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                    [Title] => 100 years after his death, Russians shrug at Lenin's legacy
                    [Summary] => For almost a century after his death, Vladimir Lenin's carefully preserved body has lain in a purpose-built mausoleum on Red Square -- a glaring reminder of Russia's communist past.
                    [DatePublished] => 2024-01-21 14:53:00
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                    [Title] => Unwanted gift from Stalin, Warsaw Palace of Culture turns 60
                    [Summary] => 

Some Poles liken the skyscraper to an elephant in lace underpants. A famous poet dubbed it "the nightmare of a drunken baker." And one joke goes that it provides the best view of Warsaw because you can't see the building from inside.

[DatePublished] => 2015-07-22 13:17:44 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1529024 [AuthorName] => Monika Scislowska [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1390369 [Title] => The wall [Summary] =>

Sometimes, history just whizzes by, blindsiding us.

[DatePublished] => 2014-11-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134157 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804783 [AuthorName] => Alex Magno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 948572 [Title] => USSR's old domain name attracts cybercriminals [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2013-05-31 16:08:37 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1665477 [AuthorName] => Raphael Satter [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 854223 [Title] => Some memorable props used by speakers at the UN [Summary] =>

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's use of a cartoon-like drawing of a bomb to convey a message over Iran's disputed nuclear program follows in a long and storied tradition of leaders and diplomats using props to make their points at the United Nations. Here are a few memorable examples...

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It was the Soviet Union's own giant leap for mankind, one that would spur a humiliated America to race for the moon. It happened 50 years ago this Tuesday, when an air force pilot named Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space.

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 Ah, yes. The ‘80s was indeed quite a decade, as global media networks converging around the vanished Berlin Wall now remind us daily. This nostalgic mood climaxes on 11-11-09, Wednesday, the 20th anniversary of its fall after 40 years of paranoia between the warring “capitalist and communist blocs”. I’m not immune. It was against the odds that my parents had me in World War II. Progressively more powerful missiles bristled over our teens in the “mutually assured destruction” of a nuclear arms race.

[DatePublished] => 2009-11-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135123 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1759825 [AuthorName] => Sylvia Mayuga [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 504263 [Title] => Russian envoy cautions US on Afghan troops surge [Summary] => KABUL (AP) — Russia's ambassador to Afghanistan has some advice for top NATO commanders fighting the Taliban based on the Soviet Union's bitter experience battling Islamist insurgents here in the 1980s: Don't bring more troops. [DatePublished] => 2009-09-12 15:30:14 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 494437 [Title] => Mass WWII grave brings Poles, Germans together [Summary] => MALBORK (AP) -- Germans and Poles are laying ghosts of World War II to rest this week — more than 2,000 of them. [DatePublished] => 2009-08-10 09:27:57 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 276693 [Title] => How about some payback first for the weapons that won the big war? [Summary] => WASHINGTON, DC – War makes strange bedfellows, the old maxim went. Peace makes strange bedfellows, too. Otherwise, how can we explain the fact that America’s George W. Bush is in Moscow, making chika-chika with Russia’s evangelist of a new Soviet Empire, without Communism – but neither is he a Democrat (much less a Republican) – the post-Stalin "man of steel" and Yukos-basher – Vladimir Putin?
[DatePublished] => 2005-05-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133172 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510184 [AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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