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Dec 12, 2021 · Putin, who served in the Soviet-era KGB, has previously called the collapse of the Soviet Union, which was ruled from Moscow, as the "greatest geopolitical catastrophe" of the 20th century, but ...
A US journalist goes on trial in Russia on espionage charges that he and his employer deny. Inside Nato’s ‘museum of shame’ where Lenin planned bloody revolution. A century after Lenin's ...
Dec 24, 2021 · To understand the friction between Russia and Ukraine, it's important to go back to 1991. Exactly 30 years ago this weekend, the Soviet Union formally dissolved and broke up into 15 separate nations.
Dec 8, 2021 · MOSCOW (AP) — When the leaders of the Soviet Union’s three Slavic republics met at a secluded hunting lodge on Dec. 8, 1991, the fate of the vast country hung in the balance. With a stroke of their pens, they delivered a death blow to the USSR, triggering shockwaves that are still reverberating three decades later in the tensions between ...
Dec 25, 2021 · China's greatest success was the Soviet Union's biggest catastrophe: The economy. In the early days, the USSR was an economic rival to the United States, with a huge manufacturing capacity but, in ...
Oct 7, 2021 · The USSR's legacy 30 years on. Image by Giovana Fleck, used with permission. December 2021 marks the 30th anniversary of the end of the USSR, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, a country that lasted 79 years and covered about one sixth of the earth. Fifteen independent states have emerged from it, as well as a growing list of unrecognized ...
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Dec 21, 2021 · Washington, D.C., December 21, 2021 – On Christmas Day 30 years ago, the last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, stepped down and the hammer-and-sickle flags over the Kremlin were replaced with the red-white-and-blue of the Russian Federation. Triumphalists and conspiracy theorists ever since have attributed this epochal event to ...
