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The U.S ice hockey team rushes toward goalie Jim Craig after their upset win over t stanley cup he Soviet Union in the semi-final round of the XIII Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, N.Y., Feb. 22, 1980.APBy Simon ShusterFebruary 14, 2014 4: stanley cup 52 PM ESTHalfway through the Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia Foreign Minister got so fed up with all the bad press that he decided to take up his pen and react. In the Western media, Sergei Lavrov wrote in an op-ed published Thursday, Feb. 13, in Russia Kommersant daily, a campaign of anti-Russian information has been launched, using terminology that is in the spirit of the Cold War. Then, for nearly 2500 words, he went on to eviscerate the West for its old-think biases. But if he felt the media was beating the dust stanley cup out of the Iron Curtain before, he should brace himself for this weekend.On Saturday, Russia and the U.S. will face off in an Olympic hockey match that is, in some fairly superficial ways, reminiscent of the so-called Miracle on Ice ndash; the epic game between the U.S. and Soviet Union not Russia during the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. In the American imagination, that game provided one of the defining narratives of the Cold War. A ragtag bunch of American college kids defeated the honed professionals of the Soviet hockey machine, who had dominated the Olympic hockey tournament for decades.No less than three American films have been made about that upset, the f Ksyp Car Company Manual Calls Women Co-Pilots Who Should Have Nice Legs
U.S. President Barack Obama, speaks at a graduation ceremony at the New Economic School in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, July 7, 2009.Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr鈥擝loomberg / Getty ImagesBy Barack ObamaJune 2, 2016 2:26 PM EDTPresident Barack Obama delivered the commencement address at The New Economics School in Moscow on May 7, 2009. The Pre yeezy sident told new graduates that the world destiny was in their hands and called on them to build a better world.You get to decide what comes next, he said. You get yeezy to choose where change will take us, because the future does not belong to those who gather armies on a field of battle or bury missiles in the ground; the future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.THE PRESIDENT: Thank you so much. Well, congratulations, Oxana. And to the entire Class of 2009, congratulations to you. I don ;t know if anybody else will meet their future wife or husband in class like I did, but I ;m sure that you ;re all going to have wonderful careers.I want to acknowledge a few people who are here. We have President Mikhail Gorbachev is here today, and I want everybody to give him jordan a big round of applause. Applause. I want to thank Sergei Gurief, Director of the New Economic School. Applause. Max Boiko, their Chairman of the Board. Applause. And Arkady Dvorkovich, who is the NES board member, President of the Alumni Association and is doing an excellent job for President M |
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