As preparations for Donald Trump’s second inauguration intensify, the president-elect’s official portrait has become the subject of widespread attention and, in many cases, ridicule.

Gorbachev was a hero in Israel, where a potato was named for him and where he said he regretted the antisemitism that led to an exodus of Soviet Jews. (JTA) — Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet ...

On January 20, 1990, the Soviet army marched into Baku to crush the Azerbaijani Popular Front. It was a bloody invasion: almost 150 civilians died and more than 800 were wounded.

Seldom does a book appear that provides as comprehensive and well organized a treatment of its subject matter as does Portraits of Ukraine by Gregory W. Slayton & Sergei Ivashenko. The authors present ...

At the beginning of 1990, with the ascension of Mikhail Gorbachev to the presidency of the USSR, the Cold War was coming to an end. The Sandinistas of Nicaragua had been pressured by the US to ...

In 1991, he left his childhood dream (which he claimed was his second resignation) opposing the putsch against Gorbachev. ‘The New Tsar ... (from ‘First Person : An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait ...

"I sent those from home," Taylor said of the pajamas her son Trü wore in the photos A family’s Christmas portrait is going viral — for the wrong reasons. In a TikTok video, mother and ...

Read more of In Lebanon Zain Samir ‘Self-Portrait with Portrait of Émile Bernard (Les Misérables ... to the moment he witnessed preparations for the kidnapping of Mikhail Gorbachev in Crimea but ...

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Its leaders through the years — either dictators or secretary generals of the Central Committee — were Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Georgy Malenkov, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Breshnev, Yuri Andropov ...

With visual arts, performing arts, and new media, the Portrait Gallery introduces you to the people who have shaped the country—poets, presidents, actors, activists, visionaries, villains...and ...