She was already well-known in some circles before March 6, 2018, but that’s probably the first time you heard the name Stormy Daniels. That’s the day she filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump over a nondisclosure agreement negotiated...
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The explosive story of the poisoning of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and what it reveals about the growing clandestine conflict between the West and Russia
Salisbury, England: March 4, 2018.
Slumped on a bench, paralyzed and barely...
Автор: Коэн Стивен , Познер Владимир Владимирович
Серия: The Munk Debates
Язык: английский
Год: 2015
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How should the West deal with Putin’s Russia? For the U.S. and some European powers the answer is obvious: isolate Russia with punishing economic sanctions, remove it from global institutions such as the G8, and arm the nations directly threatened...
Биографии и мемуары, Военная документалистика и аналитика
The Sky Wept Fire: My Life as a Chechen Freedom Fighter
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“Imagine George Costanza from Seinfeld being sent off to cover the Iraq War… Hilarious.”
(Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times).
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Биографии и мемуары
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Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita is one of the most beloved and notorious novels of all time. And yet very few of...
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Биографии и мемуары, Химия
State Secrets: An Insider's Chronicle of the Russian Chemical Weapons Program
This is the book nobody wants you to read.
An unparalleled deception took place in the 1980s, while U.S.S.R. President Mikhail Gorbachev was negotiating for the Chemical Weapons Convention. This treaty was supposed to destroy chemical weapons of...
Capturing for posterity the vanishing world of uranium mining, this candid memoir recounts the author’s adventures and misadventures working underground in 1970s New Mexico, the “Uranium Capital of the World.” Detailed descriptions of the...
Биографии и мемуары, Военная история
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“By the will of fate I came to play a part in not letting Hitler achieve his final goal of disappearing and turning into a myth… I managed to prevent Stalin’s dark and murky ambition from taking root – his desire to hide from the world that...