Новости за 22.12.2019

Belarus man sentenced to death By firing squad RFE Alyaksandr Asipovich, a Belarusian man sentenced to death for a double murder, was executed by firing squad on December 17, Interfax reported, quoting the Kommerchesky Kuryer newspaper. RFE/RL reporting. A senior prosecutor who oversaw the case told the publication the execution had been carried out. Belarus …

THE KIDNAPING OF THE LUNIK Sydney Wesley Finer CIA declassified The Cold War and the emerging space race were in full swing in the late 1950s. CIA kept President Eisenhower regularly apprised on the progress of the Soviet space program, which became a subject of worldwide attention following the successful 1957 launch of Sputnik—the first artificial satellite and …