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 ...
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 ...
The New York Times24d
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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine26d
Discover the Story Behind a Legendary Exposé of the Brutality of the Soviet Union
Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences as a ...
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 ...
The Independent6d
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.
Yahoo1mon
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 ...