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Vazgen Sarkisian Biography
Vazgen SarkisianAge: 40 Armenian prime minister and victim of a coup attempt in the impoverished former Soviet state. Sarkisian, who was appointed to Armenia's second-highest government post…Bobby Fischer Biography
chess playerDied: January 18, 2008 (Reykajvik, Iceland) Best Known as: winner of the 1972 world chess championship against Soviet world champion A…Ruth Werner 2000 Deaths
Ruth WernerAge: 93 valiant Soviet spy who, with Klaus Fuchs, radioed critical information on the atomic bomb to Moscow, accelerating the Soviets' production and detonation of the bomb in 1949…Leon Trotsky
Name at birth: Lev Davidovich BronsteinA key figure in the creation of the Soviet Union, Leon Trotsky was later unseated and expelled by that nation's leader, Joseph Stalin. As a young man Trotsky…Hamid Karzai
Hamid Karzai was the president of Afghanistan from 2004-2014, and he remains a prominent figure in Afghan politics. His father was the hereditary Khan (chief) of the Popalzai tribe in the Kandahar…Lithuania
(Encyclopedia) CE5 LithuaniaLithuanialĭth&oomacr;āˈnēə [key], Lithuanian Lietuva, officially Republic of Lithuania, republic (2015 est. pop. 2,932,000), 25,174 sq mi (65,201 sq km), N central…Russian art and architecture
(Encyclopedia) Russian art and architecture, the artistic and architectural production of the geographical area of Russia. Around the turn of the century Mir Iskusstva (World of Art Group) was…Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Biography
Russian authorDied: August 3, 2008Best Known as: Nobel Prize-winning Russian author who struggled against Soviet Communism Deathplace: Moscow, Russia…Kira Ivanova 2001 Deaths
Kira IvanovaAge: 38 figure skating bronze medallist at the 1984 Olympics, who was found dead of stab wounds in her apartment; Soviet team member 1976-88; first Soviet woman to win an Olympic…Charlie Wilson
Charlie Wilson's adventures in governance, womanizing, and shipping guns to Afghan rebels were so colorful that Hollywood made a movie out of them. Charlie Wilson's War (2007), based on the 2003…Trending
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