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‘No safety guarantee’: Could Ukrainian drones target Putin’s Victory Day?

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine cannot guarantee the safety of world leaders flying to Moscow.

Al Jazeera

Putin Gears Up For 'Grandest' Victory Day Amid Ukraine Conflict

Russian President Vladimir Putin will address the "grandest" ever annual Victory Day parade in Moscow on Friday, evoking the Soviet Union's defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II to rally support for his troops fighting in Ukraine.

International Business Times

AP PHOTOS: On Victory Day, veterans recall the Soviet Union's sacrifice in World War II

When she heard the news of Nazi Germany surrendering 80 years ago, Valentina Efremova couldn’t believe the devastating war was over.

The Independent UK

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Exposing ‘the illegals’: how KGB’s fake westerners infiltrated the Prague Spring

Kremlin’s most prized spies were sent in to Czechoslovakia to whip up the 1960s reform protests in a move then replicated across the eastern bloc

The Guardian - UK

Universities in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union thought giving in to government demands would save their independence

Many American universities, widely seen globally as beacons of academic integrity and free speech, are giving in to demands from the Trump administration, which has been targeting academia since it took office.

The Conversation

Why Nato is struggling to rebuild itself in an increasingly threatening world

In the years after Nato was formed in 1949, its US and European members had a collective approach to defence with clear goals in common, largely built around the protection of western Europe against the Soviet Union. Throughout this era, the US and Europe both relied on the stability of…

The Conversation

The new book from Scotland which delves into how Russia operates

From a Western perspective, it’s often hard to understand why the Russian people would support a man like President Vladimir Putin and fail to…

The National (Scotland)

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Ukraine will need major rebuilding when war ends − here’s why the US isn’t likely to invest in its recovery with a new Marshall Plan

President Donald Trump wants Ukraine to repay the United States for helping to defend the country against Russia’s invasion.

The Conversation

Putin wants US ‘recognition’ of Russian gains in Ukraine: Historian

Russian-British historian Sergey Radchenko talks to Al Jazeera about Moscow’s desire for status on the world stage.

Al Jazeera

Oleg Gordievsky obituary

Russian spy who was the highest ranking KGB officer to defect to Britain

The Guardian - UK

In South Africa, Russia’s ‘anti-colonial’ narrative sways public opinion

Sympathy towards wartime Russia has deep historical roots, back to the Cold War era and earlier.

Al Jazeera

Will the U.S. collapse like the Soviet Union did?

“You’re next,” said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union’s collapse in late 1991. I was an American student in St. Petersburg, and he was referring to the United States.

The Conversation

Trump Compared to Soviet Secret Police By Former Anti-Communist Political Prisoners: 'Shocked Zelenskyy Treated in the Same Way'

Former prisoners of the Soviet Union's communist regime have written a letter addressing Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy clash in the Oval Office.

Latin Times

OPINION - Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin's Russia-Ukraine deal risks making a bad war even worse

Pretty much everyone wants the war in Ukraine to end. A conflict unleashed on its neighbour by Russia which has led to an estimated death toll of over 100,000 on the Ukrainian side and beyond 150,000 on the Russian one is a tragedy of the age and a symptom of…

Evening Standard

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Ukraine peace talks: Trump is bringing Russia back in from the cold and ticking off items on Putin’s wish list

The meeting in Saudi Arabia between senior delegations from the United States and Russia could be the first step towards an end to the war in Ukraine – and not just an end to the war. In almost five hours of talks, US and Russian representatives reportedly agreed to work…

The Independent UK

Baltic nations count final hours to ending electricity ties to Russia

Nearly 3 1/2 decades after leaving the Soviet Union, the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania this weekend will flip a switch to end electricity-grid connections to neighboring Russia and Belarus

The Independent UK

Catholic priest in Belarus sentenced to 11 years as crackdown on dissent continues

A Catholic priest in Belarus has been convicted on charges of high treason for criticizing the government and handed an 11-year sentence, in the first case of politically-driven charges against Catholic clergy since Belarus became independent in the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union

Fortune

Russia is speeding into a demographic crisis with a 25-year-low birth rate as the Ukraine war rages on

Russia has had similar troughs in its demographics during World War II and after the fall of the Soviet Union—but things are different this time.

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I wrote a book on the execution of the Rosenbergs for Cold War spying – and a recently declassified document has convinced me that Ethel was innocent

The sons of an American woman executed for spying on the United States during the Cold War want President Joe Biden to clear her name before he leaves office.

International Business Times

Ukraine Says Cannot Meet Landmine Destruction Pledge Due To Russia Invasion

Ukraine will not fulfil a commitment to destroy a stockpile of around 6 million landmines left over from the Soviet Union because of Russia's invasion, a defence official said on Tuesday.

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European Championship-winning captains

From the inaugural tournament in 1960 to the present day, a look at the captains who led their nations to European Championship glory...

International Business Times

Russia Shuts Moscow's Famed Gulag Museum

Russian authorities ordered the closure from Thursday of Moscow's award-winning Gulag History Museum, dedicated to the victims of Soviet-era repression.

The Guardian - UK

Even among artists in exile, the myth of Russian cultural supremacy lives on

Many liberal Russians shelter in states once part of the Soviet Union. It’s time that they learned to respect the cultures and languages their nation has so long suppressed

The Independent UK

Hungary’s Viktor Orban makes wild claim EU plotted to oust Polish government

The prime minister has also compared the European Union to the Soviet Union

The Conversation

Fall of Khrushchev: 60 years since the ‘most democratic coup’ in Soviet history, how Comrade Nikita was toppled

The overthrow of Nikita Khrushchev from the posts of first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and the leader of the Soviet state in October 1964 was an unprecedented event in the history of the Soviet Union.

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