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STOCKHOLM (AP) — To join or not to join? The question of NATO arises this week in Finland and Sweden where Russia's invasion of Ukraineshattered the long-held belief that staying out of the military alliance was the best way to stay out!-->…

British travel vlogger Benjamin Rich, better known as "Bald and Bankrupt", has been arrested for "unlawful acts" at a Russian-controlled spaceport in Kazakhstan, officials say. The nature of the charges against him were not…

Although most don't recognize his name today, President Nursultan Nazarbayev's predecessor was known to almost everyone in the Central Asian country 30 years…

Biden has asked Congress to ease visa restrictions for highly educated Russians wishing to move to the United States. It would help deprive Putin of his "best…

When Dennis Green was a young, beginning farmer in southern Illinois in the 1970s, he didn't think much of the Soviet Union as a player in global agriculture.“Russia, Ukraine and some other countries were still part of the Soviet Union. In…

TEHRAN — Expressing concern over the expanding war in Ukraine, a nuclear physicist says all nuclear weapons are dangerous to world peace. “All nuclear weapons are dangerous, no matter who owns them. They will destroy us if we don't…

The separatist region considered a possible hot spot in UkraineSmall breakaway state reports series of attacksMoldova seeks to improve troop readiness for combatKremlin expresses deep concern, Ukraine blames MoscowAntónio Guterres calls for…

"Eat the rich!" It's a gathering weep for dozens of young people eager to get involved in political activism. But who are the rich? And what do they mean by "eat?"…

Madeline Roache apparently has a dream job: getting paid to watch TV and transcribe what she sees.Don't envy him. She watches the morning news in Russia.Roache is a London-based colleague and analyst at NewsGuard, which assesses the…

Placeholder while loading article actionsGlobal attention may be fixated on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but the world cannot afford to ignore problems elsewhere. China's new security pact with the tiny Solomon Islands is one example. It…

If you live in most Western countries, your government's support for Ukraine, including sending arms and imposing sanctions on Russia, can give the impression of a united global response to Vladimir Putin's invasion.But this is not the…

(CNN) — Watching the brutal footage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine has many around the world wondering why isn't the United Nations doing more to stop the war? Among them, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky…

It is naïve in the extreme to pursue the appeasement of a Kremlin dictator bent on exterminating a great European state. American policy must change. Russia must be stopped. This cannot be done by the United States slowing down the…

Nestled in the farthest corner of the woods, hidden hundreds of feet underground and filled with subterranean corridors and rooms reminiscent of past tensions, Greater Manchester is home to a series of little-known nuclear bunkers. They!-->…

By Robert Pawlicki InsideSources.com It has been two decades since we had Ukrainian guests in our house. My wife and I hosted many former guests from the Soviet…

Since Russian tanks and troops poured into Ukraine, the Biden administration has demanded that it do more on the military front: establishing a no-fly zone, supplying fighter jets to Ukraine and even prepare to send American troops into…

In 1991, when I was a student in Russia, the newly opened McDonald's in Moscow served as a symbol, a tourist attraction, and the only place - and I mean the only one - with clean public restrooms. The very idea of ​​clean…

Forty-two years after his fight for freedom from communism made him Chicago-area's most famous preteen, Walter Polovchak, a Ukrainian resident of Des Plaines, is angry about the war ravaging his homeland. He wants…

President Biden's speech in Warsaw on Saturday night reminded me of two previous presidents who gave speeches in the face of the autocracy that was then the Soviet Union and now is Russia, led by Vladimir Putin, a man Biden…

About thirty years after the end of the Cold War, tensions between the United States and Russia are escalating after Moscow launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than a month ago. In light of that, here are five Cold War films that…

The Arch of Friendship of Peoples, known in Soviet times as the Monument to the Reunification of Ukraine and Russia, was installed in 1982 to celebrate 60 years of the USSR and the 1 500 years of Kyiv."As now we want nothing to do with…

Ukraine needs boots on the ground to survive. So will the United States and NATO reconsider their decision and confront Russia?For months, US intelligence was aware of the possibility that Russia was planning to attack Ukraine without…

The conventional wisdom in Washington is that NATO should refrain from imposing a no-fly zone over Ukraine due to the risk of an all-out war between NATO and…

Stalinism's greatest success on Soviet society is remembered as the Great PurgeJoseph Stalin and Nikolai Yezhov in 1937 (Source: public domain)JThe Soviet purge is still remembered as the most terrifying time in communist society when the…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will deliver a virtual address to members of the US Congress on Wednesday, as Ukraine continues to press the United States for more help in its fight against the ongoing unprovoked and deadly invasion…

The Biden administration is said to be on the verge of lifting all sanctions against numerous of Iran's worst human rights violators and sponsors of terrorism in return for Iran's remarkably weak nuclear concessions. History has shown…

For a Brookhaven native who once lived in the former Soviet Union, Russia's invasion of Ukraine could be seen "on the horizon." Bill Perkins lived for 12 years in the Central Asian city of Almaty, in the former Soviet republic…

Photo by Gerard Malie/AFP via Getty Images No one really believed that the story ended in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall or in 1991 with the…

Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, saying his mission was to "denazify" the country while sending a message to NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization). Admittedly, Nazism is the drum that any politician can beat to justify…

In Europe's most defining hour since the collapse of the Soviet Union, as a vengeful and erratic autocrat invades Ukraine darkly alluding to the scale of its nuclear arsenal, a comedian has taken on the role by Winston Churchill. Volodymyr…

Amid ongoing Russian aggression against Ukraine, India has abstained from a US-sponsored United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution that deplores Russia's actions in the strongest terms. Explaining his abstention, India's permanent…

PODBORSKO, Poland - Scattered across the Polish forest like archaeological ruins, the crumbling concrete bunkers have stored Soviet nuclear warheads for decades. Today, they retain only the memories - deeply painful for Poland, joyful for…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! It was called a "sister city".The Berlin Wall had crashed into a pile of rubble. The Cold War was thawing. The Soviet Union would soon disintegrate as well. I worked as a reporter for WKRC-AM…

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) – Here in New Haven County there is a man with strong ties to Russia and Ukraine – even President Putin. He has an interesting perspective on what is happening in his native country. As Russia invades…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — It's been a long time since the threat to use nuclear weapons has been raised so openly by a world leader, but Vladimir Putin just did, warning in a speech that he has the guns available if anyone dares to use military…

What the "Simpsons" think today, the world thinks tomorrow. The show seems to have predicted the current crisis between Ukraine and Russia in 1998. In one of its episodes, the series once again predicted the return of the…

Moscow says Ukrainian armored vehicles tried to enter RussiaKiev calls Russian allegations 'fake news'Ukraine and West on high alert as Russia creates pretext to invade Macron proposes Biden-Putin summitWhite House says summit only possible…

Speaking to CNN, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said "any provocation is very dangerous" when asked about a potential false flag pretext for a war with Russia. "I think the most complicated question is that in the Crimea, in the…

So there is no real debate about what is happening at Ukraine's borders. The firepower is there to see, and it's part of Mr. Putin's strategy of coercion. The only mystery remaining is what Mr. Putin intends to do with it. At first, US…

VILNIUS, Lithuania — The military and political games Vladimir Putin is playing with all of Europe will continue whether Moscow invades Ukraine or not. Nowhere in Europe do leaders and citizens understand this hard truth better than in the…

In Parts 1 and 2, I reviewed the environmental costs that can arise during military conflicts. There are the obvious costs of war itself, but there are also hidden costs for things like post-war recovery and cyberattacks. In this last…

This is a multidimensional crisis. The first is a deeply historical and political question about Russia's position in Europe. If you look at the last four centuries, Russia was an integral part of the European order along with Prussia,…

When the Berlin Wall came down in November 1989, a cheer went up across the continent as it marked the end of communism in East Germany and Central Europe. This was followed in 1991 by the breakup of the!-->…

On July 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon addressed the nation on a live television broadcast to make an unexpected announcement: he had accepted an invitation from Beijing to become the first American president to visit the People's!-->…

MOSCOW - President Vladimir V. Putin has said he is ready to continue negotiations on Russia's security demands in Eastern Europe, but has issued a stern warning about the possibility of full-scale war between Russia and the West - in a…

IIf, as seems increasingly likely, Russia decides not to launch an all-out invasion of Ukraine, the American and British politicians who have spent weeks scaring the public into talking freely about impending Armageddon will have an…

BEIJING — Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Friday opened an Olympics meant to celebrate his country's increasingly secure global status, standing defiantly alongside his Russian counterpart, Vladimir V. Putin, in a competition of increasingly…

German Bundeswehr troopsThe more the US and NATO escalate their war campaign against Russia, the more aggressively the ruling class in Germany behaves. The media are caught up in a veritable war frenzy and demand that the German government…

BEIJING (AP) — The first so-called modern Olympics were held in 1896 in Athens. But the first Winter Olympics didn't take place until 1924 in Chamonix, France. Calvin Coolidge was the US President at the time, and Vladimir Lenin died that…

The prime minister has offered to sign a peace and friendship treaty with Pakistan. Surprisingly, Ms Gandhi made her offer at the end of her hour-long meeting with Pakistani journalists and not during the formal Indo-Pakistani…

With tens of thousands of Russian troops massed along the Ukrainian border, Moscow finds itself in one of its most tense clashes with the West since the fall of the Soviet Union. The Kremlin denies plans to invade Ukraine, but the…

By Ivana Kottasova and Bryony Jones, CNN NATO — the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, to give it its full name — is a non-aggressive European and North American defense alliance created to promote peace and stability and to…

On Sundays, parishioners of St. Sophia Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in The Colony recite a prayer for the "Old World.""We also pray for peace...especially for peace in Ukraine," the priest…

Russia's recent crypto ban has drawn criticism from several big names, including Alexei Navalny's chief of staff, Leonid Volkov, and Telegram founder, Pavel Durov. On January 20, the Central Bank of Russia released a report proposing a…

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — Ukrainian soldiers, Kalashnikov rifles slung over their shoulders, patrolled through a silent, snowy forest, past houses abandoned for so long that vines twirled through shattered windows.The fields lie fallow, the…

In the new Thing series, Ben Grimm mixes up history by calling Russia the USSR, which adds another puzzle to Marvel's tricky timeline. There is a time indicator in the new Thing series which…

A view of the Moscow Kremlin and St. Basil's Cathedral.Mikhail Japaridze | CASS | Getty ImagesBRUSSELS — Russia must move forward in the world and stop dreaming of rebuilding the Soviet Union, a senior Ukrainian diplomat has told CNBC as…

The Belarusian strongman has announced that his country and its close ally Russia will hold joint military exercises near the eastern borders of NATO and Ukraine in February, according to media reports. reported Monday.…

Belarusian Hanna Sola competes in the women's 4x6 km relay event at the IBU Biathlon World Cup in Ruhpolding, southern Germany, on January 14, 2022. (Photo by CHRISTOF STACHE / AFP) (Photo by CHRISTOF STACHE/AFP via Getty Images)Watch…

No less than three high-level talks between the United States (U.S.) and Russia over the past week have seemingly failed to resolve the standoff over Ukraine, a standoff in which Russia appears to hold all the strengths. It is said that…

Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov. (Photo by Denis Balibouse / AFP / Getty Images.)On Monday, Russian Lifetime President Vladimir Putin explained that the "peacekeepers" paratroopers…

You may not have been glued to the Finnish President's annual New Year's speech. It's understandable but unfortunate, because Sauli Niinisto said some remarkable things. His speech should give an idea to the European Union, to…

After World War II, Austria, like Germany, was divided between the Western powers and the Soviet Union. Like any spectator of The third man the film knows that Vienna, like Berlin, had four zones of occupation. Unlike the solution for…

Published on: 06/01/2022 - 21:46Amended: 06/01/2022 - 21:44 Paris (AFP) - The regime that has ruled Kazakhstan since the fall of the Soviet Union is coming to an end in a popular revolution…

What would later become the Prague Spring began with the accession, that day in 1968, of reformist Alexander Dubček to the post of first secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. Dubček tried to!-->…

Joe Biden: The president asterisk Biden won over 81 million votes in the 2020 presidential election, the highest number of presidential candidates in U.S. history. Would that be enough to give his presidency an air of legitimacy after his…

The end of the US military occupation of Afghanistan and the return of the Taliban to power have sparked an intense debate over the future goals and directions of US foreign policy. The main question is whether the US military withdrawal…

AdvertisingIt is December 10, 1989. A Mongolian band sings "The Sound of a Bell" in Sukhbaatar Square - symbolically awakening the Mongolian population and welcoming democracy. At this time, the Soviet Union was on the verge of…

The war between Finland and the Soviet Union was cold, not only in terms of the temperatures on the ground during the fighting, but also in terms of the feelings each side had for each other. Before World War II broke out in…

During the last years of Soviet communism, the English-speaking media focused heavily on political developments in the western regions of the USSR, with an!-->…

In Armenia, it is estimated that less than a quarter of residents had been vaccinated against COVID-19 by mid-December, even as the country fired vaccinated tourists.The numbers are nowhere near as striking in Glendale and Los Angeles…

A $ 2 billion B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is now visible on Google Earth after a Reddit user shared a photo of the plane flying over a farmer's field in Missouri.The user, as Hippowned, posted the photo of Davis, Missouri on Monday, which…

Over the past year, tensions between Russia on one side and Ukraine and the West on the other have erupted, fueling fears of yet another armed conflict. The two sides exchanged accusations of provoking a military escalation and there was…

At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union was trying to acquire a huge military outweighs its Western rivals. Nuclear weaponry was of course underway, but the Soviets were keen to improve and massively expand their air force.…

By Arul Louis * American realpolitik took a 180-degree turn between 1971 and today, but Washington continues to pay a heavy price for the decision that led it to turn a blind eye to the genocide perpetrated in Bangladesh by Pakistani…

(December 17, 2021) Eighty years ago this week, the Red Army drove the Wehrmacht from the gates of Moscow.…

Supporters and leaders of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata (BJP) party shout slogans during a rally in favor of a new citizenship law which opponents say threatens India's secular identity, in Kolkata, India on Friday February 7, 2020.…

Moscow - Russian President Vladimir Poutine claimed that the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s had left him so struggling financially that he was forced to work as a taxi driver to earn extra money. "Sometimes I had to…

December 12, 2021 12:01 AM (UTC + 04: 00) 190 Today marks the 18th anniversary of the death of Azerbaijani national leader Heydar Aliyev. The memory of the national leader is…

Nixon wanted the United States and China to act jointly against India and informed his Chinese counterpart of the movement of the US Naval Task Force through a map showing the deployment of US and Soviet forces. On this day in 1971, when…

“He has been generous not only to his staff, but to me as well,” she said in an email. "From our conversation I expected some wise advice and serious mentoring, which came, but not before he spent half…

After Stalin's death in 1953, his successors wanted a period of reflection with Washington. President Dwight Eisenhower obliged them with a period called "detente". This lasted until 1960, when a new Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev…

By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Siberian Gulag in the life of Yuriy Sokolov Soon after graduating from high school in Kiev, Ukraine at the age of 17, I was employed at the shipbuilding factory named Leninskaya Kuznitsa (Lenin's Forge), now known as…

Published on: 12/02/2021 - 03:50Amended: 12/02/2021 - 03:49 Stockholm (AFP) - Chief diplomats from the United States and Russia are due to meet in Sweden on Thursday as tensions soar after…

Both on climate change and on new dual-use technologies, Europe's founding peace project should go global. The devastation of the region during the two world wars deprived it of the desire to dominate others,…

Posted: 11/26/2021 22:10:27 PM Modified: 11/26/2021 22:10:11 PM I recently received an email from a friend, a heart cry from a beautiful gardener: "Climate change, COVID-19, conspiracy theories and…

ANI | Update: November 25, 2021 4:55 PM STI Taipei , November 25 (ANI): A dozen Lithuanian, Estonian and Latvian…

The United States and Russia are working together from Cuba to prevent further nuclear crises. The world's first nuclear arms race offers two important lessons on how to avoid a second: First, the United States and China should avoid…

The former Soviet Union launching the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, in space in October 1957 was a turning point in the history of mankind. He scored the first blow in the space race. The Soviets followed with a series…

It is often said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is "play a weak hand well. "But according to Catherine stoner, an expert on Russia at Stanford University, this conventional analysis is incomplete. She argues that…

The four male players elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2022 could be former Canucks. On Monday, the Hockey Hall of Fame finally inducted its Class of 2020, an honor delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Jarome Iginla, Marian…

Polish security personnel behind a barbed wire fence at the Belarusian-Polish border. Poland and ... Belarus clashed with thousands of migrants seeking entry into EU member Poland on November 9, with Warsaw saying the…

Back in the days when the Soviet Union collapsed, there was a lot of talk of a peace dividend - a sharp cut in US government spending on militarism. The dividends of peace did not come. Instead, the U.S. government began to spend…

08 NOVEMBER 2021 For nearly three decades, the Berlin Wall was the physical symbol of the Cold War, separating democratic West Berlin from communist East Berlin. Today we remember the East Germans who fled and those who died trying to…

Participants in the 36th Los Angeles Marathon set off for races on Sunday morning, and the male and female winners have already crossed the finish line. John Korir of Kenya is the winner in the men's race with a time of two…

November 6, 2021WASHINGTON DCAAMERICA A a math problem. Its students have been poorly ranked on international mathematics exams for decades. In 2018, 15-year-old Americans ranked 25th in the OECD, a club of predominantly rich countries.…

Russia is a true friend of Bangladesh. Diplomatic relations were established between Bangladesh and the Soviet Union on January 25, 1972. Next year will mark the 50e anniversary of bilateral relations. Bangladesh has maintained…

This image can be seen in many civil society organizations created in the 1990s, where a leader, or group of leaders, still sits at the helm all the time, working 20 hours a day without a personal life, on weekends. and vacations, building…

In summary Pentagon spending was once a huge factor in the California economy, and its decline tells us that we shouldn't take prosperity for granted. California has experienced…

This was the call of the American conservatives four decades ago when the solidarity movement of union leader Lech Walesa formed in the port city of Gdansk to demand their release from the communist system imposed on…

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Beneath the streets of Tbilisi is a network of Soviet-era tunnels, bomb shelters, and chambers that many residents know nothing about. Over the past few months, the photographer David Tabagari explored this silent underground world with…

Shavkat Mirziyoyev won Sunday's presidential poll in Uzbekistan to start another five years as head of Central Asia's most populous country. The incumbent has always been the big favorite to win the vote, and the only…

Russia and the United States released their latest nuclear weapons tally at a time when ties between Moscow and the US-led NATO military alliance were in freefall.The Russian Foreign Ministry on Monday released its latest report on "the…

Sixty-five years ago Soviet troops crushed the Hungarian revolution. The Soviet Union launched a propaganda campaign blaming the West for the uprising and bloodshed. Howard Norton, a reporter for the Baltimore Sun, reported from…

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The mainstream media, defending Biden's White House amid the president's polls, urged Americans to lower their expectations of daily living conditions instead of blaming the federal government for their new problems, the panel discussed on…

Oct 19, 2021 Left links of domestic spies Big budget movies like "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" and "True lies" sparked the intrigue with the shock of someone discovering that their spouse or…

"I assumed the MiG-31 pilot would love nothing better than an opportunity to fire his missiles at an SR-71 Blackbird," Ed Yeilding, SR-71 Blackbird pilot. “Flying straight towards…

JIUQUAN, China, October 16 (Reuters) - China on Saturday launched a rocket carrying three astronauts - two men and a woman - to the central module of a future space station where they will live and work for six months, the longest orbit…

The glaring errors became clear shortly after a former Wisconsin judge issued subpoenas earlier this month in a Republican review of the state's 2020 presidential election. Some of the requests referred to the wrong city. At least…

The Nobel Peace Prize awarded last week to Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, journalists from the Philippines and Russia respectively, was an important reminder of the vital role civic actors play in promoting international peace. It also…

Protein Plan and Green DealThe reasons for the commission's plan are manifold. Soybeans were previously mainly used to produce vegetable oils, but their market value exploded when what was left after oil production began to be used as a…

October 9, 2021HYDROGEN A controversial since the tragedy of the Hindenburg, a filled airship that caught fire in 1937. Boosters say gas is a low-carbon miracle that can power cars and homes. The hydrogen economy, they hope, will redraw…

The United States is committed to taking action so that the Babyn Yar tragedy is not repeated. “So on this anniversary, we honor the memory of all who are lost in Babyn Yar, we recommit ourselves to…

A former member of the Quad-City Symphony Orchestra is suing the organization, claiming he was fired for expressing widespread conservative beliefs about the Black Lives Matter movement. Yuri Grankin,…

BERLIN (AP) - The organization that handles claims on behalf of Jews who suffered under the Nazis said on Wednesday that Germany had agreed to extend compensation to Jewish survivors who endured the siege of Leningrad during the Second…

A University of Chicago associate professor of geophysics spoke out against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on Tuesday after the university canceled its invited lecture amid criticism from activist groups on campus.During…

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