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1. Dumbledovich and the Chamber of Bovine Distractions: Russia is a little out of touch with reality this week: gates lead to nowhere, cows get VR, and bankers think the economy is like Harry Potter.; Tags: Moscow, metro, Chelyabinsk, harry potter, cows, agriculture, cherepovets; By Tiffany Zhu

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Bears in the Caviar

A hilarious and insightful memoir by a diplomat who was “present at the creation” of US-Soviet relations. For anyone with even a passing interest in US-Russian history, this is a priceless book.

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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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