Sadness. Depression. Despair. Anguish. Heart-breaking, gut-wrenching. Downtrodden. The limitless list of disparaging adjectives is mind-numbing in reading this otherwise brilliant piece by Belorussian journalist Svetlana Aleksievich. Up until last year, Chernobyl was the worst accident at a nucle...
Before the war, he was a cadet (42nd sniper unit of the 44th rifle division). In the first days of defending the fortress, he was taken prisoner after being wounded. Twice, he attempted escape from German concentration camps, and his second attempt was successful. He finished the war as he starte...
The roots of the war go back at least 150 years, to the struggle between Russia and Britain for influence in Central Asia. In the nineteenth century, after two wars with Britain, Afghanistan became a buffer state between British India and Russia. A third war led to independence in 1921. A monarch...