This year the United States of America celebrates the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence from England on July 4, 1776, and the beginning of the formation of the new Republic. In the capital, Washington, the festivities on this day were especially solemn. As always, the finale of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture...
In the first years after the end of the Cold War, Russian-American relations experienced an extraordinary upsurge: cultural and student exchanges became more frequent, American economic advisers, financiers, journalists and politicians became frequent guests in Russia, and the “fourth” post-perestroika wave of emigration from Russia to the United States began. Air traffic and visa departments...