Baton Desiderium: the “battle of the Buryats” in the Georgian-Ossetian war shocked the foreign media
During the military conflict between Georgia and South Ossetia in 2008 there were many examples of the bravery of the soldiers of the Russian army. The Western media rarely laudatory articles in our direction, but one of the cases they described in great detail. It was 8 August when one soldier was able to stop a column of armed Georgians.
“Ancient Egyptian civilization”: they were used by the pharaohs
That the Egyptian pharaohs built the great pyramids, they were not buried, was well known to the ancients. Curious how they explained it. So Diodorus Siculus, who lived in the 1st century BC, reported that the Pharaoh Chephren (khafra) the Egyptians hated so much in his life that he was disposed to bury himself in another place, fearing that his burial was not polluted.
“Thief-out-law”: what happened to “the last criminal of the USSR”
It was called "the last criminal in the USSR". He called himself "Thief-out-law". His story formed the basis of the 10 feature and documentary films, one of the most famous – "Prison song" with Alexander Abdulov in the title role (1993). At the finish of the Soviet Union as a state Sergey Maduev named Ducat, was indeed the most "outstanding" representative of the Soviet criminals in their criminal abilities.
Why Gorbachev was arrested the participants of the Belavezha accords
The collapse of the Soviet Union, as correctly noted by Vladimir Putin, was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the twentieth century. While the Belavezha accords, in conditions when the population of the USSR at the referendum voted for the preservation of the country, look a state crime. At the same time, it is not clear why the conspirators had not been arrested.
Choosing the Right Defense Strategy for an Impaired Driving Charge
Not every drunk driving arrest looks the same, and the defense approach that makes sense for one situation can be completely wrong for another....
