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3 days ago · Russia - Novgorod, History, Culture: Novgorod arose in the 9th century as one of the earliest centres of the exploitation of the forest hinterland and remained the most important commercial centre of the Kievan period. The changes of the latter Kievan period did not diminish the town’s importance, for it benefited both from the increased activity of the Hanseatic League and from the ...
4 days ago · One civilian has been killed after a ballistic missile struck the southern port city of Odesa. Governor Oleh Kiper said at least seven others had been injured after the attack on the region and ...
1 day ago · Russia - Post-Soviet Russia: The U.S.S.R. legally ceased to exist on December 31, 1991. The new state, called the Russian Federation, set off on the road to democracy and a market economy without any clear conception of how to complete such a transformation in the world’s largest country. Like most of the other former Soviet republics, it entered independence in a state of serious disorder ...
2 days ago · Russia, in the guise of the U.S.S.R., had become a great power and by the 1970s was one of two world superpowers. The advent of the Cold War in the 1940s led to Stalin tightening his grip on his sphere of influence in eastern and southeastern Europe. Russian was imposed as the main foreign language, and Russian economic experience was copied.
1 day ago · But on May 24, 40,000 Tatar troops approached the city of Moscow, and the Russian militia with low morale suddenly dispersed (Russia always believed that the Tatar army numbered 100,000 to 200,000), and hardly did any decent resistance.
4 days ago · Italy - Renaissance, City-States, Humanism: From the 1380s to the 1450s Italy was torn by a long series of large-scale wars. The principal aggressor in these conflicts was the Visconti family, who, having seized the signoria of Milan, had extended their power to many other cities, from Asti in Piedmont to Reggio in Emilia. From 1385 the ruthless and energetic Gian Galeazzo Visconti (created ...
3 days ago · Moscow - Urbanization, Politics, Economy: As the capital of post-Soviet Russia, Moscow was at the centre of the country’s historic transformation. In the decade following the Soviet collapse, many historical buildings, especially churches, underwent a sweeping renovation on a scale without precedent in the city’s history. Foreign investment contributed to the proliferation of Western-style ...
