As Russia seeks influence in Africa, former students play central role
Going back to the days of the Cold War, many Africans studied in the Soviet Union and later Russia. They’re now among ...
An altercation erupts at a high-level meeting of a Russia-dominated economic union
A meeting of the Russia-dominated economic alliance of former Soviet nations has plunged into disarray when two of the ...
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Russia’s Energy Cutoff of Moldova: Crisis or Opportunity
The move was connected with, but not required by, the expiration at the end of 2024 of Russia’s contract with Ukraine for ...
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The Soviets sent most of its intellectuals to remote gulags. Decades later, those areas became more prosperous
A new study reveals that regions near Soviet GULAG camps are more prosperous today, thanks to the unintended legacy of ...
Russian drones kill Kyiv residents in their sleep during first hours of 2025
A Russian drone attack killed two residents in Kyiv during the first hours of 2025, hours before Moscow’s gas transit to ...
On This Day, Dec. 31: China reports first cases of COVID-19 to WHO
On Dec. 31, 2019, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission in China first reported a cluster of cases of pneumonia, later ...
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Ex-Soviet officials spar in live event
MOSCOW -- A tightly-scripted meeting of the Russia-dominated economic alliance of several ex-Soviet nations briefly ... meeting of the Eurasian Economic Union, which includes Russia, Armenia ...
Georgia: Pro-EU protesters, president form human chain
Demonstrators created a human "Chain of Unity" in Tbilisi, a month after the government delayed talks on joining the EU.
This tiny country is a laboratory for Russia’s dirty tricks
Especially since Russia’s assault on Ukraine in 2022, the entire country of 2.5m or so people, with a few peculiar ...
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Azerbaijani airliner with 67 people onboard crashes in Kazakhstan leaving 32 survivors
The plane was originally scheduled to travel from the Azerbaijani capital of Baku to the Russian ... a bloc of former Soviet ...
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A Bulgarian Attraction Holds One Of The World's Most Impressive Monuments From The Soviet Era
This gigantic monument in Bulgaria sits atop a desolate mountain and offers a grandiose (albeit crumbling) example of ...
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How a drab Soviet metropolis became Central Asia’s capital of cool
A few years after independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, the national capital was moved to Astana. Losing that revered status was a wake-up call for the city. Rather than sulk about the snub ...