East and West, by the way …
"Russians in England" (Russkiye v Angliye) may be an unprepossessing title for a book, but it was hailed as "the publishing event of the week" by the Ex Libris weekly journal. This large-format, 416-page book by Olga Kaznina, a scholar with the Academic In …
Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov said that "further market reforms and the development of the economy as an organic part of the world economy is a high road for Russia."
"However, we will have to make considerable corrections in the former reform po …
Member-countries of the Geneva Conference on Disarmament admitted new five members -- Kazakhstan, Ireland, Malaysia, Tunisia and Ecuador -- at their session on Thursday.
Now the Conference includes 66 countries, including those states which possess nuclear …
All kinds of criminals seeking to hide illicit money in Switzerland will find it hard to do so now that a law against money laundering has come into force as of April 1, 1998.
The law stipulates that bankers, lawyers, managers and other people involved in …
The desire of the
government circles of democratic Poland" to have good relations with Russia was stressed by President Aleksander Kwasniewski during his Thursday meeting with the staff of the Oriental Studies Centre here. He noted that Russia was an impor …
The Polish Foreign Ministry
does not recommend" that Poles visit Chechnya, its spokesman said in a statement following the December 17 kidnapping of five Polish nationals in this breakaway Russian Caucasus autonomy.
Polish officials claimed that the five h …
Russian "shuttle traders," for whom the Polish authorities changed the border-crossing procedure, starting from the new year, held on Thursday an unsanctioned protest action at the border check point in the city of Bagrationovsk, Kaliningrad Region. Severa …
The Byelorussian Foreign Ministry continues talks with the Foreign Ministry of Poland after the sides exchanged notes of protest following tensions in the bilateral relations emerging after Poland introduced changes in the border regime and organized a sem …
Cuban Foreign Minister Roberto Robaina Gonzalez starts a working visit to Madrid at the Spanish invitation on Sunday to discuss a boost of the bilateral cooperation, primarily that political.
When in Madrid, the minister will meet Spanish Prime Minister Jo …
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