On a rainy night in Wellington’s Aro St, the Security Intelligence Service (SIS) gatecrashed a meeting between William Sutch and Dimitri Razgovorov. They believed Sutch, a prominent economist and former senior public servant, was passing information to Razgovorov, a Soviet diplomat.
Russia
Events In History
17 February 1873
On 17 February 1873, Aucklanders awoke to the alarming news that a Russian warship had entered Waitematā Harbour undetected and landed troops.
Articles
Allies
The military alliance that fought against the Central Powers was known as the Allies. Initially this alliance was based around the four great powers of Russia, France, Japan and the British Empire, along with the smaller states of Serbia, Montenegro and Belgium that also went to war in 1914. Read the full article
Page 10 - The Russian Empire
Key information and statistics about the Empire of Russia during the First World
The Ottoman Empire
Few Kiwis today know much about one of our main First World War enemies, the Ottoman Empire - a sophisticated but often forgotten empire whose soldiers fought against New Zealand troops for four years in the Gallipoli, Sinai and Palestine campaigns. Read the full article
Page 5 - Ottoman Empire at war
How the Ottoman Empire fared during the First World War
Page 6 - The Armenians' suffering
Turkey has always denied accusations that the Ottoman authorities committed genocide against their Armenian
Page 10 - Birth of the Turkish Republic
The Birth of the Republic of Turkey from 1920-23
