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1. The Final Frontier of Communism: Take a rocket launch into the dizzying expanses of Soviet space propaganda.; Tags: soviet union, soviet, propaganda, space women, space race, space, cosmonaut, tereshkova, gagarin

2. Cosmonautics Day and Fruit in Disguise: Investigations: the state of Russian cosmonautics, what happens to prohibited fruit, and when mourners aren't really mourning. Plus, sneaking pickles into space.; Tags: russia, space, sanctions, kremlin, cosmonaut; By Alice E.M. Underwood

3. Medical tourism, space tourism, imaginary tourism: A Moon landing is on the horizon. Eurovision, with its typical set of scandals, is on an even closer horizon. And on your way, why not stop by Red Square for some dental work?; Tags: russia, cosmonaut, eurovision, tourism; By Alice E.M. Underwood

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On This Day

Notable events on this day in Russian history

1975: Apollo-Soyuz mission launched, ships dock on July 17, the first space docking of two ships from two different nations.

1968: Commercial air travel between the United States and the U.S.S.R. started when the first plane, a Soviet Aeroflot jet, landed at New York's Kennedy International Airport. (Halted in 1978)

1937: Moscow-Volga Canal (renamed Moscow Canal in 1947) opens

1904: Viacheslav Plehve (tsarist Interior Minister) was assassinated by Egor Sazonov

1853: Vladimir Korolenko, writer, born (died 1921).

1841: Mikhail Lermontov killed in a duel

1741: The St. Paul, Chirikov's ship on the Second Expedition, makes first European sighting of Alaska. One day later, Bering's ship, the St. Peter, sights what later comes to be known as Mt. Elias, Alaska.

1718: Alexis Petrovich (Romanov) dies for 'plotting' to kill his father, Peter the Great

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