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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›
HUMANITARIAN CRISIS EVOKES EUROPES DARKEST HOUR
In Europe, we benefited from humanitarian assistance and the acceptance of refugees after the disaster that was World War II, Mr. Roth said... READ MORE›
HITLERS WORLD MAY NOT BE SO FAR AWAY
As Hitler himself knew, there was a political alternative to ecological panic and state destruction the pursuit of agricultural technology at home rather than Lebensraum abroad... READ MORE›
LAWYER WHO MET WITH TRUMP JR. HAD RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE CONNECTIONS
Natalia Veselnitskaya had represented a unit linked to the Russian spy agency in a property dispute... 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›
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›
EUROPE'S CURRENT ANTI-MIGRANT RHETORIC CARRIES ECHOES OF 1930S ANTI-SEMITISM
Even during World War II, let alone before it started, antisemitism was rife in American political and public life... 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›
NATO RETURNS ITS ATTENTION TO AN OLD ADVERSARY RUSSIA
I don't think we're in the Cold War again... 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›
'ONLY SKELETONS, NOT PEOPLE': DIARIES SHED NEW LIGHT ON SIEGE OF LENINGRAD
When the diarists talk about Robinson Crusoe, it's ironic because they're not thinking of him the way Soviet ideology has asked them to think, Peri said... READ MORE›
70 YEARS LATER HOW WORLD WAR II CHANGED AMERICA
Even as World War II was ending 70 years ago, Americans already knew it had transformed their country... 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›
'WE CAN DO IT!' HUNDREDS DRESS UP AS WWII ICON ROSIE THE RIVETER
They'd just tentatively broken the Guinness World Record for most Rosies in one place since WWII... 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›
INSIDE SKRUNDA-1: LATVIA'S SECRET SOVIET CITY TURNED GHOST TOWN
Cold war heyday In its prime, when it housed more than 5,000 people, Skrunda-1 played a crucial part in the Soviet Union's defence strategy... READ MORE›
WWII TANK WAS STASHED IN 78-YEAR-OLD'S CELLAR
Prosecutors meanwhile are investigating whether possession of the tank torpedo anti-aircraft gun and other weapons violates Germany's War Weapons Control Act... READ MORE›
PUTIN USES THE SOVIET DEFEAT OF HITLER TO SHOW WHY RUSSIA NEEDS HIM TODAY
The Soviet Union lost more than 20 million people in World War II and bore the brunt of the fighting in Europe between 1941 and 1944... READ MORE›
NATO CONSIDERS SENDING 4,000 TROOPS TO RUSSIAN BORDERS
And it would be designed to communicate to the Russians that Nato is serious it will defend Nato territory... READ MORE›
RUSSIAN VIOLATIONS OF AIRSPACE SEEN AS UNWELCOME TEST BY THE WEST
NATO said that a Russian aircraft also violated Turkish airspace on Sunday... 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›
V-J DAY: RARE COLOUR ARCHIVE FOOTAGE SHOWS PEOPLE CELEBRATING END OF WORLD WAR II
Video V-J Day rare colour archive footage shows people celebrating end of World War II... READ MORE›
ONE OF RUSSIA'S BIGGEST HOLIDAYS IS A WWII ANNIVERSARY AMERICANS DON'T THINK ABOUT
Ask any Russian about their family's World War II experiences and the answer, almost invariably, is one of suffering and battlefield service... READ MORE›
RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR SAYS POLAND WAS PARTLY TO BLAME FOR WORLD WAR II
Ambassador Sergey Andreev of Russia on Friday described the Soviet Union's 1939 invasion of Poland as an act of self-defense not aggression... 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›
'IRISH' TOURIST TAKES ON ANGRY MOB OF TURKISH SHOPKEEPERS
An action-packed video of a man described as an 'Irish tourist' street-fighting a mob of angry shopkeepers has surfaced in Turkey... READ MORE›