Putin is repeating a Soviet-era mistake that tanked the Russian economy, Polish foreign minister says
Poland's foreign minister said Putin used to criticize the Soviet approach that helped bankrupt it, but now he's repeating ...
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Putin says he pulled Russia back from the edge of the abyss
Putin, a former KGB spy who took the Kremlin's top job just eight years after the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, is the longest-serving Kremlin leader since Josef Stalin who died at his dacha ...
The rise of rock and rap in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union
Inevitably one furrows a brow (or two) at a jumped-up subtitle promising an “incredible true story,” but David Junk delivers ...
Britain Says Russian Spy Ship Returned to U.K. Waters in Sign of Kremlin Threat
The British defense secretary told Parliament that the Yantar, which he described as a Russian spy ship, had come near ...
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The Soviet Holiday Classic Even Kremlin Skeptics Can’t Stop Watching
premiered on millions of television sets in the Soviet Union on Jan. 1 ... frustrated by the pro-Kremlin bent of the shows they found there, they’ve switched to YouTube. Bulashevska said ...
When The United States Broke Into 2 Countries, Had 2 Presidents, 2 Flags
In 1861, when Republican leader Abraham Lincoln was on his way to becoming President of the United States of America, the ...
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3 lawyers for the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny are jailed by a Russian court
Three lawyers who once represented the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny were jailed Friday in Russia as part of the Kremlin’s ... levels unseen since Soviet times.
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Putin made decision to grant Assad asylum in Russia, Kremlin says
Assad's fall is a big blow to Iran and Russia ... Assad's father, Hafez al-Assad, sided with the Soviet Union to try to achieve parity with U.S.-backed Israel. The Kremlin said Syria was subject to ...
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Russia maintains recognition of Palestine’s independence since Soviet era — Kremlin
Russia, being an successor of the USSR, recognizes the independence of Palestine, and views the decision of a number of countries to do the same as such, Kremlin ... the Soviet Union era," the ...
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The Death of Ambassador Raymond Garthoff and Disarmament
No other work approaches them for their in-depth view of political and military events between the two superpowers in the key decades before the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The only ...