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CANADIAN JOURNALIST FLORENCE HARPER COVERED THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, BUT ALMOST NO ONE KNOWS HER STORY
Florence MacLeod Harper was one of the few Western women to cover the Russian Revolution of 1917, but almost no one knows this Canadian's story... READ MORE›
100 YEARS ON FROM THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
In its turn, the events of October Revolution were orchestrated by Bolsheviks who overturned the interim provisional government and established the Soviet Union... READ MORE›
A CENTURY AFTER THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION, RUSSIA HAS ITS TSAR
But Russian President Vladimir Putin, the longest-serving Russian leader since Stalin, is not publicly commemorating the centennial... READ MORE›
IT SHOOK THE WORLD THEN IT FAILED
For some, the Soviet Union was always beyond criticism - the cause transcended the crimes... READ MORE›
PUTIN OPENS FIRST SOVIET VICTIMS MEMORIAL
President Vladimir Putin has unveiled Russia's first monument to people killed in political repression under Communist dictator Joseph Stalin... READ MORE›
NOVEMBER IS COMING: RELIVE THE CLIMAX OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION WITH #1917LIVE
By October 25, the Military-Revolutionary Committee MRC has been set up by Vladimir Lenin's 'no.1 Bolshevik,' Leon Trotsky... READ MORE›
'MATILDA' FILM ON LAST CZAR'S AFFAIR, SPARKS CONTROVERSY IN RUSSIA
Putin's push for national pride and increasing support for the Orthodox Church helped stoke opposition to the film... READ MORE›
19 KILLED IN RUSSIA AFTER TRAIN HITS BUS STUCK ON CROSSING
Uzbekistan's Foreign Ministry says 19 citizens of the former Soviet nation were killed when a train slammed into a bus carrying them near Moscow... READ MORE›
BUS CRASH AT RAILWAY CROSSING KILLS 16 IN RUSSIA
Russian media report that the bus engine may have stalled after the driver ignored a red warning signal... READ MORE›
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TRUMP EMBRACES ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE, A PHRASE WITH A FRAUGHT HISTORY
Trump Embraces Enemy of the People, a Phrase With a Fraught History... READ MORE›
ANALYSIS | TRUMP CALLED THE NEWS MEDIA AN 'ENEMY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.' HERE'S A HISTORY OF THE TERM.
For foes of Joseph Stalin, being branded an enemy of the people was a death sentence... READ MORE›
25 YEARS LATER: 7 SHOCKWAVES FROM BREAKUP OF SOVIET UNION
The Soviet Union broke up without a civil war, thank God, says Yevgeny Roizman, 54, a historian and mayor of Yekaterinburg, Russia's third-largest city, which borders Siberia... READ MORE›
CRIMEANS BACK RUSSIAN TAKEOVER: IF THEY TRY TO TAKE IT BACK, I WILL FIGHT
There is popular support for Russian President Vladimir Putin's plans to build a bridge across the Kerch Strait to integrate Crimea with mainland Russia... READ MORE›
A MAN PLAYED 'POKEMON GO' IN A RUSSIAN CHURCH. HE MAY SPEND 3 1/2 YEARS IN PRISON FOR IT.
Ruslan Sokolovsky, a blogger who played Pokemon Go on his phone in a church, attends a hearing at a court in Yekaterinburg on March 13... READ MORE›
WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE MISS THE SOVIET UNION?
Russia will mark the 25th anniversary of the Soviet Union's dissolution at the end of the year... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC BATTALIONS STOCKED WITH CHECHENS AID UKRAINE IN WAR WITH REBELS
In Ukraine, the Dzhokhar Dudayev and Sheikh Mansur units are mostly Chechen, but they include Muslims from other former Soviet areas, such as Uzbeks and Balkars... READ MORE›
RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH OUTSIDE RUSSIA CALLS FOR LENIN'S BODY TO BE REMOVED FROM RED SQUARE
Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia calls for Lenin's body to be removed from Red Square -- RT Russian politics... READ MORE›
IN 1983 WAR SCARE, SOVIET LEADERSHIP FEARED NUCLEAR SURPRISE ATTACK BY U.S.
In 1983 we may have inadvertently placed our relations with the Soviet Union on a hair trigger the review concluded... READ MORE›
PUTIN SAYS RUSSIA BEEFING UP NUCLEAR ARSENAL, NATO DENOUNCES 'SABER-RATTLING'
Putin made his comments a day after Russian officials denounced a U.S... READ MORE›
IRAN TROOPS TO JOIN SYRIA WAR, RUSSIA BOMBS GROUP TRAINED BY CIA
At the United Nations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a news conference Moscow was targeting Islamic State... READ MORE›
NEWS ANALYSIS IN PUTINS SYRIA INTERVENTION FEAR OF A WEAK GOVERNMENT HAND
That belief is widely shared in Russia, and is one reason for Mr. Putin's genuine popularity at home... READ MORE›
'WE LAUNCH SYRIA AIR STRIKES IN ONE HOUR. STAY OUT OF THE WAY'
Vladimir putin orders airforce into action over syria in first russian war in middle east since end of soviet union... READ MORE›
CLOSE MILITARY ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE WEST AT COLD WAR LEVELS
Black Sea encounter On 7 September, the Canadian frigate Toronto was buzzed by a Russian aircraft in the Black Sea with the plane coming within 300 metres... READ MORE›
READ PUTIN'S U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY SPEECH
Russia believes in the huge potential of the United Nations, which should help us avoid a new global confrontation and engage in strategic cooperation... READ MORE›
VLADIMIR PUTIN VOWS THAT UNITED STATES 'WILL NEVER SUBJUGATE RUSSIA'
Before his speech on Tuesday, the Russian leader was shown a new military vehicle described as a cross between a car and an armoured personnel carrier... READ MORE›
PUTIN SAYS WEST IS PROVOKING RUSSIA INTO NEW COLD WAR AS SPIES DEPORTED
Photograph Tass Barcroft Vladimir Putin has suggested to a German interviewer that the west is provoking Russia into a new cold war... READ MORE›
RUSSIA COMPLAINS OVER 'GAY BAR' ON PRESIDENT'S PLOT IN FINLAND
The archipelago lies between Finland and Sweden, but one uninhabited property is owned by the Russian presidency, having once been owned by a German-Finnish couple... READ MORE›
'NAZI GOLD TRAIN' FOUND IN POLAND COULD BELONG TO RUSSIA AS COMPENSATION FOR WW2
Nazi 'gold train' Treasure could be claimed by Russia as compensation for Second World War... READ MORE›
WHY RUSSIA IS IN SYRIA
Russian President Vladimir Putin right and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad shake hands in Moscow's Kremlin on Dec... READ MORE›
SOVIET LEADER GORBACHEV SAYS A NEW UNION COULD RISE AGAIN
Gorbachev may well have a rose-tinted view of the Soviet Union, but many in Russia feel the same... READ MORE›
RUSSIAN COMMUNIST PARTY LAUNCHES 'LENIN SELFIE' PROJECT
With so many statues scattering the country, Russian youth have been taking pictures of Lenin long before the Communist party launched the hashtag... READ MORE›
US AND POLAND IN TALKS OVER WEAPONS DEPLOYMENT IN EASTERN EUROPE
An alliance summit in Wales last year agreed quick deployments of Nato forces in Poland and the Baltic states... READ MORE›
RUSSIA EXHUMES CZAR NICHOLAS II IN SLAYINGS PROBE
But in July this year, at the request of the Russian Orthodox Church, further identification tests were ordered, according to officials... READ MORE›
AFTER A PROMISE TO KEEP IN TOUCH OBAMA AND MODI GET A HOTLINE
It proved to be an important mechanism for the United States and the Soviet Union to clarify their intentions to each other during the Cold War... READ MORE›
CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER SHIRTFRONTS VLADIMIR PUTIN INSTEAD
But in three encounters with the Russian president in six days the Australian prime minister largely seems to have missed his chance... READ MORE›
SEMYONOVKA JOURNAL UKRAINE BAN ON RUSSIAN SYMBOLS FUELS FIGHT OVER NATIONAL IDENTITY
One of the largest Lenin statues in Ukraine, in the city of Kharkiv, was dismembered... READ MORE›
FRENCH INTERIOR MINISTER QUITS OVER HOLIDAY JOBS FOR HIS DAUGHTERS
At the height of the Fillon scandal in February, Le Roux was one of the first to call for greater transparency in French political life... READ MORE›
BRITAIN'S RUSSOPHOBIC HAWKS SHOULD BE CAST BACK TO SWINGING 60S IF WE WANT NEW EAST-WEST DETENTE
It's worth pointing out that at this time it wasn't just left-wingers like Wilson who supported improved relations with the Soviet Union... READ MORE›
RUSSIA'S VLADIMIR PUTIN TAKES DIVE IN SUBMERSIBLE IN CRIMEA
On March 16, 2014, Crimea held a referendum on whether to continue as part of Ukraine or to cast its lot with the Russian Federation... READ MORE›