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In the Russian army an important role always played NCOs, non-commissioned officers, or NCOs, depending on which army, tsarist, Soviet or Russian, was discussed. And recently introduced a new position – Sergeant major.

"Tarantella" is one of the largest and most successful operations of the Soviet intelligence. For a long time the information was top secret. Ajar veil of secrecy was only in 2008 when a foreign intelligence Service of Russia published a number of interesting documents of the early 1930-ies.

Many of the 1990-ies was remembered as a time of financial pyramid MMM, "Vlastilina", Khoper-invest, Herbalife... But the great pyramid was organized by the Russian government, releasing state short-term obligations – Federal loan bonds, GKO-OFZ. Some believe guilty of default Sergei Kiriyenko, announced it. But he is no more than a messenger who brought bad news. Take a look in the engine room and understand how the mechanism leading to default.

Fourteen-year-old teenager Peter klypa was one of the few survivors of the defenders of the Brest fortress. After the war, the young hero of the great Patriotic war was associated with criminals and was sentenced to 25 years in prison for robbery. A petition writer Sergei Smirnov, the author of the book "Brest fortress" (1954), which describes in detail the biography of Petr Sergeevich Klipy, helped him to escape after 5 years.

The emergence of the Caucasian native cavalry division, later nicknamed the "wild", became for the Russian army an exception to the General rule, because the Muslims of the Caucasus for military service in the Russian Empire are not recruited. At the same time, the cavalry of the "wild division" not only showed wonders of heroism during the First World war, but also played a significant role in the events that followed the February revolution to the eve of the October revolution of the Bolsheviks.