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Two ways ahead for Europe and the former USSR | By...
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
Today we publish the second and final part of the interview with Sergei Yurievich Glaziev (You can read the first part of...
Sergei Glaziev on the Soviet collapse. An interview with Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
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By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
Thirty years after the dissolution of the USSR, Sergey Yurievich Glaziev speaks about the failure of Perestroika, the results...
Russia warns US of possible military response
Moscow hasn’t ruled out action if America threatens security balance in Europe
Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov warned his American counterparts on Monday that...
How new Russian-built passenger jet MC-21 took off despite Western sanctions
The first Russian-made plane of its kind, MC-21 has proven its airworthiness after years of delays due to Western sanctions
Dec 30, 2021
The Russian-made medium-haul...
How Russia Made 100 Million People Literate
What changes were made to improve the astonishingly low literacy rates in the USSR?
By Ethan Friend
Dec 13, 2019
It was vitally important that the Communists...
CSTO invokes Article 4, sends troops to Kazakhstan
The world news is uniformly vague about what constitutes the opposition and who the insurgents are. Much is made of the word nationalist but...
Cohen: “Τhe breakup of the Soviet Union undermined the march toward...
A moment with...Stephen F. Cohen
By Mark F. Bernstein ’83
April 23, 2008
To gauge how much international politics have changed over the last 40 years, consider...
Russia withdraws troops from regions near Ukraine
Over 10,000 Russian soldiers are now heading back to their home bases following month-long drills held in various regions, including those bordering Ukraine.
Dec 25,...
The Soviet Century
The senior historian of the Soviet Union presents a powerful and original analysis of the warring between Lenin and Stalin and the collapse of...
The Ukraine: The USA is responsible for the escalation and must...
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
Back in 1992, when I was a correspondent in Moscow, the French review Sous le Drapeau du Socialisme asked me for an...