In the early years of the twilight struggle against the Soviet Union—as Joseph Stalin solidified control over Central and Eastern Europe—the United States established Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty ...

The Village Voice looks at "phantom utopias," lies told by today's despots to conjure memories of great autocratic times that never existed.

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At the end of 2024, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko attended a nationwide meeting of student teams in Minsk. At the ...

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A Soviet defector is now calling on President Donald Trump to save his business from the Russian government. Leonid Smirnov, ...

The fact that the Soviet Union is internationally prominent in sports in which ... and money but also with privileges and priorities in respect to living quarters, food supplies and vacations at ...

"We had Russia, we thought, under control with the breakup of the Soviet Union. We always thought China would be an economic threat," Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., a top member on the Armed Services ...

Hasn’t Russia (and the former Soviet Union) been one of India’s steadiest ... wheat, sugar and non-food items like copper, lead, nickel, aluminium, precious metals, silver, platinum, rubber ...