Wednesday's attack was by far the most daring rebel exploit in the decade-long history of the conflict in Russia's would-be breakaway republic.
Children project foresees the creation of multi-media educational programmes in History and Geography of Russia for high school based on the website www.rusnations.ru.
Given the brutal history between Russia and so much of Europe and speculation that so much of the money is ill gotten it is clear why it would be so politically unpalatable to countries in the euro zone, Germany in particular, to bail out Russian depositors.
He has used his stature as one of history's best practitioners of chess, the national sport of Russia, to speak truth to power on behalf of millions of his countrymen who have become too intimidated to challenge Putin's systematic liquidation of what passed for democracy there.
In some ways, the seven years of his presidency have been among the least bad periods in Russia's history, which helps to explain his popularity but so does his neutering of the media, strangulation of political opposition and suborning of parliament and elections.
And as Dmitry said, the United States and Russia, because of our history and because we are nuclear superpowers, have a special obligation.
Yet viewed through the lens of Russia's uneasy relationship with its imperial history, the hostile reaction is logical.
Civil society, as we know it in the West, has been virtually nonexistent for most of Russia's history.
The United States and Russia have a history already, a decade-long history, of locking down loose nuclear materials.
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For reasons of both history and strategic prudence, the next administration should confer with our allies and Russia about its plans for missile defense, and seriously consider their views.
And we can expect trouble in the Balkans from Russia, which, going well back into history, has regarded itself as protector of the Serbs.
Why do hard-boiled analysts, who see right through rigged elections in Russia and Syria, fall for "the biggest crime of fraud in Egyptian history"?
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As last week's column pointed out, no country can look back on its history without shame, and modern Russia does not need to feel perpetually burdened by the crimes of the Soviet Union.
But Novgorod's place in Russian history, and Russia's search for a post-communist identity, do give the notion of a Novgorod model a special potency.
History has shown that British foreign policy was built around containing Russia and that Iran is one of the areas which both the UK and Russia fight for.
Last Monday, representatives of what is, arguably, the most anti-nuclear American administration in history agreed to a joint statement with Russia, China, Britain and France to ban the bomb.
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