BOOK REVIEW: 'Seconhand Time: The Last of the Soviets'
SECONDHAND TIME: THE LAST OF THE SOVIETSBy Svetlana AlexievichTranslated by Bela ShayevichRandom House, $30, 470 pages"Freedom had materialized out of thin air," writes Nobel Laureate Svetlana...
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View ArticleThat time a priest was reprimanded by a saint
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View ArticleRussia needs Gorbachev's wisdom
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View ArticleThe day the Soviet Union died
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View ArticleConfusing Vladimir Putin with the old Soviet threat
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View ArticleVladimir Putin wages information war against U.S., allies
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View ArticleLamborghinis and icons: New and old mix for Moscow visitor
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View ArticleLatvia grants citizenship to dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov
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View ArticleRussians respected Dwight Eisenhower
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View ArticleEuropeans should fund own defense, not rely on NATO
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View ArticleCROSSTALK: Trump Putin Reagan Gorbachev
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View ArticleHungary's proud water polo tradition goes on at home worlds
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View ArticleVladimir Putin's Russia can be explained by 'Long Telegram'
Russian experts, politicians and television's talking heads are constantly wondering whether Vladimir Putin's Russia is trying to reconstruct the old Soviet Union with its extended empire and...
View ArticleThe launch of Sputnik 60 years ago opened space era
MOSCOW (AP) - The launch of Sputnik 60 years ago opened the space era and became a major triumph for the Soviet Union, showcasing its military might and technological prowess. It also stunned the rest...
View ArticleEconomic freedom requires changes in the U.S.
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View ArticleRussia never contained by the U.S.
Seventy years ago, George Kennan's "Sources of Soviet Conduct" set the course for U.S. containment policy toward the Soviet Union. Following the Soviet Union's collapse and a decade of economic turmoil...
View ArticleDetails of South Dakota nuclear-missile accident released
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) - Bob Hicks was spending a cold December night in his barracks 53 years ago at Ellsworth Air Force Base near Rapid City when the phone rang.It was the chief of his missile...
View Article100 years on, Tate Modern explores Russian revolutionary art
LONDON (AP) - The Soviet Union is gone, but the imagery it inspired lives on.The visual vocabulary of red stars, scarlet banners, Cyrillic exclamations and cut-and-paste imagery is still very much with...
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