Новости по теме history

Russia readies to exhume Tsar Alexander III in Romanov probe Russian investigators began examining the grave of Tsar Alexander III ahead of his exhumation in a probe looking to finally identify the remains of the last tsar Nicholas II and his family.

04 November 2015

Lure of gold draws hundreds to Bulgaria's rivers More than 2,000 years after the ancient Thracians crafted their exquisite jewelry from gold deposits in Bulgaria, hundreds are combing its rivers again in the hope of striking it rich in the EU's poorest country.

28 October 2015

Australia marks 30 years since Uluru returned to Aboriginal owners Australia marked 30 years since the world's largest monolith Uluru was returned to its traditional Aboriginal owners with the government admitting it has not lived up to commitments made back then.

26 October 2015

Fight for freedom, fight for Oscar: Kazakhstan nominates Yerzhan Turunov's Stranger Kazakhstan has nominated Yerzhan Tursynov's film Stranger (Zhat) for Oscar.

27 August 2015

Headless human remains discovered in ancient Hun burials in Kazakhstan Archaeologists in Kazakhstan are puzzled over headless remains found in ancient burials of Hun and Sarmat warriors.

27 August 2015

Khan Qoryk Festival to open in Ulytau in celebration of 550 anniversary of Kazakh Khaganate First youth festival Khan Qoryk dedicated to the 550th anniversary of Kazakh Khaganate opens in Kazakhstan.

17 August 2015

'Children of the aggressor': the Japanese war babies adopted by China Now 73 and sitting in his Tokyo home, Yohachi Nakajima fights back tears when he thinks of his Chinese adopted mother and the farming village he once called homeю

12 August 2015

Kazakh horses named the oldest domestic horse breed Kazakh horses are the oldest of domestic breeds that continues to inhabit the territories of its original formation said a Russian scientist Leonid Gaiduchenko.

10 August 2015

Draft of Japan PM's WWII statement includes 'apology': report A draft of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's statement to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II includes the word "apology".

10 August 2015

Doctor of Historical Sciences from Kazakhstan explains country's large territory According to Doctor of Historical Sciences Kanat Uskenbai, today Kazakhstan occupies the large territory thanks to its ancestors, who were nomads.

30 July 2015

After 'Goodbye Lenin', a Berlin resurrection Buried and long forgotten, the head of a giant Lenin statue is set to make a comeback in the German capital a quarter-century after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

23 July 2015

History will prove me right over security bills: Japan PM Prime Minister Shinzo Abe claimed his push to beef up Japan's military in the face of public and parliamentary opposition would be vindicated by history.

09 July 2015

Serbian PM to go to Srebrenica for massacre anniversary Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic of Serbia said he would attend the 20th anniversary commemoration of the Srebrenica massacre this weekend in a bid to forge reconciliation.

08 July 2015

Japan's Meiji industrial sites win UN world heritage status The UN's cultural body conferred world heritage status on a number of new sites including some seen as representative of Japan's industrial revolution.

06 July 2015

Japan marks 70th anniversary of Battle of Okinawa Japan marks the 70th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Okinawa, the bloodiest episode in the Pacific War, which killed a quarter of the island's population.

23 June 2015

'Brexit could be your Waterloo!' Le Monde warns Britain -- in English France's Le Monde newspaper used 200th anniversary of Napoleon's defeat to issue a warning to Britain -- in English -- saying: "Beware, Brexit could be your Waterloo!"

19 June 2015

Europe to mark Waterloo bicentenary with call for unity European royals and officials will mark the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo with a call for reconciliation at the site where Napoleon Bonaparte's imperial ambitions ended in carnage.

18 June 2015

Cambodia marks 'Day of Anger' to remember K.Rouge victims More than 1,000 people marked Cambodia's annual "Day of Anger" against the genocidal former Khmer Rouge regime.

20 May 2015

Britain's Prince Charles meets Irish republican leader Prince Charles became the first British royal to meet Irish republican leader Gerry Adams, on a visit that will take him to the scene of his great-uncle's murder by the IRA.

20 May 2015

Putin defends notorious Nazi-Soviet pact Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday defended the infamous pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

11 May 2015

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