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Putin is repeating a Soviet-era mistake that tanked the Russian economy, Polish foreign minister says
Anders Åslund, a Swedish economist and former fellow at the Atlantic Council, said Russia's financial reserves could run out before the end of the year. The Soviet Union's economy collapsed in ...
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Castro and the Cold War
Castro's courtship of the Soviet Union began shortly after the revolution ... by U.S. counterinsurgency forces and betrayed by Soviet-run Communist parties the world over. Most poignantly, in ...
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 ...