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In a push evocative of the Soviet Union's efforts to bring Africa into its sphere of influence, the Kremlin has stepped up its presence across the African continent in recent years. From military campaigns to involvement in domestic politics, few African nations have been spared Moscow's interest. Russia claims it's…

President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday said a "real war" was again being waged against Russia as he invoked the Soviet Union's victory in World War Two to say the West was trying to destroy his country.

Decades after the catastrophe, now a byword for state secrecy, crucial elements remain a mystery, Andy Gregory writes

Decades after the catastrophe, now a byword for state secrecy, crucial elements remain a mystery, Andy Gregory writes

The Chinese government says it respects the sovereignty of former Soviet Union republics after Beijing’s ambassador to France caused an uproar in Europe by saying they aren’t sovereign nations

The case of Wall Street Journal correspondent Evan Gershkovich, who on April 18, 2023, saw his appeal against investigative detention on spying charges turned down by a Russian court, has echoes of an earlier era. Not since the Cold War, the Kremlin noted, has an American journalist been charged with…

While the world is watching the destruction in Ukraine, in another corner of the former Soviet Union hostilities smolder.

Napalm Death bassist Shane Embury shares stories about fighting racists in Estonia, facing poverty in the Soviet Union and the time Ronnie James Dio made him cry

How far the Republican Party has fallen, said David French in The New York Times. Forty years ago this month, Ronald Reagan stood up for Western values in the face of “an expansionist, aggressive Soviet Union” by giving what became known as his “evil empire speech”. 

Ninety years ago, a young Welsh investigative journalist uncovered the Soviet Union’s genocide in Ukraine, Stalin’s attempt to stamp down on rising nationalism. The Holomodor, as it became known, was responsible for the deaths of some 4 million Ukrainians through deliberate starvation.

He sold the invasion as a collective decision with his military chiefs, but it is the president alone who will have to answer to history, writes Mary Dejevsky