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The main SAMs are the soviet SA-2 and SA-6, of which early and later versions are included in the game increasing lethality accordingly. The player can select a fictitious campaign from either Red Thunder (1962), Red Hammer (1968), or Red Lightning (1979), each being from a different time era with different aircraft and weapons forcing the ...
The social media company said it's launching a test that will let Facebook users in Germany, France and the U.S. browse eBay listings directly on its Marketplace online classifieds service but ...
ROSTA windows (also known as ROSTA windows of satire or ROSTA posters, Russian: Окна сатиры РОСТА, Окна РОСТА, ROSTA being an acronym for the Russian Telegraph Agency, the state news agency from 1918 to 1935) were a propagandistic medium of communication used in the Soviet Union to deliver important messages and instill ...
Bridgeville, California (population 25) was the first town to be sold on eBay in 2002, and has been up for sale three times since. [1] In January 2003, Thatch Cay, the last privately held and undeveloped U.S. Virgin Island, was listed for auction by Idealight International. The minimum bid was US$3 million and the sale closed January 16, 2003. [2]
During the Molotov–Ribbentrop pact period (1939–41), the Soviet citizens' primary interaction with the outside world was with the newly occupied borderlands of Finland, the Baltic States, Bessarabia, and Poland. [10] Goods considered scarce in the USSR such as watches, bicycles, clothes and food products were plentiful in these regions.
Although the Soviet Union issued commemorative platinum coins every year since 1977, designs unrelated to the Olympics appeared only in 1988 with the series "1000 years of ancient coinage, literature, architecture and the Baptism of Russia", along with silver, gold, platinum, and palladium coins. The series marked the first time palladium was ...
Online marketplace behemoth eBay said it plans to no longer accept American Express, citing what the company says are “unacceptably high fees” and that customers have other payment options to ...
The sale was secret, but word was quietly spread to selected western art dealers and collectors that the paintings were on the market. The first foreign buyer to purchase Hermitage paintings was Calouste Gulbenkian , the founder of the Iraq Petroleum Company , who began buying paintings in early 1930, trading them for oil with the Russians.