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- 1. 1741: The Year Russia Discovered America
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You probably know that Alaska was bought from Russia well over 100 years ago. But do you know why Russia claimed the territory in the first place? Hint: who doesn't love a fur coat?
- By Eugenia Sokolskaya
- 2. A Soviet Leader in the US? Preposterous!
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When you're a Soviet dictator, it's rare that you get the chance to tour the US, visiting movie sets, meat freezers, and steel mills, being featured on TV, and laughing at angry farmers. Nikita Khrushchev got that chance 55 years ago. And he made the most of it.
- By Eugenia Sokolskaya
- 3. This Just in From Ukraine...
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Today is the 401st anniversary of the crowning of the first Romanov Tsar, Mikhail, in 1613, and the end of the "Time of Troubles." This of course has nothing to do with current events. Just thought I'd mention it in passing.
- By Paul E. Richardson
- 4. U.S.-Soviet Grain Trade: 5 Stages of Grief
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As the United States struggled with the trauma of seeing a fellow state succumb to Communism, a pattern of familiar stages started to emerge in - of all places - its agricultural exports.
- By Eugenia Sokolskaya
- 5. Reset, Shmeeset
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It would be an understatement to say US-Russian relations have hit a low point. Not a Cuban Missile Crisis or even a 1980 Olympic Boycott sort of low point. More like a US bombing of Belgrade or Russian sleeper spies discovered in America sort of low point.
- By Paul E. Richardson
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