For most of us in the West, until the fall of the Berlin Wall “Russia” was synonymous with the Soviet Union. Among the 15 ...
The new memorial day, which was signed into law by Russian President Vladimir Putin last month, will go into effect this year ...
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In January 2017, the CIA released a large number of newly-declassified documents about information collected on the Soviet Union. One of those documents included two pages of Russian jokes about the ...
MINSK, 20 November (BelTA) - Russia will continue to seek international recognition and condemnation of the genocide of the Soviet people; the crimes of the Nazis have no statute of limitations, ...
UNDER STRICT EMBARGO UNTIL 19:01 US EDT ON SUNDAY 20 TH JULY 2025 / 00:01 UK TIME (BST) ON MONDAY 21 ST JULY 2025 Overlooked diaries written by teenage boys in pre-war Soviet Russia reveal relatable ...
“Podnieks on Podnieks” is the story of a phenomenally influential Latvian documentarian who is remembered by relatively few today – but whose work was once seen by over 40 million people in the former ...