Today is Russia Day. It was on this day in 1990 that the Russian parliament declared sovereignty from the Soviet Union.

After gazing intently upon its cover every time I cashed out at the supermarket, I finally caved last night and bought it... TIME's 2007 Person of the Year: Vladimir Putin


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ABC.com - Russian Mystery Is Finally Unraveled: The Fate of Czar's Two Children Has Been Debated for Years

1. Feds OK drought deal letting Georgia keep more water

2. The Picture Of Conformity: In a Watched Society, More Security Comes With Tempered Actions

3. Slideshow: Steampunk, Past and Present

4. Religious scholars mull Flying Spaghetti Monster

5. Members of a doomsday cult are refusing to leave their hideout in a cave in southern Russia in ( Read more... )

1. The 1942 Disney cartoon "Der Fuehrer's Face" not only won an Academy Award, but is also ranked as one of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of All Time.

2. Vladimir Putin wants to be Prime Minister of Russia. Apparently high-ranking KGB official and President weren't enough.

3. Although Danica McKellar (aka "Winnie Cooper" from The Wonder Years) is ( Read more... )

Remains of czar heir may have been found

Canadian PM vows to defend Arctic - Canada's prime minister has begun a three-day trip to the Arctic in an effort to assert sovereignty over the region a week after Russia symbolically staked a claim to the North Pole by sending submarines.

Russia resumes nuke bomber sorties - Russia's strategic bombers have resumed the Soviet Union's Cold War ( Read more... )

Move over Scarlett Johansson! Mikhail Gorbachev is the new face of Louis Vuitton.

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Your Russian Name Is...
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