Click on the link here for Audio Player: News for March 8, 1947 As a more-or-less companion to my post yesterday, which featured news from March 7th as presented by Radio Moscow, here is the U.S. take on the Foreign Ministers Conference, which was about to get underway in Moscow.
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Part 1: The Bolshoi Orchestra – Part 1 Click on the link here for Audio Player – Part 2: The Bolshoi Orchstra – Part 2 To Moscow this week for a live-as-it-happened concert featuring The Bolshoi Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Fedoseyev and featuring
Click on the link here for Audio Player: India-China War – November 1962 The one event that managed to dislodge reports regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis in November of 1962 was the outbreak of hostilities between India and China. Long a hotbed of disputes, the crisis reached boiling point late
Click on the link here for Audio player: Coup in Russia – August 21, 1991 News for this August 21st in 1991 had to do with the shocking turn of events in Russia. In the early hours of the morning, a coup staged by Kremlin hardliners ousted Mikhail Gorbachev and
Click on the link here for audio player: Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia – 1968 Even though news during this August in 1968 was primarily about the upcoming Democratic Convention in Chicago, the just finished Republican Convention in Miami and the ongoing protests to the Vietnam War, news for this August
Click on the link here for Audio player: Pussy Riot – Putin Lights Fires – 2012 In case you’ve been wondering, with the news the past few days regarding Russian Punk band Pussy Riot and the outrageous prison sentence handed down for “hooliganism”, probably not many of you have actually
Clink on the link here for Audio player: News for August 8, 1941 News for August 8, 1941 focused on the War in East with reports of German advances 130 miles into The Ukraine. Depending on who gave the accounts, the casualties were staggering. Germany claimed 200,000 Russian losses with
