Ukrainian officials have asked for a weapon that can strike targets 190 miles away. But the Pentagon — wary of widening the war — says the ones it has provided are powerful enough.
Tag: USSR (Former Soviet Union)
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The Facts and Fictions of Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk’
The 1934 opera, revived this season at the Metropolitan Opera, stoked the ire of the Soviet state, or so the story goes. But archives tell a more interesting tale.
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Clashes Erupt Between Armenia and Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh
The simmering conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed region last flared in 2020, when Russia brokered a cease-fire.
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U.S. Men’s Basketball on 1972 Munich Olympics: ‘We Deserve Gold Medals’
Fifty years after a painful, and controversial, loss to the Soviet Union in the 1972 Olympics, some American men’s basketball players still hope to be declared the rightful winners.
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Why Gorbachev Mattered
Gorbachev’s dream of a democratic, prosperous Russia at peace with its neighbors has been dashed.