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The assassination of US President John F. Kennedy.

In the autumn of 1959, an American citizen who arrived in the USSR on a tourist visa applied to the official authorities for a grant of Soviet citizenship.

After some time, the request of the American citizen was granted.

His city of Minsk, the capital of the Byelorussian SSR, was defined as his place of residence.

The name of this American was Lee Harvey Oswald, and Minsk became his home for two and a half years.

Four years later, in November 1963, this man's photographs will be printed on the front pages of the largest newspapers next to the photograph of John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

The authors of the program invited people to the studio who, from 1959 to June 1962, met Oswald in Moscow and Minsk and could tell a lot about what kind of person he was.

A man whose name has been inextricably linked to the name of John F. Kennedy for many years.

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Earthquake in Armenia in 1988.

The chronicle of the flight of the reusable spaceship "Buran".

Baklanov Oleg speaks about the space-to-earth system.

Lozino-Lozinsky Gleb speaks about the project of the orbital plane "Spiral" and the ships "Shuttle" and "Buran".

Chronicle of the flight of the shuttle spaceship Shuttle.

Ryabov Yakov talks about supervising the project "Buran".

Baklanov Oleg speaks about the capabilities of a super-powerful launch vehicle.

Igor Zverev, Georgy Kostin, Menshikov Valery talk about the creation of special productions for the construction of the ship "Buran".

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The conflict between North and South Korea (1950-53)

The catastrophe of the ship "Alexander Suvorov" June 5, 1983.

Katyn massacre, 1940 year.

For decades, the theme of the Katyn tragedy remained in our country under the ban, or rather, it simply did not exist.

But historians, political and state figures did not leave any attempts to learn about what really happened in that far 1940 near Smolensk.

In September 1939 in the hands of the NKVD was about 120 thousand Polish soldiers.

In May 1940, news of the Poles in the Soviet camps stopped coming to their homeland.

In 1943 the world flew around the message of the German command that under Smolensk there were found the burials of Polish prisoners of war who were shot by the NKVD in 1940.

Documents, facts and eyewitness accounts indicate that over 20,000 officers were shot on orders from the USSR's top leadership.

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Videorecord: negotiations of Viktor Chernomyrdin with the President of Tajikistan E. Rakhmonov.

Boris Yeltsin's meeting. and Rakhmonov E.

The signing by the Presidents of Russia and Tajikistan of an agreement on the protection of the Tajik-Afghan border.

The withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan in February 1989.

The beginning of hostilities on the Tajik-Afghan border on the night of July 13, 1993.

Lieutenant Merzlikin reports on the release of the surviving border guards of 12 outposts from the encirclement.

Weekdays Moscow border guard.

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On the night of 3 to 4 June 1989, a gas explosion occurred on the Asha-Ulu-Telyak stretch due to a gas pipeline failure.

At that moment two counter trains came to the place of the accident: Adler-Novosibirsk and Novosibirsk-Adler.

As a result of the explosion, both compositions were completely destroyed, about 1000 people died (accurate data are still not available).

The investigation into the disaster case was originally initiated by officials from the Ministry of the Gas Industry, top-ranking leaders who They demanded to take a gas pipeline with numerous shortcomings, however, in a few months the case was terminated, and only a few builders appeared before the court.

The Ashinskaya catastrophe is the peak of the consequences of the existence of an ineffective, emergency economic system, a system of general irresponsibility that has been shaking the USSR for 70 years.

The guests of the program together restore the course of events, talk about the details of the disaster, about the investigation, about the dead friends and relatives.

The conversation involved journalist Alexander Borin, conductor of the train "Novosibirsk-Adler" Alexander Trifonov, passenger train "Novosibirsk-Adler" Herman Ruddy, investigator Salavat Karimov, chairman of the Omsk Association of Victims of the Railway Catastrophe near Ufa Ivan Mikheev.

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Newsreel of the 1970s: views of New York, behind the scenes a message "Radio Liberty" about the death of writer Sergei Dovlatov (synchronously).

Fragments of the newsreel "Leningrad Newsreel" in 1963: a working day in the editorial office of the journal "Neva", the editor-in-chief Sergei Voronin gives an interview about the meeting of the leaders of the party and government about a meeting with representatives of the creative intelligentsia.

Types of Tallinn in the 1970s.

Kinds Pushkinogorsky reserve, people on excursion.

The editor-in-chief of Zvezda magazine Andrei Ariev speaks about the first stories of Sergei Dovlatov, read by him in 1960, about Dovlatov's work in the 1960s and the 1970s, his poems, the ideological atmosphere of Leningrad in those years, Dovlatov's publications in magazines, the reasons for Dovlatov's move to Tallinn, his life and work in Tallinn, the return of Dovlatov to Leningrad, the attention of the KGB to Dovlatov, the arrest of Dovlatov by the police, the meeting with Dovlatov in New York, the reasons for Dovlatov's departure to the West.

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