Curated playlist
Russia–United States relations
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- START IIOn the 3rd of January 1993, START II was signed by US president George H. W. Bush and Russian president Boris Yeltsin. The treaty had a single goal: to ban a class of nuclear weapons that both nations had spent decades building. Called…
- New STARTNew START, signed on the 8th of April 2010 in Prague, was the most significant nuclear arms reduction agreement between the United States and Russia in a generation. At the moment the treaty entered into force on the 5th of February 2011,…
- Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces TreatyThe Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty ended, formally, on the 4th of August 2025, when Russia announced it would no longer abide by its terms. For a treaty that had already been dead as a functioning agreement since 2019, the…
- Jackson–Vanik amendmentThe Jackson-Vanik amendment started as a wager about human nature. A Senate staffer named Richard Perle explained the thinking behind it in an interview. "If people could vote with their feet, governments would have to acknowledge that and…
- Elbe DayElbe Day, the 25th of April 1945, began with a small boat crossing a river in Germany. First Lieutenant Albert Kotzebue paddled across the Elbe near Strehla with just three men from an intelligence and reconnaissance platoon. On the far…
- Russia–United States relationsRussia and the United States have called each other partners, rivals, and foreign adversaries within the span of a single lifetime. Their formal ties trace back to 1803. Their current diplomatic relationship, though, only began in 1991,…
- Second Cold WarThe phrase "Second Cold War" carries enormous weight, yet no one can agree on when it began. George Kennan, the architect of America's original Cold War containment strategy, issued a warning in May 1998 that the US Senate's vote to expand…
- International Space StationThe International Space Station travels at 7.67 kilometres every second, circling the Earth roughly every 93 minutes at about 400 kilometres up. It hangs below the Van Allen radiation belts and most space debris, tracing a path between…
- Russian undesirable organizations lawThe Russian undesirable organizations law goes by a bureaucratic title, Federal Law N 129-FZ. President Vladimir Putin signed it on the 23rd of May 2015. It followed two earlier measures, the 2012 Russian foreign agent law and the Dima…