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IT SHOOK THE WORLD THEN IT FAILED
For some, the Soviet Union was always beyond criticism - the cause transcended the crimes... READ MORE›
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ARCTIC STRONGHOLD OF WORLD'S SEEDS FLOODED AFTER PERMAFROST MELTS
The vault is on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen and contains almost a million packets of seeds, each a variety of an important food crop... READ MORE›
SAINSBURYS CHRISTMAS AD IS A DANGEROUS AND DISRESPECTFUL MASTERPIECE
Perhaps the greatest truism, even cliche about the first world war is that nobody ever really understood why it happened, what it was all about... 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›
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›
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›
WORLD LEADERS ACCUSED OF SHAMEFUL FAILURE OVER REFUGEE CRISIS
Almost 4 million people displaced from Syria have registered with the UN high commissioner for refugees... 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›
EXPLORE PYRAMIDEN: THE FORGOTTEN CITY AT THE END OF THE WORLD
In the 1930s, Russia's state-run Trust Arktikugol invested in Svalbard's coal mining operations, and after the Second World War, Pyramiden began to thrive... 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›
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›
GRAPH OF WORLD WARS BY NUMBER DEAD AND DURATION OF CONFLICT SHOWS HOW WAR IS VERY MUCH NOT BEHIND US
It might be 100 years since the Great War, but the world remains a very turbulent place... 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›
ABANDONED WORLD WAR II STRUCTURES, IN PICTURES
Photographer Marc Wilson's series of abandoned World War II military buildings and their surrounding landscapes... 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›
THE FIRST WORLD WAR IS STILL WITH US. THATS WHY WE REMEMBER
What is so striking about the first world war is that it has long stirred a symmetrical hostility in the collective folklore of the right... 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›