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1. Against Some Odds, Still in the Game!: This week Russia lost but isn’t out yet; football fans, amazingly, spread cheer across Russia; and a storm reminds us of the world outside.; Tags: Rostov-on-Don, soccer, World Cup, barnaul, Nizhny Novgorod; By Irina Bukharin

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On This Day

Notable events on this day in Russian history

1990: Armenia declared independence from Moscow.

1986: Gennady Zakharov was arrested by the FBI and charged with espionage.

1979: Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defected while the Bolshoi Ballet was on tour in New York.

1943: Russian forces defeat Germany in the Battle of Kursk.

1942: The Battle of Stalingrad began. The seven-month battle is considered one of the most important of WWII in which ca. 2 million soldiers and civilians lost their lives.

1939: Molotov-Rippentrop Non-Aggression Pact signed between Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia. Secret protocols provide for the division of Poland and the Baltics.

1880: Alexander Grin, writer, born

1874: Alexander Vishnevsky, surgeon, born (died 1948)

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