The Ukraine-U.S. mineral deal relies on 50-year-old Soviet-era maps and infrastructure that no longer exists, report says
The U.S. and Ukraine are close to signing a deal that could give the U.S. substantial control over the smaller country’s ...
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A music producer found an old record. It opened up a world of Soviet-era disco
The discovery of one old record is breathing new life into a genre of Soviet-era music that hasn't been widely heard overseas for decades.
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Suzanne Massie, ‘Reagan’s Window on the Soviet Union,’ Dies at 94
“He has not been to the Soviet Union,” she said ... Image Be “Land of the Firebird: The Beauty of Old Russia,” Ms. Massie’s a history of art and culture in the pre-Bolshevik era.
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Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
Somewhere along the way, the contest had picked up some sort of symbolic value, an understanding that the result would reflect the future of the Soviet Union as a whole. If Karpov won, it would be a ...