2009
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3 days ago · The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award (also known as an Oscar) for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. It was created in 1940 as a separate writing award from the Academy Award for Best Story.
5 days ago · A court in St Petersburg dropped charges against an antiwar priest who was arrested in February after he tried to organize a memorial service for Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.
3 days ago · The Treaty of Pereiaslav of 1654 led to Ukraine becoming a protectorate of the Tsardom of Russia. This resulted in increased Ukrainian immigration to Russia, initially to Sloboda Ukraine but also to the Don lands and the area of the Volga river.
3 days ago · Григо́рий Ви́кторович Лепс (настоящая фамилия — Лепсвери́дзе; род. 16 июля 1962, Сочи, Краснодарский край ) — советский и российский эстрадный певец (артист-вокалист), музыкант, композитор, музыкальный продюсер; народный артист Российской Федерации (2022) [5] [6] [7], заслуженный артист Республики Ингушетия (2004), народный артист Карачаево-Черк...
3 days ago · In The Stalin School of Falsification, Trotsky argues that what he calls the "legend of Trotskyism" was formulated by Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev in collaboration with Stalin in 1924 in response to the criticisms Trotsky raised of Politburo policy.
5 days ago · In February 2024, the Russian authorities notably issued an arrest warrant against Grigory Chkhartishvili, better known under his pen name Boris Akunin, for justifying terrorism. The London-based bestselling novelist had expressed his support for Ukraine.
4 days ago · Nestor Apollonovich Lakoba was born in the village of Lykhny on May 1, 1893. His father, the peasant Apollon Lakoba, died three months before the birth of his son: he was killed for a harsh speech at a peasant gathering against the extortion and arbitrariness of princes and nobles.
