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2 days ago · The Leonid meteor shower occurs from about 14 to 20 November as the Earth passes through an old debris stream left by past passages of the comet Temple-Tuttle. The maximum rate occurs within a day or so of November 17 and is usually less than 10 per hour.
2 days ago · Widely considered one of the most significant and influential figures of the 20th century, Lenin was the posthumous subject of a pervasive personality cult within the Soviet Union until its dissolution in 1991. He became an ideological figurehead behind Marxism–Leninism and a prominent influence over the international communist movement.
5 days ago · The Leonid meteor shower is an annual shower that occurs between the 14th and 20th of November. It is the result of debris left behind by the passage of Comet Tempel-Tuttle as it moves in its orbit about the Sun. This orbit has a period of 33 years, and every 33 years or so the Earth passes through a larger than normal debris cloud from this comet.
4 days ago · About Leonid Fedun. A former military man-turned-financial whiz, Fedun met his partner Vagit Alekperov in the late 80's while teaching in the Siberian city of Kogalym. In the 1990s Fedun helped...
1 day ago · On 10 November 1982, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, the third General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and the fifth leader of the Soviet Union, died at the age of 75 after suffering heart failure following years of serious ailments.
4 days ago · Leonid Mikhelson is the founder and chairman of natural gas producer Novatek. In 2017 he bought a 17% stake in petrochemical company Sibur from Kirill Shamalov, Putin's reported former...
5 days ago · An outstanding Russian translator, writer, and radio presenter Leonid Volodarsky died at the age of 73 as a result of a long illness, APA reports.
