Moscow

A Few Minutes later the chopper appears over the horizon. I pop a green smoke and wait for them to land. The chopper lands on a grassy field in front of me. I race toward my ride home while keeping my guard up. My motto is: The war zone is the most dangerous when you’re leaving because you stand a chance of getting shot in the back by a soldier you missed or a lurking sniper. I board the Helicopter and I fly off into the horizon. I sit back on the chopper and light one of my smokes, the…

is more centralized. As Ivan was trying to increase the borders of Russia, he was able to defeat the Kazan army. When Ivan was able to defeat the Kazan, he decides to commission the construction of a Catholic church called St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow. Ivan was also able to expand the Russian Empire to Siberia. Siberia was reached in the natural resources like mountains and trees, and it was providing a vast natural resource that was not found in Russia…

Alexander Yuryevich “Sasha Pichuskin was born on April 4,1974 in Moscow, Russia. Pichushkin lived with his mother and sister in a small apartment. He slept on a couch while his mother slept on a queen size bed.He grew up on Khersonskaya Street.His father was not in his life he left the family when Alexander was one years old. When Alexander was four years old that was when his life changed. At the age of four he fell off a swing and had brain damage from that. He became impulsive and hostile.…

The 1972 World Chess Championships had a positive impact on views of society and politics within a time of détente and the Vietnam War within the cold war period, lessening tensions. The media portrayed the match as an ideological battle, exaggerating the political importance of the match, convincing society of the political importance of the match. The match attracted the attention of the Soviet Security Agency, the KGB, as well Henry Kissinger, the US National Security Advisor. Even though…

that time an illegal organisation, had been propagating an insurrection of previously subjugated knowledges via the distribution of unofficial posters, leaflets, and most interestingly, postage stamps. Prisoners, who carved imprints out of leather and smuggled them to the outside, produced some of these stamps. The stamps constructed and represented a different history of Poland and located Solidarity within that history, in opposition, as Evans put it, “to the official histories produced by the…

There are many topics out there to choose from. Sex trafficking in Thailand, AIDS in Africa, or the African Food Crisis of 2011. (globalissues.org) The topic chosen is one that isn’t just happening in Russia. It happens all over the world. The topic is “Human Rights - LGBT” and the paper will focus on Russia. History and Demography With a population of 142.470.272, Russia is a huge country. Out of all the people in Russia only 29.918.757 people believe that homsexuality is an orientation that…

Douglass extended the claim, women and people of color should make decisions on their own behalf without interferes from a dominating group. Richard Nixon brings back to the Russian students how their government should not control their lives in the Moscow Summit. Nowadays, liberty, as one of the most changing word in the English language, could mean nearly anything, depending…

There is a saying stating that what must come up must come down and this is what happened to the red giant, the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union, the soviet giant that Ronald Regan referred to as the “evil empire” spanning across about a third of the world, was forged in the fires of revolution and ultimately going from the tyranny of the Czar system to the red communism that Vladimir Lenin introduced. Even with decades of the Soviet Union in a power struggle with America and capitalism, on…

Rockefeller Center. In 1961 the One Chase Manhattan Plaza was completed after six years .It is a banking skyscraper with 60 floors and 248 m tall also today it is 209th tallest building in the world. In Russia there is an old skyscraper which is Lomonosov Moscow State University. It was founded in 1755 and was completed in 1953. It is considered to be the tallest educational building in the world. Its central tower is 240 m tall. It was the tallest building in Europe until 1990. Today it is…

Britannica.com states Fyodor Dostoyevsky was born on November 11, 1821, in Moscow, Rusia. Dostoyevsky’s father was a retired military surgeon who served as a doctor at the Mariinsky Hospital for the poor in Moscow. His father was a stern, suspicious, and rigid man. In contrast, his mother was a cultured woman from a merchant family. Until 1833 Dostoyevsky was educated at home, he was then sent to a boarding school. Dostoyevsky’s mother died in 1837 which affected his life traumatically. After…