Soviet Union
Sept. 1 2019, 3:03 pm
RFE/RL: ‘Soviet Paradise’ on show during Nazi nightmare (PHOTOS)
In German-occupied Prague, a disturbing exhibition of “souvenirs” captured during the Nazi invasion of the U.S.S.R. shows how one totalitarian regime …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Aug. 29 2019, 5:05 pm
Associated Press: Estonia plans fireworks to mark 1994 exit of Russian troops
Estonia is planning to mark the 25th anniversary of the withdrawal of the last Russian troops from the country by fireworks in Tallinn on …
Associated Press
Aug. 23 2019, 1:58 pm
RFE/RL: Prague statue of Marshal Konev vandalized
A statue in Prague of Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev has been vandalized on the anniversary of the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Read more …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
July 24 2019, 9:09 pm
Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces to phase out Soviet weapons in next few years
The Special Operations Forces (SOF) of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are planning to integrate into NATO’s collective security system in the next three …
Interfax-Ukraine
June 20 2019, 3:40 pm
Expess.co.uk: How long will area of Chornobyl be uninhabitable?
The Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine suffered a major nuclear disaster in the wee morning hours of April 26, 1986. A failed safety test …
Express.co.uk
May 30 2019, 3:53 pm
RFE/RL: Moscow intellectuals, dissidents rally around Gulag historian facing trial
Prominent Russian intellectuals and Soviet-era dissidents have attended an event to support gulag researcher and historian Yury Dmitriyev, who is on …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
April 2 2019, 2:22 pm
CNN: Photographs capture world inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
When photographer David McMillan first visited the city of Pripyat in 1994, he expected his movements to be restricted. Just eight years prior, a …
CNN
March 12 2019, 12:13 pm
UNIAN: Elon Musk acknowledges Ukraine’s ‘major role’ in Soviet cosmonautics
U.S. businessman and inventor Elon Musk has said Ukraine played a major role in the Soviet cosmonautics. Read more here.
UNIAN
March 1 2019, 2:36 pm
The Guardian: Revisiting Chernobyl, ‘it is a huge cemetery of dreams’
The 1986 nuclear disaster blighted Ukraine and changed the world. Serhii Plokhy, who won the Baillie Gifford prize for his history of the tragedy, …
The Guardian
Feb. 26 2019, 10:01 am
Al Jazeera: Soviet architecture in Ukraine
Square and simple. Red bricks. Five flights of stairs. No elevator. Branches and dry leaves climb along the facades, between balconies. The structures …
Al Jazeera
Jan. 30 2019, 4:36 pm
Reuters: Patriotic war film draws 8 million Russians as ties with West fray
A state-funded Russian film that lionises a Soviet World War Two tank and its crew has become the second highest grossing home-grown production since …
Reuters
Jan. 25 2019, 5:43 pm
Polygraph: Russian politician says Russia never killed dissidents, later apologizes
On January 11, the Russian nationalist publication Zavtra published an interview with Sergei Nosov, governor of Russia’s Magadan region, who claimed …
Polygraph
Jan. 25 2019, 5:00 pm
Washington Post: Ordinary people lived in a replica of Soviet times, were they abused for art in a daring new film?
In 2009, more than 400 people put their lives on hold and entered a facsimile of a Soviet research plant, where they conducted experiments, gossiped, …
Washington Post
Jan. 4 2019, 2:15 pm
UNIAN: Law on termination of Treaty of Friendship with Russia published in Ukraine
Ukrainian law No. 0206 on the termination of the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Partnership between Ukraine and the Russian Federation was …
UNIAN
Jan. 1 2019, 12:35 pm
RFE/RL: Why Russia’s New Year looks like Christmas
How communist grinches stole Christmas, and ordinary Russians reclaimed it. Read more here.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Dec. 19 2018, 3:32 pm
RFE/RL: Russians’ regret at USSR’s collapse hits 14-year high
More Russians regret the breakup of the Soviet Union than at any other time since 2004, an opinion poll shows. Read more here.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Dec. 7 2018, 1:41 pm
UkrInform: Declaration on 85th anniversary of Holodomor in Ukraine co-authored by 38 UN member states
Thirty-eight UN member states have become the co-authors of the Declaration on the 85th anniversary of the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine. Read …
UkrInform
Dec. 5 2018, 2:53 pm
Washington Post: Why it’s time to give the Soviet Union its due for World War II
Today is the anniversary of the opening of the 1941 Soviet offensive at the Battle of Moscow: the first major defeat suffered by Nazi Germany and …
Washington Post
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