Soviet Union
March 23 2018, 12:05 pm
The New Yorker: Searching for memory of the Gulags in Putin’s Russia
Here are some of the things that you will not find if you go looking for traces of the Soviet Gulags: memorials at every known execution site, museums …
The New Yorker
March 18 2018, 9:31 am
Agence France-Presse: 5 key dates for post-Soviet Russia
MOSCOW – Here are five major dates in Russia since the disintegration of the USSR or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Read more here.
Agence France-Presse
March 6 2018, 11:15 am
RFE/RL: Stalin’s legacy- son of an ‘enemy of the people’ vows he’ll never forget
Every Wednesday, Aleksei Nesterenko stands outside building No. 23 on Moscow’s Nikolskaya Street with a sign calling for it to be turned into a branch …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Nov. 26 2017, 10:48 am
The Sun Daily: Ukraine remembers millions of victims of Stalin-era famine
Ukraine on Nov.25 held a day of mourning for the millions of victims of a Soviet-era famine, as the war-torn nation’s leaders branded it a Russian …
The Sun Daily
Nov. 26 2017, 9:19 am
RFE/RL: Poroshenko calls on Russia to ‘repent’ for Holodomor
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has called on Russia to recognize the famine that killed millions of people in Ukraine under Soviet dictator …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Nov. 12 2017, 12:29 pm
Stop Fake: Top Russian lawmaker denies communist regimes killed 100 million people
Alexey Pushkov, the chairman of the Commission on Information Policy of the Federation Council, the upper chamber of Russia’s parliament said “100 …
Stop Fake
Oct. 21 2017, 9:30 am
Agence France-Presse: No pomp as Russia revolution centenary nears
MOSCOW – A century after its revolution shook the world, Russia strives to strike an odd balance between remembering the uprising that brought about …
Agence France-Presse
Aug. 17 2017, 9:28 am
BBC: Wall of Grief – Russia remembers victims of Soviet repression
Vera Golubeva spent six years in a Stalinist labour camp for telling a joke. In 1951 she was labelled an enemy of the people and sent to Siberia. “It …
BBC
Aug. 14 2017, 5:47 pm
DW: Report says North Korea’s missile program linked to Soviet technology
Defense researchers linked the momentuous advances in North Korea’s missile system to technology found in the Soviet RD-250 family of rocket engines, …
Deutsche Welle
May 28 2017, 2:11 pm
RFE/RL: Russian Orthodox Church using social media to connect kids, clerics
ULYANOVSK – Earlier this month, several hundred schoolchildren in the central Russian city of Ulyanovsk were gathered in a municipal cultural center …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
March 31 2017, 5:36 pm
The Guardian: Russia’s 1989 plea for a new world order was rejected, and so Putinism was born
Long before Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, the stage was set for Russia’s current confrontation with the west by the failure to achieve a …
The Guardian
Feb. 16 2017, 4:29 pm
The Guardian: Bolsheviks capture Kyiv – archive, 1918
16 February 1918: Little by little the counter-revolutionaries were forced back by artillery and by bayonets. A report transmitted through the …
The Guardian
Dec. 27 2016, 11:28 am
RFE/RL: Putin touts ‘new integraton’ of former Soviet states on economy, defense
Russian President Vladimir Putin met with the leaders of several former Soviet republics in St. Petersburg on Dec. 26 on the 25th anniversary of the …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Dec. 26 2016, 5:55 pm
The Guardian: ‘We got Christmas back’ – readers mark 25 years since fall of Soviet Union
After years of food shortages, rising nationalist movements and an attempted coup, Mikhail Gorbachev, the president of the Soviet Union, resigned on …
The Guardian
Dec. 23 2016, 6:47 pm
Poll shows over half of Russians regret dissolution of Soviet Union
MOSCOW – The share of Russians aware of the Bela Vezha agreement signed on Dec. 8, 1991, which terminated the Soviet Union and created the CIS, has …
Interfax-Ukraine
Dec. 13 2016, 10:01 am
Associated Press: Gorbachev says US was short-sighted on Soviets
MOSCOW – As the Soviet Union was breaking up 25 years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev expected the United States and its Western allies to provide vital aid. …
Associated Press
Dec. 8 2016, 6:55 pm
RFE/RL: End of an empire – 25th anniversary of Soviet collapse (PHOTOS)
On Dec. 8, 1991, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus declared that the Soviet Union had “ceased to exist.” Twenty-five years later, we look …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Dec. 7 2016, 8:07 pm
The Guardian: My hunting trip with Yeltsin killed off the Soviet Union
The man whose signature in effect dissolved the Soviet Union 25 years ago on Thursday has admitted that was not his intention as he travelled to the …
The Guardian
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