On This Day: Soviet Union expels dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn
In 1974, the Soviet Union expelled dissident writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn. In 1983, a blaze engulfed a crowded movie theater ...
Images of Ukraine, When Things Began to Fall Apart
The citizens photographed by Boris Mikhailov in the last days of the Soviet Union evoke laughter and sympathy in a show at ...
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As fights rage over DOGE and USAID, farmers battle decades of government failure | Opinion
The controversy over Trump’s USAID spending cuts shows us how rapidly swinging government policies can leave American farmers trapped and forgotten.
Decades after leaving the Soviet Union the Baltics are in the final hours of relying on Russia
Decades after leaving the Soviet Union the Baltics are in the final hours of relying on Russia - All remaining transmission ...
Russian TV falls for fake report on DeepSeek's 'Soviet code'
A spoof Russian news report that China's DeepSeek AI app was based on a secret Soviet code has found its way onto state TV, ...
On This Day: Communists give up monopoly of Soviet politics
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a series of reforms and the Communist Party gave up its 70-year monopoly of political power in the Soviet Union.
3 Baltic states disconnect from the Soviet-era grid to merge with the European energy system
The flow of electricity between the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and Russia has been officially severed.
‘Back in the USSR’: The Paul McCartney solo album released exclusively in Soviet Russia
Revisiting 'Back in the USSR', a forgotten solo album by former Beatles member Paul McCartney which was released exclusively in the Soviet Union back in 1988.
Russian TV falls for fake report claiming DeepSeek used ‘Soviet code’
Russian state TV mistakenly reports satirical story about AI technology linked to the Soviet Union, igniting national pride.