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Andøya Rocket Range, site of Black Brant's fateful launch. (Thornews) On this day in 1995 - nearly four years after the end of the Cold War - the Russian Federation came within minutes of launching a nuclear strike on the United States. In the morning of January 25th, a rocket was detected by Russian early-warning…
Chechen militants with a Russian Hind they've shot down. (Wikimedia Commons) On this day in 1994, troops from the newfound Russian Federation entered Chechnya, a federal republic within Russia. The intervention - ordered by Boris Yeltsin, Russia's first president - came as a result of ongoing civil war and unrest emanating from the Chechen capital…
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