On This Day: Soviet Union expels dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn
In 1974, the Soviet Union expelled dissident writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn. In 1983, a blaze engulfed a crowded movie theater ...
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Greetings to the Order of Zhukov – Marshal of the Soviet Union Konstantin Rokossovsky Far Eastern Higher Combined Arms Command School
Vladimir Putin sent greetings to the faculty and cadets of the Order of Zhukov – Marshal of the Soviet Union Konstantin Rokossovsky Far Eastern Higher Combined Arms Command School on its 85th ...
Spies or Scapegoats: Does New Evidence Exonerate the Rosenbergs?
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were put to death for spying for the Soviet Union. Decades later, we’re still grappling with what ...
Decades after leaving the Soviet Union the Baltics are in the final hours of relying on Russia
Decades after leaving the Soviet Union the Baltics are in the final hours of relying on Russia - All remaining transmission ...
Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. For 40 years, the chess world has been debating why ...
3 Baltic states disconnect from the Soviet-era grid to merge with the European energy system
The flow of electricity between the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and Russia has been officially severed ...
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What Suzanne Massie Taught Ronald Reagan About the Russians
How much do their leaders believe in communism?” That was the first question Ronald Reagan asked Suzanne Massie, the recently ...
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Putin Wants a Second Yalta: A Newer New World Order?
The necessity of a new division of the world between Russia, China, and the United States is being actively promoted by the Russian government and state propaganda against the background of the ...
On This Day: Communists give up monopoly of Soviet politics
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a series of reforms and the Communist Party gave up its 70-year monopoly of political power in the Soviet Union.
What USAID does, and why Trump and Musk want to get rid of it
Dozens of senior officials put on leave. Thousands of contractors laid off. A freeze put on billions of dollars in ...
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Baltic states disconnect from Soviet-era grid to merge with European system
This came more than three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, ending the Baltics’ final ties to oil and gas-rich Russia. For the three countries, as well as the rest of Europe ...