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Soviet Union

Revisited

Soviet famine still haunts Moldova, 80 years on

Europe

Who is Vladimir Medinsky, the nationalist historian leading Russia’s peace talks delegation?

Profile
Europe

Vietnam wins Russia's 'Intervision' song contest, US contestant drops out

Europe

Soft power: Russia revives the Intervision song contest, Cold War rival to Eurovision

Analysis
Europe
Revisited

Narva Revisited: When history is a battlefield

'Low key atmosphere' as Ukraine celebrates independence day

Europe

Ukraine marks its independence day as peace push shows little sign of progress

34 years ago, the making of an independent Ukraine

Europe

Ukraine celebrates its 34th Independence Day amid the ongoing war with Russia

Ukraine celebrates its 34th Independence Day from Soviet Union

Ukraine celebrates its 34th Independence Day from Soviet Union, after National Flag Day

Plane crashes in Russia's Far East with 49 people on board

Poland fights digital interference ahead of final round of presidential vote

Analysis
Europe

Soviet-era spacecraft crashes back to Earth after 53 years stuck in orbit

Europe

Armenia, Azerbaijan announce agreement to sign peace deal

Europe
Truth or Fake

Was Donald Trump recruited by the KGB under codename ‘Krasnov’?

Former USSR chess grandmaster Boris Spassky dies at 88

Europe

How Germany’s enduring East-West divide is pushing voters to the fringes

Analysis
Europe

Baltic states join European power grid after cutting ties with Russia's network

Europe

Pro-EU protests continue in Georgia after police raid opposition offices

Pro-EU protesters defy Georgia crackdown after police raid opposition offices

Europe

Georgian police accused of torturing pro-EU protesters

Europe

In Georgian breakaway Abkhazia, protesters refuse to leave parliament

Protesters storm parliament in breakaway Georgian region Abkhazia over deal with Russia

Europe
Focus

What remains of the dried-out Aral Sea, a man-made ecological disaster?

Asia / Pacific

Lithuanian artists affirm identity, Western links with major cultural festival in France

Derussification
Europe

In Ukraine's Donbas, ten years of war and Russification

Partitioning Ukraine
Europe

The Kremlin puts Baltic leaders on ‘wanted’ list for challenging its worldview

'Insult to history'?
Europe

Death of Henry Kissinger: From WWII refugee to the nexus of US political power

OBITUARY
Americas

Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger dies at 100

Americas

Charles de Gaulle's pro-Kremlin grandson says he wants Russian citizenship

France

Macron arrives in Uzbekistan after Kazakhstan visit to 'strengthen' ties

France

Birobidzhan: Israel-Hamas war sows discord in remote Jewish region of Russia

Jews of Russia’s Far East
Europe

Soviet spies in Africa: How the KGB expanded Russian influence during the Cold War

Global history
Africa

From Khrushchev’s KGB to Putin: the deep roots of Russian influence in Africa

Spy games
Africa

Jacques Rupnik pays homage to 'great legacy' of celebrated novelist, thinker & friend Milan Kundera

‘Gateway to Hell’: Turkmenistan urged to plug gas leaks driving climate change

GLOBAL WARMING
Asia / Pacific

China Ambassador's comments: Beijing affirms ex-Soviet nations' sovereignty after uproar

China
Asia / Pacific
Perspective

The legacy of the Soviet Gulag with 'Varlam' author Michael Prazan

Europe
Perspective

'Free': Chronicle of a childhood in Albania during the fall of communism

Europe
Perspective

‘Who Lost Russia?’ Tracing the breakdown in relations between Moscow and the West

Europe

Ramaphosa visits White House: For South Africa, 'America's attention has been elsewhere'

Russia bids farewell to Gorbachev in low-key funeral snubbed by Putin

Europe
The World This Week

Farewell Gorbachev, Ukraine's nuclear plant, UN Xinjiang report, Pakistan floods

The Debate

The last Soviet: What legacy for Mikhail Gorbachev?

Europe

Why Gorbachev was so popular in the West – but scorned in Russia

THE LAST SOVIET
Europe

The Gorbachev era and the collapse of the Soviet Union

Russians divided over Gorbachev legacy

In Germany, Gorbachev's death mourned as passing of rare leader

Germany's Scholz commemorates 'courageous reformer' Gorbachev

Gorbachev's love-hate relationship with Putin

Biden calls Gorbachev 'rare leader' who made world safer

World leaders react to the death of last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev dies at 91: World hails 'one-of-a-kind' former Soviet leader

Gorbachev opened path for ‘a free Europe’: World leaders pay tribute to ex-Soviet leader

The last Soviet
Europe

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev dies aged 91

Obituary
RUSSIA

‘They would have preferred hell’: The Battle of Stalingrad, 80 years on

WORLD WAR II
Europe

Ex-Belarus leader Stanislav Shushkevich, who helped dissolve USSR, dies at 87

Europe

Did NATO ‘betray’ Russia by expanding to the East?

Ukraine crisis
RUSSIA
Revisited

The fall of the Soviet Union, 30 years on

Europe

The fall of the Soviet Union, 30 years on

The fall of the Soviet Union, 30 years on

Focus

Russia/USA space race: A 'cold war' that's heating up

The Debate

What's left of the USSR? Remembering the break-up of the Soviet Union

Europe
Focus

Post-Soviet Estonia: From collective farms to digital powerhouse

Focus

Ukraine's 'decommunisation' and the fall of Soviet symbols

Europe
Focus

Georgia's Post-Soviet Orthodox Church: a cultural and identity heavyweight

Focus

The good old days? Positive feelings about Stalin abound in Russia

Revisited

In Russia, the battle for the memory of Soviet repressions

Europe