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For a Bloomberg Economics report on 10 lessons from South Africa's sanctions of the 1980s, please click here.Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Allied nations have unleashed a series of sanctions so swift and far-reaching that there are no…

Officials in eastern Ukraine on Sunday blamed Russian attacks on key facilities for widespread blackouts that have affected large areas of the country where Kyiv forces have made gains in a counteroffensive.…

As Ukraine prepared to celebrate its Independence Day even as its military forces battled a month-long Russian invasion, government officials assembled a grandiose, but macabre display on Khreshchatyk, the main street of the Ukrainian…

World famous zoologist Ilya Mechnikov was not safe in the city of Odessa. The soldiers dispersed the demonstrations. Students had disappeared. And the local police chief had put Mechnikov on a list of "politically…

Join now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comRegisterSept 2 (Reuters) - Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union's last leader, will be buried in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery on Saturday, but there is no official day of mourning and there…

FORT WORTH, Texas (KBTX) - The legacy of the Soviet Union's last leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, is remembered by the world after his recent passing, and one person remembering the former president - whom he knew personally - is a Texas A&M…

By Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) -- In…

A A concrete monument has been toppled in the Latvian capital as the backlash against Russia continues.The obelisk stood in the country's capital, Riga, since 1985, when the country was still part of the USSR.The monument, consisting of…

Today, the Russian Ministry of Justice is threatening the organization that helps emigrants to leave. A Moscow court held a preliminary hearing on July 28, 2022 regarding the ministry's request to disband the Russian branch of the…

A banner is held up by students in Johannesburg, South Africa's Soweto Township, October 18, 1976. | PA…

Millions of Angolans will vote this week in a historic election described as an "existential moment" for the main oil-rich central African state and a test for democracy in part of the continent.Wednesday's poll pits seasoned politicians…

In his autobiographical book, the president of USCIRF combines scholarship and personal memories to paint a horrifying scenario.by Marco RespintiNury Turkel (from Facebook)."The party apparatchik leading the meeting shouted to the assembled…

In the summer of 1941, as the outside world began to learn of the mass murders that accompanied the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, British Prime Minister…

It is always useful to engage the other side. Especially when you find the other side completely disconcerting. The other side I try to engage is American political conservatism. My guide today is Matthew Continetti, a brilliant…

A Ukrainian 58th artillery unit near the town of Bakhmut in the Donbass region on Wednesday.Credit...David Guttenfelder for The New York TimesKYIV, Ukraine - Despite heavy casualties during nearly six months of war, Russia still holds a…

Residents line up outside a water distribution point in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, last month.Credit...Daniel Berehulak for The New York TimesMYKOLAIV, Ukraine — The beleaguered city of Mykolaiv emerged Monday from a 54-hour lockdown in which…

ANKARA—Diplomatic relations between Turkey and Armenia have been frozen for nearly three decades due to long-standing historical animosities and Turkish support for Azerbaijan, Armenia's perennial enemy in the Caucasus region . But…

WASHINGTON- Samantha Power rose to prominence as a human rights advocate and was chosen by President Biden to lead the agency that distributes billions of dollars in U.S. aid overseas, including providing more food aid than anyone else in…

Comment this storyCommentItalian authorities are examining the case of a former senior Russian official who was hospitalized in Sardinia this week after suffering neurological symptoms, Italian media reported on Wednesday.Anatoly Chubais,…

Akshaya Mukul has named the full biography which summarizes various facets of Agyeya's life as Writer, Rebel, Soldier, Lover: The Many Lives of Agyeya. The book was published by Vintage, part of the Penguin Group. The book is huge not only…

Christopher Meyer, a British diplomat who, as ambassador to the United States, served as an intermediary between Prime Minister Tony Blair and the George W. Bush administration after the September 11 attacks and the build-up to war in Iraq…

An American flag flies outside the dome of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 15, 2020. Some media reports about the possibility of Nepal joining the US State Partnership…

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During his trip to Africa, Sergei V. Lavrov, the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, should try to portray Russia as the faithful ally of the continent.Credit...Byambasuren Byamba-Ochir/EPA, via ShutterstockPresident Vladimir V. Putin…

The UN and Turkey brokered an export deal between Ukraine and RussiaSigning ceremony with Russia, Ukraine and the UN at 13:30 GMTEncouraging sign of progress towards alleviating the global food crisisUkraine's Zelenskiy: Potential to turn…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has not discussed drone deliveries with either Iranian President…

25 years ago: International campaign releases imprisoned Sri Lankan Trotskyist Platform for a meeting organized by the SEP in August 1997 in Colombo to welcome the release of Selliah Rajkumar. Photo copyright: The BulletinOn July 20, 1997,…

Express press service KOCHI: The CICC Book House on Press Club Road turned 60 this month. The late freedom fighter and peace activist V 'Samadhanam' Parameswaran had established this bookstore in 1962. , peace in the…

Russian Tsar Peter the Great not only sought more power and territory, but also wanted his country to become more advanced and progressive. President Vladimir Putin achieves the opposite of his idol by isolating…

Although Israel has been at odds with many of its neighbors for most of its history, the United States has been the country's most consistent and important ally. Over the decades, successive US administrations have made it clear that…

Submitted by Svetlana Wasserman, Greenwich In the 1970s, my family and I fled the oppression of the Soviet Union and were welcomed as refugees in the United States. I have a lot of gratitude and love for this country which gave us a…

NEW YORK (WEB PR) July 07, 2022 The world unites…

The article was last updated at 10:13 UTC/GMT Lugano Declaration supporting Ukraine's recovery signed by over 40 nations Representatives of more than 40 countries as well as multilateral organizations such as the European Investment Bank…

If you've seen the recent news, you know that Flyers goalie prospect Ivan Fedotov has reportedly been detained by Russian authorities for "failing to enter the draft." We don't know what will happen to him. Will he be released and join…

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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. (Photograph by Bernd von Jutrczenka/picture alliance/Getty Images.)A new flashpoint between NATO and Russia's new expansionism erupted after Lithuania banned the transit of sanctioned goods from…

Placeholder while loading article actionsELMAU, Germany — In 1975, leaders of the world's wealthy democracies came together to address an energy crisis triggered by a war and runaway inflation. These same pain points plague their…

The 1960s and 1970s were a turbulent time in the United States. As turbulent as those times were, the last decade seems to be a mirror image of those years. Reading Dwight Chapin's memoir “The President's Man: The Memoirs of Nixon's…

June 21 (Reuters) - Estonia summoned the Russian ambassador on Tuesday to protest an "extremely serious" violation of its airspace by a Russian helicopter, the second time in less than two weeks that Tallinn has reprimanded the envoy of…

MOSCOW -- Gennady Burbulis, a top aide to Russian President Boris Yeltsin who helped prepare and sign the 1991 pact that led to the formal breakup of the Soviet Union, has died. He was 76 years old.As Secretary of State and First Deputy…

Placeholder while loading article actionsRussian gas attracted Europe because it was easy to transport and almost always available. Its role has increased in recent years as some European countries have decided to end coal and nuclear…

WASHINGTON — As the first bipartisan agreement on gun safety measures takes shape on Capitol Hill in years, Republicans and Democrats are scrambling to keep their compromise on track by sending disparate messages about its scope and its…

The new feature of Fair Observer FO° Insights gives meaning to current issues. We pose a series of quick questions to the best of our more than 2,500 contributors from over 90 countries who share their insights, insights and…

For all mankind Season 3 is set in 1992, about a decade after the Apollo-Soyuz mission in Season 2, and a lot has happened since then. The show's decades-spanning plot stems from a different outcome of the 1969 moon landing, in which the…

NUR-SULTAN – The Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Public Policy (NU GSPP) hosted a panel discussion on political instability in Central Asia on June 7, unpacking how society and government discourse have changed in the context…

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Placeholder while loading article actionsMore than 100 days of war in Ukraine not only triggered multiple political, economic and environmental crises; Vladimir Putin's invasion has also revived dangerous delusions in the West.A few months…

New sanctions were imposed on Russia on Friday by the European Union (EU) for its war in Ukraine. Among the sanctions was Alina Kabaeva, the alleged mistress of Russian President Vladimir Putin.The Official Journal of the European Union…

Congress rejected Reagan's request for more aid to the Contras. Cut off, the administration turned to an already established illegal effort to sell arms to Iran and use the money to fund the contras. It's a program that, when unveiled in…

Clearly, the Russian military is not the first-rate force that military planners have always assumed – or at least capable enough to defeat Ukraine. And yet, NATO would be unwise to rule out Moscow entirely, because geography gives…

(JTA) – Now streaming on Netflix: Scenes from inside a notorious Lithuanian prison whose inmates included Jews who were to be murdered by the Nazis and future Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Part of the fourth!-->…

There are many reminders for David Malukas of the spirit, sacrifice and strong work ethic his parents possess and instilled in him as he prepares to race his first Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge this…

More than 75 years ago, the United States conducted the first-ever nuclear weapons test. Since then, nations have raced to design and develop these incredibly powerful bombs. While these are impressive scientific feats, they have…

Barentsburg (Svalbard) (AFP) - War may be a long way off, but tensions over the Ukraine conflict are causing an unprecedented chill in a remote Arctic town where Russian and Ukrainian coal miners have worked side by side for…

The red Soviet flag, famous for its hammer and sickle, was last lowered in December 1995 upon the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Mikhail Sheremet, deputy of the Russian State Duma, called for the reappearance of the red communist…

The French car manufacturer Renault announcement Monday that he was leaving Russia as part of a deal negotiated with the Russian government that would give Renault the option of resuming operations in the country at a later date.Under the…

Forty-two years later, and it still seems like yesterday for Jack O'Callahan. O'Callahan was a defenseman for the 1980 United States Olympic men's hockey team that won the "Miracle On Ice" victory over the mighty Soviet Union at the Winter…

Vaira Vike-Freiberga (center), then President of Latvia, smiles as former NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (right)…

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…