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Alexander Viktorovich Solonik was born on 16 October 1960, in Kurgan, Soviet Union. [4] As a child he showed great interest in freestyle wrestling and firearms.In his youth Sononik lived in the same neighbourhood as Andrei Kolegov, who would become one of the leaders of the Kurgan criminal organization.
Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky (Russian: Оле́г Влади́мирович Пенько́вский; 23 April 1919 – 16 May 1963), codenamed Hero (by the CIA) and Yoga (by MI6) [1] was a Soviet military intelligence colonel during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
As leader of the Soviet Union, Khrushchev enjoyed considerable popularity throughout the 1950s due to the successful launching of Sputnik and victorious outcomes in the Suez Crisis, the Syrian Crisis of 1957, and the 1960 U-2 incident. By the early 1960s, however, support for Khrushchev's leadership was significantly eroded by domestic policy ...
August 29, 1960: Amman Jordan: Killed in a bomb explosion Abebe Aregai: Prime Minister of Ethiopia: December 17, 1960: Addis Ababa Ethiopia: Failed military coup d'état: Rafael Trujillo: President of the Dominican Republic: May 30, 1961: Ciudad Trujillo Dominican Republic: Juan Tomás Díaz, Antonio de la Maza, Amado García Guerrero, Antonio ...
The following day, workers at the Budenny Electric Locomotive Factory marched to the central square of the city where army units fired on them, killing 23. Another 116 demonstrators were arrested, with 14 tried for "anti-Soviet agitation" and seven of them sentenced to death. The other seven received 10–15 years in prison.
A 64-year-old man has been arrested in southern Russia for the shooting death of a former submarine commander who is alleged by some in Ukraine to have killed more than 20 civilians in a long ...
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and Russian President Vladimir Putin in November 2017. Omar al-Bashir was indicted on 4 March 2009 on five counts of crimes against humanity and two counts of war crimes with regard to the situation in Darfur, Sudan. [40] On 12 July 2010 he was additionally charged with three counts of genocide. [39]
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