The rise of rock and rap in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union
Inevitably one furrows a brow (or two) at a jumped-up subtitle promising an “incredible true story,” but David Junk delivers ...
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Putin says he pulled Russia back from the edge of the abyss
Putin, a former KGB spy who took the Kremlin's top job just eight years after the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, is the longest-serving Kremlin leader since Josef Stalin who died at his dacha ...
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Discover the Story Behind a Legendary Exposé of the Brutality of the Soviet Union
Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences as a ...
When The United States Broke Into 2 Countries, Had 2 Presidents, 2 Flags
In 1861, when Republican leader Abraham Lincoln was on his way to becoming President of the United States of America, the ...
Kremlin, on US-Armenia ties, says Washington plays destabilising role in Caucasus
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Russia values its close relations with Armenia and that the United States, which is set to ...
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Putin made decision to grant Assad asylum in Russia, Kremlin says
Assad's fall is a big blow to Iran and Russia ... Assad's father, Hafez al-Assad, sided with the Soviet Union to try to achieve parity with U.S.-backed Israel. The Kremlin said Syria was subject to ...
Azerbaijani anger over plane crash grows, in deepening schism with Russia
In the crash’s aftermath, Azerbaijan has unleashed rare and stinging criticism of Russia, with the country’s president saying ...