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This month marks 100 years since Ukraine joined the Soviet Union. It did so after Ukraine lost in a bid for independence. Ukraine once again finds itself in another life-and-death battle with Moscow.

George Orwell’s book about a totalitarian ruler who clamps down on citizens’ freedoms and keeps them under constant surveillance is a big hit in Russia.

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, China’s reaction in response to the Russian aggression has been fiercely debated in the western media. The majority of the discussions have focused on one particular term: “no-limits friendship” – a phrase believed to have been taken from a Sino-Russian joint statement issued a…

The former Soviet leader’s longtime translator remembers an optimist who wanted to achieve his goals by persuasion, not force, and understood that he was a man of history

Ranging across the vast Eurasian landmass, director Uldis Brauns and his crew captured extraordinary vignettes of everyday life, both big and small

Desperate to win the Space Race against the USSR, the US quietly recruited prominent engineers from Nazi Germany

Plus: last beating first in the group stage, thrashings in vain and the glory of the one-armed goalscorer

The death of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, under whose leadership the communist bloc was brought to an end, was met in the west with tributes and personal reminiscences by leaders who had met him and enjoyed his company. This reverence wasn’t matched in Russia or…

What China’s leader wants—and how to stop him from getting it.

AL RAYYAN, Qatar — The last time Canada went to the World Cup, Diego Maradona was still playing, the Soviet Union made it to the round of 16 and synthetic balls replaced leather ones for the first time.

Soviet-era nostalgia and anti-Western sentiment fuel online support for Russia’s Vladimir Putin and his war on Ukraine.