Uzbekistan is a landlocked country in Central Asia that gained its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. It is bordered by Kazakstan to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to ...

Alan Garcia is the President of Peru and leader of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA). Garcia's first term in office, from 1985 to 1990, was marked by severe ...

Chiang Kai-shek was a military and political leader of the Kuomintang and the Republic of China, both on the mainland of China and later on the island of Taiwan. He ...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a 1975 film directed by Milos Forman. An adaptation of the Ken Kesey novel, Cuckoo's swept the 1976 Academy Awards, earning ...

Aleksandr Lukashenko is the President of Belarus. He was elected in the country's first presidential election which was held in 1994. Under Lukashenko's leadership, Belarus has established economic ...

Gyanendra was the last king of Nepal. He reigned briefly in the early 1950s, and resumed the throne in 2001. A controversial figure due to his authoritarian and occasionally repressive ...

A nationalist philosophy that glorifies race above the individual and has a government headed by a dictator. Countries with a fascist government have a tendency to be more violent as ...

The Golden Compass is the first volume in Philip Pullman's fantasy series, His Dark Materials. In 2007, the book was adapted into a film by director Chris Weitz.