... defeat in the war. Under these agreements, after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, the Arab
vilayets
were to come under the mandate of these powers. Their representatives, Britain’s Sir Mark Sykes and Francois Georges-Picot of France went down in history as the authors of the first hastily put together version to colonially divide the Asian part of Ottoman Turkey.
Sykes started travelling in the Middle East at the age of 11 with his parents, the eccentric Sir Tatton Sykes, who, according to his ...
... citizens who remember the feat of our peoples have gathered here is extremely important not only for the present generation but even more for the future ones," Kislyak said. "It is especially important when there are the attempts to rewrite the history and to forget much of the heroic things done by the Soviet people."
Russian, US well as the delegations of the former Soviet Union states laid wreaths at the "Spirit of the Elbe" memorial at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Amidst the negotiation of an attempted settlement to the East Ukraine armed conflict, a new stage of information and ideological confrontation appears to be unfolding between Russia and Ukraine, this time about their past. In fact, the fabric of the history of the Kievan Rus looks very much like a blanket, with each country trying to pull all of it to its side.
What we have seen so far has been sluggish but definitely intensifying jostling in the media, textbooks, movies and other cultural areas ...
“A thousand-year-old” history as the basis of Russian identity
In recent years, the Russian authorities have been referring more and more often to the country’s “thousand-year-old history”. Not only does this formula set a chronological framework, but ...
... prosperity and rapprochement between socialist nations, internationalism, and friendship of peoples. In the 1970s this idea was complemented by the concept of a ‘united Soviet people’ – a community of peoples whose identity relied on common history, culture, and ideological indoctrination.
In the late 1970s and 1980s, Western countries witnessed the establishment of different kinds of multiculturalism. Those countries recognized the heterogeneity of civic nations and supported cultural distinctions,...
... Senate or the American people would approve the idea of this new United Nations. In fact, the proposal to include the 16 republics with voting rights in the global organization seemed so absurd to Roosevelt that he expected to talk Stalin out of it (as history showed, it was eventually decided that two Soviet Republics, Ukraine and Belarus, will become UN member-states).
Another difficulty centered on the veto: the more the British and Americans objected to it, the more insistent Gromyko became. Stettinius ...
... requires attention not only to the outcomes of diplomatic efforts or events but also an insight into the essence and motives of the participants, as well as into the methods used for problem solving. In a nutshell, it is something you may call living history, something unimaginable without inspiration. Success in the art of diplomacy implies the amalgamation of knowledge, experience, talent and high-level aspirations.
What are the components of the art of diplomacy? Primarily, it is the ability to ...
... Patriotic War executed by the Red Army in the Kursk Bulge area with the aim of frustrating a major German offensive and crushing the enemy’s strategic grouping are historically titled the Battle of Kursk
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The Battle of Kursk, Unmatched in World History
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Battle of Kursk (in Russian)
The Kursk defensive operation unfolded along the 550-km frontline and brought a complete breakdown to the Nazi Operation Citadel. The operation engaged troops from the Central and Voronezh Fronts,...
