| 单词 | USSR |
| 例句 | Many of Lenin’s modern ideals stayed in place as Josef Stalin first took over leadership of the USSR. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z In fact, the Soviet military tracked Powers from the moment he had crossed the USSR's border. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z After eleven rounds, nearing the tournament’s midpoint, Fischer was in second place, one-half point behind the leader, Efim Geller of the USSR. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The KGB, which guarded the USSR's borders and kept watch over foreigners and Soviet citizens alike, was on high alert. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In the reality of the USSR, millions of people were tortured and starved to death in the first years of the Communist Party state. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Lenin made a lasting impression on the people of the USSR. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The reasons for this pressure are complicated, but they begin with the leader of the USSR, Josef Stalin. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z And so, beginning in 1932, military training was built into the secondary education curriculum in the USSR. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The entire city fell under the command of the Seventh Directorate of the KGB, the USSR's powerful and fearsome spy agency, which kept watch over foreigners and Soviet citizens alike. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In World War ll, in the USSR, nearly twenty air armies were stationed throughout the country. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Beyond the borders of the USSR, western Europe had now been at war for three years. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z One of the major goals of the second Five-Year Plan was to multiply the number of civil air routes across the USSR, covering extreme distances and connecting the far-flung corners of the huge country. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The 588th was sent to help prevent the Germans from taking over the Caucasus region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, an important source of oil for the USSR. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The Germans had now been pushed back over the entire western border of the USSR. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Marina was perfectly placed to become a hero in the eyes of the people of the USSR, especially its youth. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Newspapers took an increasingly dark view of the USSR's motives. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z As the Red Army mobilized its soldiers to fight for the USSR, civilians had to do all the defensive work they could. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Finnish music blared from the radio, a sign that they had passed the border, out of the USSR. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In the summer of 1949, the only American agents capable of uncovering the USSR's true motives were hunkered down in a closely guarded office in Arlington Hall. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But with the real possibility of nuclear conflict with the USSR—and the failure of the CIA to send its own agents behind the Iron Curtain—the time had come to make it happen. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z What was left of the old Russian Empire would become known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics—the USSR, or Soviet Union. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Their mechanics took a record player with them as they moved from base to base; one of them, Sonya Tishurova, organized a group who performed national dances from different states in the USSR. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z In the USSR, gender equality in law didn’t always mean gender equality in everyday life. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z All over the USSR, young women were taking to the skies and trying to join the Red Army so they could be like their modest and hardworking hero, Marina Raskova. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z But in the USSR, by 1935 there were about 150 flying clubs that provided aviation tuition to any teenage girl or boy who was a Komsomol member. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z All over the USSR, women who could fly were now assigned to train new pilots—many of them young men who’d be flying off to combat missions. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z And he likely had access to the intelligence the United States desired most: information about the USSR's nuclear missile program. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Here’s what’s so hard for us to understand today: The ruthless, paranoid Josef Stalin, by then the uncontested leader of the USSR, commanded a bizarre and absolute power over his people. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z In addition to the collectivization of farms, the Five-Year Plans also aimed to industrialize the USSR. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, in the USSR—which, thanks to the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, wasn't under attack—young women across the nation were continuing their state-sponsored flight training and flight instruction as though nothing had changed. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z In the early years of the USSR, a woman was expected to have a job and also be a mother. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z When flowers were in bloom, the women of Raskova’s regiments—along with the other women soldiers of the USSR—filled their living spaces with fragrant blossoms. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Marina Raskova led the way for the three women’s flight regiments of the USSR. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The German forces hadn’t been halted in their furious bid for military supremacy over the USSR, but the front was no longer advancing. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Moreover, despite the rising global tensions with the USSR, the United States was enjoying one of the most prosperous decades in its history. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “What makes you think you should reveal the USA’s secrets for the USSR’s sake?” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Bobby knew of him, of course, having played over his games from the Amsterdam tournament of 1956 and also from seeing him from afar at the USA–USSR match in New York four years earlier. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Marina’s leadership would be an example to the people of the USSR. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The information she handed over to the FBI included dozens of names of other Americans spying for the USSR, including people that the agency had been tracking for years. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z For the CIA, unexpected news from Moscow cut short celebrations over the end of the standoff with the USSR. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “They’re going to the front. There is war between Germany and the USSR. Germany has moved into Lithuania,” she shouted. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z This was only the latest of many U-2 flights over the USSR. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z America's nuclear gambit had kept Stalin in check, but the crisis in Berlin underscored the need to anticipate the USSR's next move. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Met at the Moscow airport by Lev Abramov, the head of the chess section of the USSR, and by a guide from Intourist, Joan and Bobby were ushered to Moscow’s finest hotel, the National. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z If America wanted to understand the USSR's latest ploy in the arms race, they needed someone on the ground, in the Soviet Union itself. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The new wave of reformers saw the KGB as not just a symptom of the USSR's problem but the root of the problem itself. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “He says we are charged under Article 58 of the Soviet Penal Code for counterrevolutionary activities against the USSR,” said Mother. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Valentina herself was a deputy in the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the highest branch of the government’s legislature. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Stalin called Churchill's speech "an appeal to war with the USSR." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z All over the USSR, citizens raced to defend their Motherland. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Two days later, Khrushchev appeared before the annual meeting of the Supreme Soviet, the USSR's governing body. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z A twenty-year veteran of the Soviet spy service, Yurchenko had traveled the world on behalf of the USSR, including a stint at the Soviet embassy in Washington, DC. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z For the highly secretive Soviet government, a leadership merry-go-round like this was unprecedented: In the entire history of the USSR, only four men had occupied the leadership post. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z No KGB official had ever taken a public stand against the organization inside the USSR. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z As an atheistic socialist state, Slovenia, with the rest of the Balkan nations, followed the USSR's lead in discouraging the celebration of Christmas on Dec. 25. There's no comfort & joy in Melania Trump's bleak and impersonal Christmas decor 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z In this case, however, the government is that of the USSR, thrown into disarray by the death of Stalin. Toronto film festival 2017: a surge of woman power 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z Raised as part of the elite that got rich in the wake of the collapse of the USSR, she was, until recently, best known as a socialite and Big Brother host. TV highlights 14/12/2012 2012-12-13T20:00:01Z Contrary to popular belief, it wasn't absolutely impossible to listen to the Beatles in the USSR. Beatles for sale: The vinyl underground in the USSR 2012-10-05T07:06:49Z The hotel, on the Moscow River, still showcases 1,200 original artworks from Soviet-era artists along with restored ceiling frescoes and the lobby cityscape mural “Moscow: Capital of the USSR.” | Check In, Check Out: A Room With a View (of Art) for the Night 2010-10-07T02:12:00Z The group's purpose was to fire off press releases and interviews highlighting conditions in the USSR, the fraudulent nature of the conference, and to prepare awkward questions for the sessions. Ian McEwan on Sweet Tooth – Guardian book club 2013-07-13T09:29:00Z "In fact it was withdrawn and barely seen even in the USSR," says Baumgarten. Cold War celluloid 2011-05-06T16:54:34Z The USSR, by contrast, wanted complete control of its citizens’ lives: how people worked, dressed, or even danced. Life in the 'hairy underground': the lost history of Soviet hippies 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z There was what Toomistu calls “analogue Facebook” – notebooks listing names and numbers of contacts across the USSR, used by travellers seeking somewhere to crash for the night. Life in the 'hairy underground': the lost history of Soviet hippies 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z In a region this old, I’m sure each breath carries a dose of unintended history: Inhale, Alexander the Great; exhale, the Ottoman Empire; inhale, the USSR; exhale, the Taliban. Memorial Day’s lessons in amnesia 2012-05-24T15:04:00Z The Russian connection, Kopatchinskaja explains, relates to her childhood in Moldova, the tiny country nestled between Ukraine and Romania that was then still part of the USSR. Her Seattle Symphony debut drew blood. Now, this fierce violinist brings her fearless artistry back to town. 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z American colleges worried that they weren't turning out engineers in the USSR's amazing numbers. Red star rising 2010-08-06T23:04:00Z "I tell my children of my childhood during Soviet times ... how good my life was, how happy I was in the USSR. They form their own opinions but they share my views for now." In Stalin's native Georgia, Soviet dictator still revered by some 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z It is only the third British production ever, and the first since the collapse of the USSR, even though The Days of the Turbins was the most popular Russian stage play of the 1930s. Hung up 2010-03-20T00:05:00Z International film remakes have run the gamut from O to Z, in Japan, Turkey, USSR, Brazil, Mexico and Lithuania. Oz Revisited: Why We Still Follow the Yellow Brick Road 2013-09-16T21:44:52Z This was 1991 in what was still the USSR, and I was 14 and stripped to my boxers and had still never been kissed. Haunted by the perfect kiss: It should have been her, and then it was 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Woodhead is one of the world's most decorated documentary film-makers and is now publishing a book on how the Beatles rocked the USSR. Hyde Park, 1969: the counterculture's greatest day. And the Rolling Stones came too 2013-04-06T23:06:16Z In August 1982, "close to, or inside, the territorial waters of the USSR", probably near the Soviet naval base of Murmansk, the submarine stole a giant eastern bloc undersea listening device. Secrets of the Conqueror by Stuart Prebble – review 2012-10-12T07:00:02Z Instead, Whitty pivots to asking about what he calls “a somewhat harrowing tale she’s recounting before,” the actress’s upbringing in the USSR. Don’t blame Mila Kunis for that “awkward interview” 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Previously, as the USSR, a further nine nominations with three wins. Oscars 2015: The foreign language contenders 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z The exhibition, entitled See USSR, runs until 31 August at the Gallery for Russian Art and Design in London. In pictures: Selling the USSR as a travel destination 2013-08-14T07:30:09Z Voznesensky received the Soviet state prize in 1978, and since he was able to act as an unofficial voice for the USSR, he was allowed to travel all over the world. Andrei Voznesensky obituary 2010-06-03T18:01:00Z What is certain is that by settling in the USSR, Pontecorvo missed out on at least one Nobel prize. Frank Close: What I'm thinking about ... Higgs Boson and nuclear spies 2012-08-18T09:36:59Z Mr. Satter’s expulsion in December marks the first time the Kremlin has expelled an American journalist since the 1991 collapse of the USSR. New documentary re-examines fall of USSR 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z I was at the breakfast table when Paul McCartney came down with his acoustic guitar playing Back in the USSR. The Beach Boys' Mike Love: 'There are a lot of fallacies about me' 2013-07-04T08:00:03Z This is my favorite holiday on par with the New Year Eve which is a huge one for anyone born in the former USSR. Migrant, Refugee, Gay: You’re All Welcome at This Table 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z As Paul Krugman has mischievously pointed out, the USSR's growth record in the 50s elicited exactly the same awed commentary as Chinese and Indian growth does today. Red star rising 2010-08-06T23:04:00Z The show’s title sequence contrasts the iconography of the U.S. and the USSR—the Jazzercise video next to footage of Cossack dancing is especially funny, by the way. Spy vs. Spy: A Q&A with The Americans Creator Joe Weisberg 2013-03-12T15:02:25Z By then, the Soviets had already sent Méndez, a Cuban man of African descent, into space as part of the USSR’s Intercosmos program. Breaking the color barrier: behind the long fight to diversify space 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z He describes himself as a patriot of the fatherland – by which he means the now-disappeared USSR. White Fever by Jacek Hugo-Bader - review 2011-07-15T21:55:04Z He was the soulful, romantic lover in the pre-revolutionary age, for the movie version of Pasternak’s 1958 novel whose forbidden status was still a hot-button topic in both the US and the USSR. Omar Sharif: an exquisite actor whose charisma baffled Hollywood 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Moscow’s policies began to shift as Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev reshaped foreign policy and relations with Israel were restored shortly before the 1991 collapse of the USSR. Why Russia is engaged in a delicate balancing act in the Israel-Hamas war 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z Nagorno-Karabakh was an autonomous region within Azerbaijan under the Soviet Union, but separatist sentiment grew in the USSR’s dying years and then flared into war. At least 20 dead in gas station explosion as Nagorno-Karabakh residents flee to Armenia 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z Until 1991, Kazakhstan and Russia used to both be part of the same country – the USSR. Kazakhstan Calm, Uncertain After Protests, Crackdown 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z “During the USSR, Moscow did not want to give nuclear or missile technologies as North Korea used to be inclined to risky actions and provocations.” Putin confirms meeting as North Korea’s Kim reportedly heads to Russian Far East 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z The countries that once were part of the Soviet Union took radically different paths after the USSR’s collapse. For nearly a quarter century, an AP correspondent watched the Putin era unfold in Russia 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z Japan would become the fifth country to achieve a moon landing after the United States, the former USSR, China and now India. Explainer: Japan's moon landing: When is it and why is it important? 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z A successful mission would make India only the fourth country to successfully land on the moon, after the former USSR, the United States and China. Moon landing anticipation builds for India after Russia's crash 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z The revanchist mentality of Vladimir Putin, who has said the USSR's demise was "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century," echoes that of the German militarists of 1919. Russia, Ukraine and Versailles: Bogus lessons from history won't solve this crisis 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z However, I think for most of us when it was erected we understood the gesture as a monument to the fall of communism and the dissolution of the USSR. Lenin statue: ‘Monument to the fall of communism’ 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Threads was made and shown in an era of heightened tension between the West and the then USSR. Threads: The BBC drama which affected a generation of viewers 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z They were part of a package of allied military support for the USSR, paid for by the United States under the so-called Lend-Lease scheme. Ukraine finds British WW2 Hurricane planes outside Kyiv 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z Russia’s President Vladimir Putin really does want to go back to the USSR. A pause in Putin’s plans | Horsey cartoon 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z The move is seen as marking the beginning of constitutional reform in Russia, which became independent in the USSR’s collapse in 1991. Putin uses public holiday to laud patriotic feelings as support for troops in Ukraine 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z This global split between communist and capitalist was only possible because of the vast might of the USSR. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Soviet propaganda stressed the USSR’s desire for world peace and praised the communist ideals of a classless society in which people were treated equally regardless of race or gender. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z This was the fate of the eight Hurricanes found buried in woodland south of Kyiv - now the capital of independent Ukraine, but until 1991 part of the USSR. Ukraine finds British WW2 Hurricane planes outside Kyiv 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z Russia seems to stir feelings of nostalgia for some in the governing African National Congress, for the then USSR's support for their fight against apartheid. South Africa tries to restore US relations amid Russia arms sales row 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z But unlike the USSR, China's primary challenge to the United States is economic, not military. Not your grandfather's military-industrial complex: Experts say new Pentagon stats are "stunning" 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z Thus, even at the highest levels of power in the USSR, no one was safe from Stalin’s paranoia. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Among the leaders of this movement were Indonesia, India, and Egypt, which still all found themselves accepting aid from the United States, the USSR, or both. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Soviet nuclear weapons stationed in Belarus, Ukraine and Kazakhstan were moved to Russia under a U.S.-brokered deal after the USSR’s collapse in 1991. Belarusians wary of being drawn into war with Ukraine 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Since the break-up of the USSR, the diminutive actress has never shied away from making her political views public, and has often been harshly critical of government policies. Ukraine war: Russian artists back Putin or face censorship 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z If he did, it would be Moscow's first since 1990, the year before the breakup of the USSR. Analysis: Nuclear risk seen rising as Putin unpicks last treaty with U.S. 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z In addition, Stalin left a legacy of death and imprisonment that touched nearly every family in the USSR, with millions still trapped in the gulags of Siberia. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Rebellions in Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia were quickly crushed by the USSR. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z The invasion effectively ended an existing détente between the U.S. and USSR. Jimmy Carter's lasting Cold War legacy: His human rights focus helped dismantle Soviet Union 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z But since the USSR's collapse in 1991, Moldova has forged a deeper partnership with Romania, an EU member. Moldova's pro-EU President Sandu accuses Russia of coup plot 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z It was set up by a group of well known Soviet dissidents and named after the Helsinki accords, a wide-ranging international agreement signed by the USSR, which defended human rights and fundamental freedoms. Moscow Helsinki Group: Russia's oldest human rights organisation told to close 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Soon, each of the Eastern European states was officially pledged to cooperate with the USSR. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z After the disintegration of the USSR, however, the need to secure these stockpiles became more pressing. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Agriculture was the USSR's greatest economic weakness since the 1960s. Jimmy Carter's lasting Cold War legacy: His human rights focus helped dismantle Soviet Union 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z They were also exclusively focused on Russian Jews, rather than other religious minorities in the USSR, who were in a similar position as Roman Catholics and evangelicals. New Israeli power broker seeks to rewrite history to justify violence against Palestinians 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z But his team-mates pressured the management to select him and he made his World Cup debut against the USSR. Pele: A sporting icon who never liked his nickname 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z Ironically, the one state that had already been taken over by a genuine communist revolution was the one that was not a puppet of the USSR. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The USSR, which later expanded to include Moldova, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, left the republics with their own governments and national languages, but all subordinate to Moscow. Fallen colossus: USSR’s terror, triumphs began 100 years ago 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z But by 1985, there was a meat shortage in the USSR. Jimmy Carter's lasting Cold War legacy: His human rights focus helped dismantle Soviet Union 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z Bout - a Russian national born in Soviet-ruled Tajikistan - began his career in air transport in the early 1990s, after the fall of the USSR. Viktor Bout: Who is the Merchant of Death? 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Russia in 2014 annexed Crimea, which was transferred from Soviet Russia to Soviet Ukraine in 1954 by then Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and recognised by Russia in 1994 after the collapse of the USSR. Putin drives across Crimea bridge in a Mercedes 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z Thus, Yugoslavia was a communist country, but not one controlled by the USSR. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The positive offshoot was the establishment of a U.S.-USSR hotline to facilitate crisis communications. Fallen colossus: USSR’s terror, triumphs began 100 years ago 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z Carter also announced in his speech a five-year spending initiative to modernize and strengthen the military because he recognized that post-Vietnam military cuts weakened the U.S. against the USSR. Jimmy Carter's lasting Cold War legacy: His human rights focus helped dismantle Soviet Union 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z Even after the fall of the USSR, arms sales remain a central element of Russia’s foreign policy. Sanctions, war demands leave battered Russian defense industry struggling to catch up 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z Marshall enlisted the big thinkers on the State Department planning staff, led by George Kennan, known as the author of the “containment” policy for deterring the USSR. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has made the Marshall Plan relevant again 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z In the context of the Cold War, many struggles over decolonization were tied closely to the attitudes and involvement of the US and USSR. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z On Dec. 25, Gorbachev resigned and the USSR’s flag was lowered from the Kremlin. Fallen colossus: USSR’s terror, triumphs began 100 years ago 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z Walls around the town bear graffitied reminders of the four-month occupation by Russian troops, with words like “Russia,” “USSR” and “Russian World” scrawled on surfaces that are riddled by bullets. Ukrainian authorities take stock of ruins in liberated Lyman 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z "CCCP" is daubed on a closed shop front - the Cyrillic letters for USSR, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Ukraine war: Liberated town shows human cost of Russia's defeat 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z Polyakov's death was announced by the Russian space agency, which used his honorary titles, including hero of the Soviet Union and pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR. Valery Polyakov: Record-breaking Russian cosmonaut dies aged 80 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z The USSR’s politburo, the apex of political power in which decisions of real consequence were made, was staffed by aging apparatchiks who had spent their entire lives working within this system. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Fighting regularly flares up between the two former Soviet states, whose border has been disputed since the collapse of the USSR. Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border: Almost 30 reported dead in clashes 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z The USSR’s Olga Korbut, dubbed “the sparrow from Minsk,” became an international celebrity after stunning performances on the balance beam, floor exercises and uneven bars. 50 years after Munich Olympics attack, victims’ families are compensated 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z The topic was reforming, indeed saving, the economies of Russia and the former Soviet states that formed the Commonwealth of Independent States in the aftermath of the USSR’s collapse. From Gorbachev to Putin: How economics failed Russia 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z “Gorbachev, the former president of the USSR, looked at me, looked at my tape recorder and said, ‘This we don’t need!’ and knocked my recorder out of my hand to the ground. Covering Gorbachev: AP remembers his wit, wisdom, warmth 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Despite the power of Britain, the US, and the USSR, the Axis war effort continued with amazing success well into 1942. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Latvian President Egils Levits said his country had become independent against Gorbachev's will - and the people of the Baltics had played a big role in the collapse of the USSR. Gorbachev: Little love for late Soviet leader in Russia's old empire 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z I first met Mikhail Gorbachev in May 1996, more than four years after the demise of the USSR. Mikhail Gorbachev: Remembering a warm-hearted and generous man 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z His efforts became the catalyst for a series of events that brought an end to communist rule, not just within the USSR, but also across its former satellite states. Obituary: Mikhail Gorbachev - Soviet leader who helped end Cold War 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z It was the third such bilateral agreement between the two countries since the 1991 collapse of the USSR. Russia temporarily pulls out of weapons inspection treaty 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z The Five-Year Plans were part of the USSR’s new “command economy,” one in which every conceivable commodity was produced based on quotas imposed within the vast party bureaucracy in Moscow. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Vadim Bakatin, a liberal politician who briefly headed the Soviet KGB in the months leading up to the collapse of the USSR, has died at the age of 84, Russian state media said on Monday. U.S. accuses Russia of using Ukraine power plant as 'nuclear shield' 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z Nearby, another fence bore an inexpertly painted “CCCP,” the Cyrillic acronym for “USSR.” After Rapes by Russian Soldiers, a Painful Quest for Justice 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z In a BBC interview she said she was optimistic about future relations with the USSR. Obituary: Mikhail Gorbachev - Soviet leader who helped end Cold War 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z In the years after the collapse of the USSR, the alliance recast Russia not as an adversary but as a “strategic partner.” EXPLAINER: NATO holds summit with gaze on Russia — and China 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z That approach to economic planning was disastrous in the long run, but in the short run it did succeed in industrializing the USSR. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs Stetsiuk started her farm with her late husband 30 years ago, as Ukraine was emerging from the ashes of the USSR. How can Ukraine's food be got out? 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Yet, Ukraine never was considered an authentic nation-state within the USSR. Putin’s real goal in Ukraine isn’t territory 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z “It describes the most sophisticated mass surveillance machinery ever deployed outside of China and the USSR. Not an exaggeration.” New EU rules would require chat apps to scan private messages for child abuse 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z They were trying to fight like a modern Western military with a Soviet-style force that even wasn't as strong as it was during the USSR. Has Russia been beaten? This military expert says that moment is coming soon 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z Khrushchev was eager to establish a military presence in the western hemisphere, especially since the US had already installed missile batteries in its allied nations of Italy and Turkey within striking distance of the USSR. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z But here in the Donbas, there is a large ethnic-Russian minority, a painful history of eight years of separatist conflict with Russian-backed militias and - particularly for an older generation - a powerful nostalgia for the USSR. Ukraine war: 'When the shelling stops, the traitors will be punished' 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z The parade, which recognises the defeat of Nazi Germany by the USSR, will be the 77th of its kind. Russia rehearses World War Two victory parade 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z In the 1970s, Philip Morris struck a licensing deal for its Marlboro brand to be manufactured in the USSR, according to Philip Morris’ website. Special Report: Sanctioned weapons mogul who supplied Russia’s troops has ties to Philip Morris 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Sport was a huge priority for the USSR, but newly formed post-Soviet countries such as Belarus could not afford the same investment. The Olympic champion who turned his back on Putin 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z “Both the bomb and its trigger were made in the former USSR.” Investigators: Drone that crashed in Croatia carried a bomb 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z Her doctor advised her to only gain 15 pounds because there were no epidurals used in the USSR. What does it mean to be a refugee? An L.A. artist examines her family's history of displacement and loss 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Those who nostalgically yearn for the USSR, will get to experience all of its glories for themselves. Column: From Apple to Visa, the business world is imposing its own sanctions on Russia 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z In 1928, the government began to seize over 25 million privately owned farms in the USSR. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But the Soviet government used the people’s painful memories of war for political purposes, justifying their rule by stressing the USSR’s exclusive role in liberating humanity from Nazism. ‘Denazification,’ Putin style 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z As Mr Putin indicated, there are historic ties stretching back to the days of the USSR, Russia's predecessor, when Africa was one of several spheres of competition between it and the US. Ukraine conflict: How Russia forged closer ties with Africa 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z The fact that Ukraine, once a key part of the USSR, broke away from the Russian Federation was an insult to everything Putin believed in. Ukraine invasion: Is this a new Cold War, asks John Simpson 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z In today’s Russia, officials bristle at any questioning of the USSR’s role. EXPLAINER: Why Putin uses WWII to justify attacks in Ukraine 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Hitler had begun planning to attack his ally, the USSR, as early as the summer of 1940. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Following the end of the war he went into the civil service in Sierra Leone and ended up working in the country's mission in what was the USSR. Pa Sorie: The Sierra Leonean proud to have fought in World War Two 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z “We just need to defend what is most precious to us until they defeat themselves. It’s how we killed the USSR.” Downturn threatens Chinese leader’s drive to re-impose communism 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z So Vladimir Putin, who seems to have launched his attack on Ukraine because of his 30-year resentment over the collapse of the old Soviet empire, might turn Russia back to the days of the USSR. Ukraine invasion: Is this a new Cold War, asks John Simpson 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z "My mother was born in Ukraine," Andrei tells me, "and I did my military service there back in the USSR. Russia and Ukraine are brotherly nations." Russia-Ukraine crisis far from minds in idyllic Vladimir 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z Yet in the decade after the fall of the USSR, the Russian economy and military were in catastrophic condition. Yes, Putin's a tyrant — that doesn't mean his Ukraine demands are unreasonable 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z The alerts signaled what appeared to be a terrifying reality: The United States had lobbed five intercontinental missiles straight at the USSR. Why our emotions are so powerful 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z Russia's role in World War Two has been recently included in the country's constitution and "spreading falsehoods about the activities of the USSR" in the war can be punished with fines or even imprisonment. Memorial: Russia’s civil rights group uncovering an uncomfortable past 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z Agaltsova added: “Russia sees itself as the child of the USSR. Of course we showed that there was state-organized terror during the Soviet era, but this is somehow very painful for the state authorities.” Russian court abolishes country’s most prominent human rights group, Memorial 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z It was a landmark event that ended an era: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev’s resignation 30 years ago finalized the USSR’s demise. As Gorbachev resigned, AP photographer snapped historic shot 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z Political experts argue to this day whether he could have held onto his position and saved the USSR. Gorbachev’s resignation 30 years ago marked the end of USSR 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z "What was the break-up of the USSR? It was the break-up of historical Russia," Mr Putin said in a recent state TV documentary. What is Russia's Vladimir Putin planning? 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z He maintains that he resigned from the KGB after the August 1991 coup against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev which led to the break-up of the USSR. Vladimir Putin: I moonlighted as a taxi driver in the 1990s 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z With a stroke of their pens, they delivered a death blow to the USSR, triggering shockwaves that are still reverberating three decades later in the tensions between Russia and Ukraine. USSR’s death blow was struck 30 years ago in a hunting lodge 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z Say what you will about old USSR, there was no gender pay gap there. Biden nominee for top Treasury post under fire for extreme views on energy, Wall Street 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Today China portrays itself as part of the "anti-fascist alliance" alongside the US, Britain and the USSR, giving itself moral ballast by reminding the world of its role as a victor against the Axis powers. How China’s past shapes Xi's thinking - and his view of the world 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z “It was the same in the U.S., the UK, and the USSR,” Hill writes. Review | The rare Trump insider memoir that doesn’t obsess over Trump 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z Ahmad Shah Massoud was a powerful guerrilla commander who led the resistance against the USSR, and then went on to lead the Afghan government's military wing against rival militias in the 1990s. Anti-Taliban resistance group says it has thousands of fighters 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z Putin, who described the collapse of the Soviet Union as “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century,” has continuously alleged that Ukraine unfairly inherited historic parts of Russia in the demise of the USSR. USSR’s death blow was struck 30 years ago in a hunting lodge 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z Ukraine declared its independence on Aug. 24, 1991, days after the collapse of a Soviet hardline coup that precipitated the breakup of the USSR. Constantinople Patriarch visits Ukraine for independence 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z Soviet interest in animal-based folk medicine and the USSR's own practice of farming deer for medicinal ingredients soon "provided modern and scientific sanction for the Chinese fascination with faunal drugs," Chee writes. The history of animal-based medicine in China 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z He also wrote the scripts of some of the USSR's most popular films. Rezo Gabriadze: Legendary Georgian puppeteer dies at 84 2021-06-06T04:00:00Z For the USSR, Yuri Gagarin’s single orbit of the Earth was a huge achievement and propaganda coup. 'The first spaceman landed in my field' 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z Unlike the US and USSR, in which science and technology developed on largely independent tracks, the US and China are part of a globally intertwined ecosystem. Big Tech is fueling an AI "arms race": It could be terrifying — or just a giant scam 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z They were generally higher than elsewhere across the globe, and especially in comparison with those in the USSR. The U.S. economy excels at one thing: producing massive inequality 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z Following the example set by the USSR, China was especially interested in creating its own pharmaceuticals from local ingredients to become self-sufficient. The history of animal-based medicine in China 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Religious believers were persecuted in the former USSR, but now Orthodoxy and the veneration of the Soviet victory against Nazi Germany form two of the most important pillars of Russian state ideology. Investigation after 'Nazi monkey' appears in Russian circus 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z She contacted several friends in the food business with an idea to start a nonprofit that would host similar sessions in the USSR. Seattle-based PeaceTrees Vietnam removes deadly unexploded bombs and plants healing instead 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z But Beth manages to find solace in the USSR, and not only from a welcome visitor. Anya Taylor-Joy and the winning style moves of 'The Queen's Gambit' 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z But the panel recalled “significant research in Russia/USSR into the effects” of such directed energy in the past. Opinion | Biden must call out Putin’s secret war against the United States 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z In 1958, with Cold War tensions at their height, much of the world’s attention was drawn to the first U.S.-USSR track meet, to be held in Moscow. Rafer Johnson, the Olympic gold medalist who helped bring the games to L.A., has died 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z The first space station was the USSR’s Salyut 1 in 1971, followed by another six stations in the Salyut program over the next decade. Smelly, noisy and awash with dead skin cells: life on board the International Space Station 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z Of course, back in the USSR, it would have been easy to think the country had dominated every event. 1952 Helsinki: The Cold War comes to the Olympics 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z After the USSR’s collapse, Lebedev went into banking and the media. Moscow-on-Thames: Soviet-born billionaires and their ties to UK's political elite 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z Changes in the top leaders on either side will not necessarily end the conflict, any more than the replacement of Truman and Stalin ended the U.S./USSR conflict. United States and China enter a new cold war: Kemp 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z After the USSR’s demise, the organisation fared better than the rest of the country. 'A chain of stupidity': the Skripal case and the decline of Russia's spy agencies 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z In those days, distrust only grew, while Washington decided to launch a global drive to contain and defeat the USSR. Trump's new Cold War with China 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z “Remember how oil production nearly halved in the USSR? It took a decade to restore it back.” Repair, abandon, burn: Russia explores options for historic oil cut 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z The mood of these places seems to strike a chord with thousands of Instagram accounts and almost as many coffee table tomes, all documenting ruins of the USSR. Why Half-Life’s City 17 was pivotal to gaming’s post-Soviet obsession 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z The U.S./USSR conflict is often portrayed as a successful example of managing international tensions. United States and China enter a new cold war: Kemp 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z There were obviously no free and fair elections in the USSR. Is Joe Biden the American Brezhnev? | Ben Judah 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z "But given the contradictory aspirations of the US and USSR, that goal was never in the cards." How a seaside summit reshaped the world 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z The race was on to alert and protect the USSR, as well as the rest of the globe, before the contamination spread. Performances we love: The understated brilliance of Jared Harris in 'Chernobyl' 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z She predicted that Nureyev would be the Bolshoi’s most “successful and profitable ballet since the fall of the USSR”. ‘They will destroy you’: in Putin’s Russia, how far can an artist go? 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z "Unfortunately, our country, the USSR, was destroyed," he tells the young audience. Putin stokes patriotism in small-town Russia 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z The price they eventually paid, with the USSR’s collapse, was world-historic. Is Joe Biden the American Brezhnev? | Ben Judah 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Moreover, the leaders decided - at Stalin's urging - that Poland's borders were to move westward, giving land to the USSR. How a seaside summit reshaped the world 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z The USSR's victory in World War Two is one of the most venerated pillars of state ideology, and more than 70 years on it is still celebrated with much fanfare and bombast every year. Why is Putin angry at Poland? 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z He wants to avenge what he calls 'the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th Century', the fall of the USSR. The man who helped put Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z As a result, Soviet forces were temporarily put on high alert in the Far East, and the comments drew condemnation from the USSR. Five hot mics that got leaders in trouble 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Many questions remain about his activities as a spy and what happened when he defected to the USSR. Secret identity of fourth Soviet spy who stole US atomic bomb secrets finally revealed 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Now he likens the MEK camp in Manze to Animal Farm, George Orwell's critique of the Stalinist era in the USSR. The Iranian opposition fighters who can't think about sex 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z But it was the death knell for the USSR, and one by one its constituent republics declared independence. How 1989 reshaped the modern world 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z A few years later, he was selected to be one of the USSR's first class of 20 cosmonauts, alongside Yuri Gagarin who, in 1961, became the first person in space. Leonov: Russian who could have been first to Moon 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Condé’s opponents have launched a campaign to prevent him from changing the constitution, and Russia’s backing does not carry the weight that the USSR’s did, according to Bah. 'Russians have special status': politics and mining mix in Guinea 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z As the U.S.-USSR battle unfolds in the book, a tug of war also ensues between the Soviet cosmonauts brought to the program and the strict propaganda demands of their communist state. Review: Novel reimagines US-Soviet space race 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z The swift stroke of the pen that marked the fall of the USSR. These stunning photos show the rise of China and the fall of the Soviet Union 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z One after another his friends were called in to confess whether he had ever spoken “anti-Soviet fabrications of a defamatory nature, such as that creative people cannot realise their potential in the USSR”. The disinformation age: a revolution in propaganda 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z The USSR's plan to land on the Moon shared many similarities with Apollo, but there were key differences, too. Leonov: Russian who could have been first to Moon 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z He offers him the chance to open for him in Moscow, where Jack pulls “Back in the USSR” out of his back pocket. Review: ‘Yesterday’ takes a great idea, adds too much sugar 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z Official media now tend to paint a sanitised, idealised vision of the USSR, and portray Putin's Russia as its spiritual heir. Russia vows Chernobyl TV remake over 'bias' 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z Mikhail Gorbachev, then president of the USSR, said it was a "real hell there" after visiting the accident site. The deadly train disaster history forgot 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z Eventually, after many adventures, he would end up working at the BBC Russian service himself, broadcasting censored art and information into the USSR. The disinformation age: a revolution in propaganda 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z The field developed in Georgia and other countries in the former USSR, but never became mainstream medicine. 'Viral cocktail saved my daughter's life' 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Documentary on Mikhail Gorbachev, the former general secretary of the USSR. Virtually every movie coming out this summer 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was set up to defend against the USSR. Nato chief reaffirms bond in US Congress 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z The Jewish cemetery, partly demolished by the Nazis, was then finished off by in the USSR. Forgotten victims: Uncovering a Nazi massacre 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z More than a quarter of a century since communism disintegrated in Europe and then in the USSR, China’s Communist party continues – seemingly – to flourish. Maoism marches on: the revolutionary idea that still shapes the world 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z Known as Khrushchevka, this type of five-storey apartment building is made of prefabricated concrete panels, and was developed in the 1950s when Nikita Khrushchev was in power in the USSR. 'Concrete? It's communist': the rise and fall of the utopian socialist material 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, such depravity seems part of the human condition, seen recently in ISIS, and parts of Africa; prior in Germany, and the USSR. Emmett Till’s Murder, and How America Remembers Its Darkest Moments 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z “To ensure I would not have to do that I signed up for a three-week student tour of the USSR,” Lydia Jean wrote. Perspective | RIP Fooman Zybar, the Ann Landers of Washington’s 1960s hippie drug scene 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z After the fall of the USSR, the United States and its oligarchic allies hoped that no alternative to their dominance would arise. Why does the United States want to overthrow the government of Venezuela? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Built to a standardised design in 1964, the cinema was one of the largest in the USSR. Almaty spills its secrets: lost Soviet art discovered behind wall 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z A new play by one of the writers of House of Cards portrays the power struggle between Vladimir Putin and the oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky after the collapse of the USSR. Thursday US briefing: Trump throws 'temper tantrum' at shutdown talks 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z The Republican president wishes the ongoing war was producing different results, which led him to endorse old talking points from the USSR? White House tries to downplay Trump echoing Russian propaganda 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z It has been able to withstand direct assault by the United States and it has been able to survive the collapse of the USSR. The Cuban revolution, 60 years on 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z The Soviet Union went by the full name “Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,” or USSR. Americans warming to socialism over capitalism, polls show 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z These first investments originated in the late 1950s, during the space race between the U.S. the USSR. The World's First Space Telescope 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z It was a challenge to which he was perhaps uniquely suited; his close relationship with Mikhail Gorbachev helped maintain global stability during the dissolution of the USSR. George HW Bush, former US president, dies aged 94 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z "Under the old USSR, everything was given to them by the state, and once you failed them, it's liable to be taken away," explained co-screenwriter Juel Taylor. 'Creed II' punches back at how Russian characters are depicted in movies 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Mr. Sentsov, he wrote on Twitter, “will become for Russia what Sakharov became for the USSR.” Rights Prize Goes to Oleg Sentsov, a Russian Prisoner, in a Rebuke to Putin 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z In contrast, Russia has 10 such bases—8 of them in the former USSR. How the tentacles of the U.S. Military are strangling the planet 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z The Beatles had many fans in the USSR. Russia's biggest Beatles fan Vasin dies 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z But it brought with it a communist system that crushed all domestic opposition, executed leaders of the wartime resistance and imposed a totalitarian order aimed at indoctrinating successive generations with unquestioning gratitude towards the USSR. Poles apart: the bitter conflict over a nation’s communist history 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z He made his name by popularising music by composers who were all but banned by the Communist authorities in the USSR, including Poulenc and Hindemith. Russian conductor Rozhdestvensky dies 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z So it became a supersonic workhorse, ferrying mail across the USSR. Supersonic flight: will it ever rise out of the ashes of Concorde? 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z For example, in 1986, combined data modeled from satellite images and weather data tracked the plume of radiation from the explosion of the Chernobyl reactor in the USSR. Should We Always Trust What We See in Satellite Images? 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z Because social democrats want better living conditions for the 90% doesn’t mean they want the country to become the old USSR. ‘Yes, I’m Running as a Socialist.’ Why Candidates Are Embracing the Label in 2018 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z North Korea plays the same game, so was Stalin in USSR, Assad in Syria, Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and other countless dictators in Africa and South America. Sanctions Are Hurting North Korea. Can They Make Kim Give In? 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Go on a tour to learn the Olympic history here and also get to watch the final minutes of the U.S.-USSR match replayed in the arena. The 30 sports destinations you must see in person - Golf Digest 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Arts students in the USSR, she said, were definitely not supposed to fraternize with Americans. Spotlight on: Elise Thoron, adapter and director of ‘The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao’ at Book-It 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z I'm sure this guy is far far richer than the typical "kulak" of the early USSR, who was generally just rich enough to own a little land and livestock. Putin Is Certain to Win Re-election, but His Support May Be Slipping 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z In '94, radioactive material smuggled out of USSR. Britain Blames Russia for Nerve Agent Attack on Former Spy 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Regrettably it is MAD, as it was with the USSR. Trump’s Abrupt ‘Yes’ to North Korea: The 45 Minutes That Could Alter History 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z Venezuela is as Cuba is as the USSR.... Can Venezuela Be Saved? 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z Eventually the problem was made irrelevant by the U.S.-USSR strategic missile reduction talks. Ruud Lubbers, long-serving Dutch prime minister who trimmed welfare state, dies at 78 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z Corruption in Ukraine is an important issue in Ukraine and its origins date back to the Soviet nomenclature system that Ukraine inherited from the USSR. In Ukraine, Corruption Is Now Undermining the Military 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z He held economic management posts in the USSR, and in the 1990s helped to push through sweeping market reforms. Strawberry tycoon in election race against Putin 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z Even the pollsters themselves call it “nostalgia for the USSR.” Inside the Beltway: Soviet nostalgia: 58% of Russians regret the fall of the USSR 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z The professional forester has been working in these woods for almost 35 years, having studied the Nordmann fir in its natural environment in the USSR—no small feat during those closed times. Gravity-Defying Villagers Risk Their Lives for Christmas Trees 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z The maps were classified and never meant to leave the USSR. 10 Awesome Holiday Gifts for Map Lovers 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z In Communist times it was known at the Central Lenin Stadium and was the most important ground in the USSR. Russia 2018 World Cup: the complete guide to all the stadiums 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Within two years it was selling its equipment to Canada and a year later to the then USSR, today's Russia. How an Icelandic firm became a global food giant 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Several accused him of attempting to whitewash Nazi Germany's crimes in the USSR. Russian boy's WW2 sorrow triggers abuse 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z US/Canada/UK will do or say anything to wage the information war that actually doesn't stop after the fall of USSR. No Russian Anthem at Olympics? I.O.C. Weighing Possible Penalties 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z The KGB, however, found nothing to celebrate in the USSR’s tilt towards freedom and reform. How Trump walked into Putin’s web 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z Despite the pivotal role of the region in the old regime, in 1991 an overwhelming majority of Donbass voters backed independence from the collapsing USSR. On the front line of Europe’s forgotten war in Ukraine 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z Around her, she heard people speak of how, centuries before Belarus joined the USSR, their country had looked westwards, involved itself in the affairs of Europe; now there was a chance to revive that relationship. How to sell a country: the booming business of nation branding 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z It remains the case that children from particular geographical and ethnic groups are the most vulnerable: those from the former USSR, the Balkans, Roma children, and most recently the Yazidi. Sweden's mystery illness 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z It was time, he declared, to make Ukraine a “real fortress of the USSR, into a genuinely exemplary republic.” Perspective | Why does Putin want to control Ukraine? Ask Stalin. 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z He mourned the end of the USSR, and once called its disappearance “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century”. How Trump walked into Putin’s web 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z Beria has looted Stalin’s private records, destroying evidence of his own cruelty while clinging on to the documents indicating the complicity of his colleagues in the USSR’s numerous atrocities. “The Death of Stalin” is a precarious comedic experiment 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z In the former USSR, the Grands have found themselves consulting with cities, regions and countries trying to shuck their Soviet past, but unsure of how to position themselves for the future. How to sell a country: the booming business of nation branding 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Sophie and her family are asylum seekers from the former USSR. Sweden's mystery illness 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z One section of the speech ended up defining Reagan’s combative approach to the USSR: George Lucas Wrote 'Star Wars' as a Liberal Warning. Then Conservatives Struck Back 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z When Soviet architect Sergei Andreyev designed the Beijing Exhibition Centre more than six decades ago, it symbolised the awkward alliance between Chairman Mao’s China and the USSR. All-conquering Xi: China heralds its leader in ecstatic Beijing exhibition 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z He wanted to write a mighty novel featuring “four decadent countries – the USA, the USSR, France and Britain”. ‘Dazzling and worrying’: my memories of Bruce Chatwin and In Patagonia 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z So much of the USSR’s control over its own dominions relied on the cold war and the fact that Russia offered the protection of its SS20s. No more nukes? Why anti-nuclear protests need an urgent revival 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z The following year, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, likewise condemned to be “liberated” by the Red Army, were forcibly incorporated into the USSR. The devil’s pact: Putin, the alt-right, and the long shadow of history 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z It also supplied the uranium ore to the USSR’s military industrial complex due to its massive reserves, the second largest on the planet. N. Korea should follow Kazakhstan’s lead 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z When news of Sputnik’s launch first broke, there was an air of scientific respect, despite the the geopolitical rivalry between the US and USSR. China and the US are battling to become the world’s first AI superpower 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Probably not because they want to travel back in time and live in the USSR. Capitalism's excesses belong in the dustbin of history. What's next is up to us | Martin Kirk 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Which is to say, everyone — US, UK, USSR, and France, to name a few — wants the List. Atomic Blonde cements Charlize Theron as an action star 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z In Soviet Estonia, the translation was an act of national resistance against the USSR, they said, while in the Middle East, translations took place during the Arab spring uprisings. Paradise Lost 'translated more often in last 30 years than previous 300' 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z That decade is now painted as a time when the West was running the show here, supposedly "forcing" its alien ways and values on Russia, weak after the collapse of the USSR. What the Nureyev story tells us about today's Russia - BBC News 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z The freedoms built into America’s arsenal for democracy, the spirit of Avalon carried by the Commonwealth, the collective reforms in the USSR, the National Socialist German Workers Party, were led by master dramatists. All the world at war’s a stage: From Nazi rallies to British radio propaganda 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z After 1940, when France fell, the U.S. joined with Britain to deal with those threats, and eventually prevailed with massive help from the USSR. The War That Started 80 Years Ago Wouldn't Happen Today. We Can Still Learn From It 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z The dissemination followed a well-established pattern: the story would appear in a publication from outside the USSR, and was then presented as in Soviet media as the investigative work of others. Russian fake news is not new: Soviet Aids propaganda cost countless lives 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z He imagines that George Kennan’s Long Telegram in 1946 argued that “America could survive only by destroying the USSR, or transforming it”; Kennan’s argument was, rather, that Soviet aggression needed to be contained. Are China and the United States Headed for War? 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z Philip and Elizabeth are ready to retire back in the USSR, dragging their children with them. Perspective | No, that wasn’t quite the ‘Americans’ finale (or season) we’d all hoped for 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z They've been lining up outside Christ the Saviour, the cathedral that the Communists once destroyed, but which was rebuilt from scratch after the collapse of the USSR. Why St Nicholas works wonders for Russians - BBC News 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z This approach worked against a very powerful USSR, and it is the only real deterrent for a regime like North Korea. Trump Inherits a Secret Cyberwar Against North Korean Missiles 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z This is what really brought down the USSR. CROSSTALK: Russia can be an ally to patriotic Americans 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Nadezhda describes Crimea joining Russia as "a return to the Soviet Union. Our generation was, is and will always be in the USSR. We will die in the Soviet Union." Crimea: The place that's rather difficult to get into - BBC News 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z A few years later, on the White Album, Paul McCartney paid homage to Back in the USA with Back in the USSR. Chuck Berry: the rock'n'roller who wrote the soundtrack for teen rebellion 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z In “Iron Curtain,” a furnace door lifts to reveal a photograph of a ram mounting a sheep labeled “USSR.” In the Russian hinterland, a search for the nation’s best contemporary art 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z The opening of Russia’s oil industry to American companies began shortly after the collapse of the USSR. Another possible reset with Russia? Trump should consider perils of Big Oil diplomacy first 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z Unlike the original Beatles, who merely sang about it, they actually performed a 60-date tour in the USSR, but their high watermark came when Oasis began to take unabashed Fabs worship into the mainstream. The B Street Band and other tribute acts who have come out of the shadows 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Cuba has been a formidable power in judo, following its leader the USSR. Under Fidel Castro, Sport Symbolized Cuba’s Strength and Vulnerability 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z About 90 percent of the population there was Muslim, but atheism was the state religion of the USSR. How the USSR’s effort to destroy Islam created a generation of radicals 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Like many Russians, Andrei holds Mr Gorbachev responsible for the collapse of the USSR. Fall of the USSR: Village that still sees Gorbachev as hero - BBC News 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z Printed on my visa were the words "For entry into the USSR". Russia: Fall and rise in 25 years - BBC News 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z But putting an end to the centuries-old Russian empire and its successor, the USSR, was a big step. How three men signed the USSR's death warrant - BBC News 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z Civil Defence, one of the first punk bands of the USSR, who were harassed by the KGB, released a song that openly mocked the positive portrayal of daily life in Soviet propaganda. How North Korean magazines accidentally subverted the USSR 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z "Do you accept any responsibility for the fall of the USSR?" Mikhail Gorbachev: The man who lost an empire - BBC News 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z He is the highest-ranking Russian official held since the 1991 coup attempt in what was then the USSR. Russia 'not seeking conflict' - Putin tells nation - BBC News 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z "Everything was bad and we cursed many things in the USSR. But later we realised it was not that bad." Russia: Fall and rise in 25 years - BBC News 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z The last leader of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, praised Castro for standing up to the U.S., even though it brought the planet to the brink of another world war. History will judge Castro's era, Obama says, as world leaders react to former Cuban leader's death 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z In the dying decade of the USSR, people became increasingly frustrated with the inefficiency of the Soviet system and their inability to get their hands on much-coveted western goods. How North Korean magazines accidentally subverted the USSR 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z Between 1985 and 1991, he visited Mexico, Chile, Venezuela, China, Tibet, Japan, Cuba, the USSR, Malaysia and Germany, working with local artists for weeks before hosting a substantial exhibition in each country. Robert Rauschenberg and the subversive language of junk 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z He is the highest-ranking Russian official to be detained since the 1991 coup attempt in what was then the USSR. Russia's Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev detained over 'bribe' - BBC News 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z There was no way that would cripple the USSR’s ability to retaliate. How to Master Your Intuition: 4 Research-Backed Secrets 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z “To the best of my knowledge, George Kennan was the last US ambassador to USSR/Russia to be banned from travelling there.” Former US ambassador to Moscow banned from entering Russia 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z They knew this because Russian-language versions of North Korean propaganda magazines Korea and Korea Today were both widely available across the USSR. How North Korean magazines accidentally subverted the USSR 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z "To the best of my knowledge, George Kennan was the last U.S. ambassador to USSR/Russia to be banned from traveling there." Ex-U.S. ambassador to Moscow says banned from entering Russia 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z In the chaotic years following the collapse of the USSR, Russian military spending plummeted and the size and quality of its forces diminished accordingly. Donald Trump may not become president, but his nuclear policy may live on 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z Across the globe, George Orwell's Animal Farm was not for sale in the USSR. Between the sheets: Banned books censors didn't want you to read - BBC News 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z The Russian identity narrative, which emphasized Communist leadership, was shaken to the core with the demise of the USSR. Russia and America talk about Syria using different narrative strategies, and it’s causing harm 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z While religion was never outlawed by the USSR, the state’s ideological opposition was evident in many of its propaganda products, such as one image of an anti-religion book tweeted by Bortsova in early October. Outdoor discos to kitsch schnitzel ads: Twitter account relives the Soviet era 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z “They said you should be grateful to God you were born in USSR. But this country gave me everything I have.” A journey and a race, run at warp speed. Or about 80 mph. 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z This year, Kazakhstan celebrates the 25th anniversary of its independence from the USSR. Will Kazakhstan Ever Embrace Democracy? 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z It shows another shift; this time to a lightness of touch, even a certain amount of wit, that would be lacking in most post-Soviet architecture as much as it was in Leonid Brezhnev’s USSR. The USSR in 10 buildings: Constructivist communes to Stalinist skyscrapers 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z “That decision gave life to a near-moribund project while also creating ‘space’ for U.S. and Russian scientists to work together after the fall of the USSR.” Science in the Oval Office: 1933–2016 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z According to the prosecutors, Luzgin realised that the text might instil in many people "a firm conviction about negative actions of the USSR" in the war. Putin backs WW2 myth in new Russian film - BBC News 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z After the dissolution of the USSR, Russians and Americans worked together to secure and dispose of loose fissile material and warheads. Five myths about nuclear weapons 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z After the Soviet Union’s disastrous 10-year war in Afghanistan, which ended acrimoniously in 1989, the Syrian campaign was Moscow’s first major military operation outside the former USSR. It's been one year since Russia began bombing in Syria, and there may be no end in sight 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Yet, there is also a deep interdependence, a mutually assured economic destruction, that did not exist between the U.S. and USSR. These 5 Facts Explain Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Foreign Policy Debate 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Moscow's relations with Yemen date back decades and until the break-up of the USSR, thousands of Soviet military advisers and trainers worked in the formerly-independent south. Yemen's ex-president says could work with Russia to 'fight terrorism' 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z The clear message was that Russia and Kazakhstan are maintaining Soviet-era bonds of friendship, despite tensions in other parts of the former USSR. Putin backs WW2 myth in new Russian film - BBC News 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z This so-called “Sputnik generation” that frolicked in front of his lens grew up during the optimistic 1950s and entered adulthood in the early 1960s, at the beginning of the USSR’s “stagnation decade.” The Surprisingly Wild Summers of Young Soviets in the 1960s 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z He said: "The Soviet government has ordered the dismantling of the bases and the despatch of the equipment to the USSR. I appreciate your assurance that the United States will not invade Cuba." Caversham Park: End of an era for BBC listening station - BBC News 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z I went into a field that required me to travel abroad, a feat either never or rarely afforded to Jewish citizens in the USSR. In the USSR I was a Jew in a sea of Russians. In America, I am just me | Margarita Gokun Silver 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z During the Berlin crisis of 1961, for example, when the Soviets possessed precisely four intercontinental nuclear missiles, White House planners seriously contemplated launching an overwhelming nuclear strike on the USSR. Endless war, endless greed: The Pentagon is lining its pockets with taxpayer dollars 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z No, he is NOT a Communist or Totalitarian 1-part Socialist a la USSR. Bernie Sanders Does Better vs. Trump? Wouldn’t Be Prudent to Assume That 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z In China and the USSR, they also took over the national economy. The Cultural Revolution and the History of Totalitarianism 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z An event copied from the Soviet Union, congresses were originally convened every few years in the USSR, with each one hailed as a major historical and ideological event. A history of North Korea's party congresses – what should we expect? 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z The full name is a mouthful: “All-State Automated System for the Gathering and Processing of Information for the Accounting, Planning, and Governance of the National Economy, USSR”. Technology: Beyond the 'InterNyet' : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z But I’d chosen the US as the best place for my fight against the USSR. I was a Soviet defector. Chess was my door to freedom | Lev Alburt 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Helping thaw the Cold War: After singing “Back in the USSR” from 1968’s double album “The Beatles,” a.k.a. 5 things of note from opening night at Paul McCartney's One on One tour 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z During the 1990s, after the fall of the USSR, many predicted an enduring triumph of democracy. The Cultural Revolution and the History of Totalitarianism 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Related: Black in the USSR: what's life like for a 'Russian of colour'? Meet Yosif Stalin, a child of the USSR living in Kremlin, Virginia 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z It's important to note that the U.S. supported Saddam Hussein during the Iran/Iraq war, as well as the Taliban when Afghanistan was at war with the USSR. In the Democratic Debate, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders Clash on Immigration 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z You were born in the former USSR, immigrated to Israel and now live in the U.S. Evgeny Afineevksy's 'Winter on Fire' took him to the front line of Ukraine's revolution 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z Remember a generation ago the glasnost in Russia led to mass protests and the fall of the USSR. The radical left has Bernie Sanders all wrong 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z The club was created to fight against the USSR, but in the end we started working with the state.” Putin’s Angels: the bikers battling for Russia in Ukraine 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z The five permanent members were the UK, USSR, China, France and the US – an American bid to include Brazil was vetoed, while Germany was a defeated nation. Seven key questions in 70 years of the UN security council 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z In both the U.S. and the USSR, the next generation’s emergence into adulthood marked a profound cultural change, and eventually led to a profound political one. The History That Links Trump and Putin 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z This organization is a copy of the Soviet komsomol, however, unlike the USSR, membership is universal. Life in North Korea – coming of age 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Whether Russia, one of 15 successor states to the USSR, which broke up in 1991, is still a genuine world power in 2015 is open to question. Is Russia still a key world power? - BBC News 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z Marina Tarsinov, a former national champion, learnt to dance in another remote part of the USSR, the central Asian republic of Tadjikistan. Why Strictly dances to Russia's beat - BBC News 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z He became an icon of popular culture through tragi-comedies that gently satirised daily life in the USSR. Eldar Ryazanov Soviet comedy film giant dies - BBC News 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z It was taken up by Western radicals such as the Black Panthers and passed around as a samizdat text in the Warsaw Pact nations, where the USSR's split from China ensured it was banned. Who, What, Why: What is the Little Red Book? - BBC News 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Unlike the USSR, there is one more step: the Politburo’s Standing Committee, which, like in China, is the highest ruling body in the country. Life in North Korea – coming of age 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Fifa supporters claimed the USSR’s complaints were unfounded and they were only whining because they knew they were going to be eliminated anyway after drawing the first leg 0-0 in Moscow. The Joy of Six: international football play-offs | Paul Doyle 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Retelling the myth of Ronald Reagan and the USSR. 8 of the biggest distortions, misrepresentations and outright lies from the third GOP debate 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z It was fashionable to say bad things about the USSR. Russia's Gulag camps cast in forgiving light of Putin nationalism 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z The Korean War lasted from June 1950 until July 1953 and pitted the US and its allies against the USSR, North Korea and communist China. US soldier's remains returned from N Korea after 65 years - BBC News 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z The books were translated and turned her into a symbol of changing political realities in the former USSR. Svetlana Alexievich: Exposing stark Soviet realities - BBC News 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z But now the lower house of the German parliament had unanimously approved the opening of diplomatic relations between Bonn and Moscow, without any conciliatory gestures from the USSR. The first FOOC - BBC News 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Conquered at the end of the 1850s, the Chechens chafed under both tsarist and Soviet rule and, after the collapse of the USSR, took the opportunity to declare independence. Putin’s closest ally – and his biggest liability | Oliver Bullough 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z He performed eight concerts ending each night with a cover of the Beatles track Back in the USSR. Elton John to Vladimir Putin: meet me to discuss 'ridiculous' anti-gay prejudice 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z The country has also added military bases, re-opened others, and launched the largest training operations in the region since the fall of the USSR. When climate change attacks 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z These things, however, stop short of a coherent animating ideology of the sort wielded by the USSR. Not Your Father's Cold War 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z Alexander Yakovlev, a top Communist Party ideologue and functionary for many decades, said that the KGB "directly ran" the Orthodox Church and controlled all religious activity in the USSR. Russian Orthodox Church lends weight to Putin patriotism - BBC News 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Jackson’s amendment sought not only to help these people but also and more fundamentally to change the character of detente, linking improved economic relations to behavioral change by the USSR. Jews stood up to the U.S. government 40 years ago, and should again on Iran 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z The false Japanese data have only come to light because of the previous discovery of the USSR’s fake reports. Japan falsified whale hunting data in 1960s, according to study 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z As Obama briefly explained, Kennedy was speaking about the Cold War relationship between the United States and the USSR, and the prospect of working together to limit nuclear proliferation. This Is the JFK Speech Obama Just Quoted in His Iran Deal Speech 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z As the end of the war loomed, the Texel Georgians’ future looked bleak – a return to retaliation and punishment in the USSR. Europe's Last Battle 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z At the time Russia and Ukraine were republics of the USSR, under communist leader Nikita Khrushchev. Russia examines 1991 recognition of Baltic independence - BBC News 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z The amendment made the principle of linkage the backbone of the free world’s relations with the USSR. Jews stood up to the U.S. government 40 years ago, and should again on Iran 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z In June 1948, Yugoslavia's leader Marshal Tito broke off relations with the USSR, in a dramatic move that reshaped post-war Europe. The letter that ended Yugoslavia’s links to Soviet Union - BBC News 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov is determined to stamp out all traces of the former Soviet Union, which his country was a part of until the USSR's breakup in 1991. An excuse for missing your stop: the station's been renamed - BBC News 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z The ensuing row deepened the divide between the younger generation, which looks towards Europe, and their often nostalgic elders, who lived under the USSR. Goodbye, Lenin: how a weighty symbol of the Soviet past divided a Ukrainian city 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z When Sanders was mayor, Burlington formed an alliance with another city – in the USSR. Inside the mind of Bernie Sanders: unbowed, unchanged, and unafraid of a good fight 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z Among the obstacles Nixon faced was the USSR’s refusal to allow on-site inspections of its weapons facilities. Jews stood up to the U.S. government 40 years ago, and should again on Iran 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z As evidence, she pointed to statistics in the field of medicine: In the USSR, 74% of doctors and surgeons were women, whereas they were still a relative rarity in the U.S. Why the Soviets Beat the U.S. in Sending a Woman to Space 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z He thought there was a way of working out an agreement with the USSR. 25 Moments That Changed America 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z The USSR's role in the defeat of Nazi Germany World War Two 70 years ago is seen as the nation's most glorious moment. The rape of Berlin - BBC News 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z The answer lies in the very nature of the war that was waged against the peoples of the USSR. KONSTANTIN KOSACHEV: Russia and the U.S. 70 years after Allied victory in WWII 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z Listen to the Beatles singing "Back in the USSR" . Is Country Music Conservative? 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z Vodka raised the Iron Curtain just a little bit In 1972, Pepsi struck a deal with the Soviet government that allowed it to sell its sodas in the USSR. 7 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About Vodka 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z That changed on December 14th 2013, when China became the third power, alongside America and the USSR, to land successfully on the lunar surface. Making tracks 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z The USSR's role in the defeat of Nazi Germany World War Two 70 years ago is seen as the nation's most glorious moment. The rape of Berlin - BBC News 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z "I want the Communist Party to return to power. There was more justice then. Those who worked properly always lived well in the USSR, and this rule does not work now," she says. Russia's economic downturn: Nightmare or opportunity? 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z But its economic policies are decidedly backward, smacking of the late USSR. Russia's Crisis Was Big Fun in Belarus Until the Economic Strife Spread 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Five years after the Soviet Union broke apart, I met former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who said those fax machines and other technologies helped bring about the end of the USSR. This Will Be the Most Disruptive Technology Over the Next 5 Years 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z The USSR's economic mirage, though, became apparent to everybody—none less than their own people, who had to scrounge in empty supermarkets—after oil prices bottomed out in the 1980s. Sorry, Putin. Russia’s economy is doomed 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z Back then, there was Syria and the USSR. Jumblatt: No Solution in Syria With Assad in Power 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z “In this respect Putin is pretty much in line with the former USSR. It is the same policy all over again,” says Camus. French National Front Secures Funding From Russian Bank 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z In Western Ukraine, the local elite were replaced by "specialists" from other regions and republics of the USSR. Ukraine's year of chaotic events 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Many years later at the end of the USSR, my institution did an economic survey that placed the estimate closer to one-sixth to one-seventh that of the US. Notable & Quotable: Warren Nutter 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z Before long, you had Gdansk shipyard protests and the Berlin Wall going down, and that was it for the USSR. An Open Internet Doesn't Equal Freedom But in 1969 they were released in a prisoner swap with the USSR. The spies in a suburban bungalow 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z In the USSR, the words glasnost and perestroika had entered the political vocabulary. 9 Essential Berlin Wall Stories 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Even during periods of relative détente between Russia/USSR and the US, such statements always held true. Ukraine crisis - the view from Russia 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z During the Cold War almost everything was tied to the larger U.S.-USSR struggle. Republican Party Hawks Demand More Military Spending Than During The Cold War; Washington Should Stop Squandering "Defense" Dollars To Protect Other Nations 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z The Serbsky centre is infamous for giving questionable diagnoses to many of the dissidents who were confined to psychiatric wards in the USSR. Russian artist cuts off earlobe in protest at use of forced psychiatry on dissidents 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z Dragile attended the Riga compatriots’ conference, but disliked what she calls “the mentality of the USSR”. Latvia Wary of its Ethnic Russians as Tensions with Moscow Rise 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z “We are ‘polite green men’, born in the USSR, just the same as in Crimea,” one of them told me. Exclusive: Russian Soldiers Reveal the Truth Behind Putin's Secret War First, a military bloc formed under American leadership, aimed against the USSR. Ukraine crisis - the view from Russia 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z All three countries were once Soviet Socialist Republics—not just members of the Warsaw Pact, like Poland and Hungary, but parts of the USSR. Hey, NATO, Why Can't You Be More Like Estonia? 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — the trio of tiny nations nestled against the western flank of the Russian Federation — only regained their independence from Moscow in 1991 amid the collapse of the USSR. Baltic States Fear Putin Amid Escalation in Ukraine 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z To his credit, however, he has managed to harness Russian nostalgia, cleverly recognizing that what many Russians crave is not the difficult path back to Europe, but the far easier return to the USSR. In St. Petersburg, the Ghosts of Petrograd From 1948 until the breakup of the Soviet Union, all world champions bar Bobby Fischer were from the USSR. World chess champion Magnus Carlsen could be stripped of title 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Analysis shows that by provoking Russia into retaliatory measures, the Americans are pursuing the very same goals as in the 1980s vis-a-vis the USSR. Ukraine crisis - the view from Russia 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Early in 1991 it became clear that the Soviet leadership had lost the necessary unanimity and ruthlessness to keep Lithuania within the USSR. Sale of the century: the privatisation scam 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z Years after the collapse of the USSR, Cuba remains a bastion of communism, central planning... and shortages of basic goods. A country where toilet paper is rarer than partridge 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z The two sides began fighting over the mountainous region in the final years of the USSR. Azerbaijan's president threatens war with Armenia via Twitter 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z A Cold War lesson: Challenging the status quo in Iran as we did decades ago with the USSR. These Are the Five Best Ideas of the Day 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Knowing his novel would never be published in the USSR, Pasternak gave typed manuscripts to a number of foreigners in 1956. How the CIA secretly published Dr Zhivago 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Five yellow cards were shown by German referee Kurt Tschenscher in the opening game of the 1970 World Cup between Mexico and the USSR, but not a single red card was shown at the tournament. Golden goals, golf carts and other World Cup innovations 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z On Christmas day 1991, the world watched as the USSR, one of the most powerful and feared empires of the 20th century, disintegrated. From Soviet Union to New East: welcome to our new network 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z It calls its parliament the Supreme Soviet - like parliament back in the USSR. The Ukrainians nostalgic for the USSR 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z It does nothing to restore the grandeur of Imperial Russia or the might of the USSR. Putin in a box with Ukraine 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z A “big bang” in the early 2000s brought in all three Baltic countries, among others from the cadre of USSR retirees. NATO's Very Existence to Blame for Ukraine Violence, Ukrainian Pol Says 2014-05-20T04:00:00Z The incident wrecked a planned peace summit in Paris, ending hopes that it would mark the start of a period of “peaceful coexistence” between the U.S. and the USSR. Tennessee editorial roundup 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z Here’s another passage from Bloodlands, about Hitler’s Generalplan Ost, his grand scheme to colonize Central and Eastern Europe after he crushed the USSR, relocating, enslaving, or liquidating some 45 million souls. Benghazi nuts, anti-vaxxers, birthers: Do they really buy their own nonsense? 2014-05-13T17:45:00Z At the time I told myself there would be a price to pay for this and countless other scenes of displacement, misery, and dispossession triggered by the 1991 collapse of the USSR. Emotions stirred in 'divided Russia' 2014-05-13T14:26:20Z Back in the USSR, Nikolai had worked for Soviet military intelligence. Meeting Ukraine's little green men 2014-04-30T21:24:51Z During the 1980s she became one of the leaders of a political organisation which opposed Latvian independence from the USSR. 'Russian agent' row hits Latvia 2014-04-10T11:57:26Z Artek, located on Crimea's subtropical south coast, is a famous Soviet-era institution which used to be a dream resort for generations of children in the former USSR. Striptease club helps Crimea charity 2014-04-09T11:03:28Z True, there was a time when Crimean Tatars were treated unfairly, just as a number of other peoples in the USSR. Putin's full Crimea speech annotated 2014-03-19T17:25:41Z After the collapse of the USSR, Crimea was an ideal place for Bacchanalia. The Crimea of Russia's imagination 2014-03-18T00:11:05Z One huge banner at the base of the Lenin statue read, “Our homeland: USSR!” In Eastern Ukraine, the Curtain Goes Up, and the Clash Begins 2014-03-17T23:57:35Z Three year’s after the USSR’s 1991 collapse, which left Ukraine an independent state, the country signed an agreement with the U.S., Don’t Worry, Ukraine Won’t Go Nuclear 2014-03-12T19:17:16Z The crowd dispersed, but Putin recounted in his memoir that he viewed the USSR’s demise as a personal humiliation. Power Delusions: U.S., Russia Face Off Over Ukraine 2014-03-06T10:56:53Z Is the conflict in Kiev so devastating that we can’t peel our eyes away, or are we captivated because of the ties to the problems of Sochi and deep-seated US hatred of all things USSR? The Latin American revolution will not be televised 2014-02-24T14:19:00Z "In our time, we did everything for victory. We glorified the USSR, our people and our sports. Don't let Russia down." The gold medal Russia cannot afford to lose 2014-02-14T15:12:12Z “In our time, we did everything for the victory. We glorified the USSR, our people and our sports. Don’t let Russia down, guys!” Russian hockey team carries expectations of entire country as Olympic tournament begins 2014-02-12T16:57:44Z The USSR's Big Red Machine had won four Olympic gold medals in a row dating back to 1964 and expected to win the ice hockey semi-final against Team USA. Scandal and drama at the Winter Olympics 2014-02-02T21:33:13Z Why didn't they take a bigger part of Romania then? why didn't they include the entire Romanian territory into the USSR? Moldova: Hostage in a geopolitical game 2013-11-19T12:34:59Z Mr Putin wants to build a new USSR, he contends, which would cost Mr Yanukovych real power. Stuck in the middle with EU 2013-11-27T19:18:22Z In the Cold War years, the aerodrome was designated as a potential launch point for military aircraft in a feared war with the former USSR. Five previous uses of Dounreay 2013-11-19T00:38:05Z To use a cinematic metaphor, the Kremlin has gone from being the USSR’s bulky Terminator One to the endlessly shape-shifting Terminator Two. Russia’s Cynical Play 2013-09-09T08:45:00Z Otherwise, you have to explain the many nations who have cheap energy and grow poorer, such as the USSR, Iran, Venezuela, Nigeria and many more. Economic history: What was the Great Divergence? 2013-09-02T10:13:31Z We should thank the free world and Ronald Reagan that USSR, the empire of evil, is long gone! Moldova: Hostage in a geopolitical game 2013-11-19T12:34:59Z Almost 40 years since he defected from the USSR, his English is still a little bent, if not broken. Dancer Baryshnikov back on stage 2013-07-04T01:21:39Z In short, while the CIA knew the price of a kilo of cabbage, getting that kilo of cabbage was a vastly different experience in the US and in the USSR. Three reasons why Big Data doesn't make you smarter -- Lessons from the world of Intelligence 2013-07-02T12:00:00Z Furthermore, Nazi forces destroyed or looted Russian art treasures during the invasion of the USSR. Row cancels Merkel's Russia event 2013-06-21T10:13:04Z Siret was a quiet border town, spitting distance from the vast expanse of the USSR. Romania's adult orphans leave horror behind 2013-06-21T00:13:11Z While the Moldovan communists may dream about eventual return of the Soviet era Vlad Putin will not revive the USSR. Moldova: Hostage in a geopolitical game 2013-11-19T12:34:59Z Old Soviet domain is new haven for cybercriminals Topics: , , USSR, Soviet, , , , , , , The Soviet Union may be a thing of the past, but its domain isn’t. Old Soviet domain is new haven for cybercriminals 2013-06-03T21:59:00Z Considering an escalation in nuclear device stockpiling by the US and USSR, this represented a major point of concern. An internet memorial 2013-05-25T21:54:16Z While he inspired a cult following in Russia, he was not widely known outside the former USSR. Russian cult film director dies 2013-05-18T22:39:08Z Efforts to implement this vision in the 20th century, admittedly under circumstances quite different from those Marx envisaged, in the USSR, China or Cambodia, worked out very badly, at times genocidally so. Karl Marx's ideas still resonate today 2013-05-16T11:00:31Z In a fourth study, Fischhoff tested his insights on a real world event, Nixon’s visits to China and the USSR. The perils of hindsight judgment 2013-05-01T21:45:00.207Z We can't have perfect protection unless one aims for a police state like North Korea or the USSR. Congress Grapples With 5 Key Questions After Boston Bombings 2013-04-30T21:35:23Z "When you add it all up, the report reflects the worst human rights situation in Russia since the collapse of the USSR," said Kramer, a former assistant secretary of state for human rights. U.S. cites human rights problems in Russia, China, Egypt 2013-04-19T23:17:52Z I supported both of them, but for their firmness against the USSR. Recommended economics writing: Weekend link exchange 2013-04-15T00:39:08Z During the Cold War, the Soviet Union trained Syria’s military and internal security services, and those relationships continued after the collapse of the USSR. OMG, Don’t Use Chemical Weapons? 2013-02-08T09:45:00Z Mkhitaryan was seven when his father, an Armenia international, died from a brain haemorrhage; he is already, even at 23, accepted as the greatest Armenian player since the break-up of the USSR. World's 100 greatest footballers: Nos 100-71 2012-12-21T00:05:06Z In addition, he helped himself to four goals in 16 minutes in a friendly against the USSR, and another four against Switzerland. Gerd Müller merits exalted place in history whatever Lionel Messi does 2012-12-08T22:00:05Z And this was just one of many Stalin-era killing fields across the USSR. The book which shook the Soviet Union 2012-11-20T00:16:01Z It was top-secret in 1959 and remains almost completely unknown to this day - the first Soviet nuclear missile base outside the USSR. Germany's most secret Soviet missile base 2012-10-25T23:45:06Z Russia is not the USSR, and the president’s cultural involvement has assumed less intimidating forms than those in the Soviet past. Tsar of the Intelligentsia 2012-10-15T05:00:00Z Tajikistan, a mountainous mainly Muslim republic with the highest poverty levels in the former USSR, relies heavily on labour migration to Russia. Russia reaches deal on Tajik base 2012-10-05T15:27:05Z And early on, he predicted that the world’s two Marxist giants, China and the USSR, would turn viciously against each other. Bibi’s Botched History Lesson 2012-09-28T18:15:00Z They were given the choice of joining the Red Army or forming their own Polish army in exile, which was to muster in Uzbekistan, in the far south of the USSR. A Polish girl's journey across three continents 2012-09-16T23:02:19Z During the last years of the USSR, there was an explosion of youth cultures. The last goths of Tashkent 2012-08-20T23:28:31Z China and Britain – was its lowest in a Summer Olympics since the breakup of the USSR. Russia Readies For Sochi 2014 2012-08-13T01:34:30Z So what's with the jibe about the USSR, I hear you ask? My 'surreal' moment as Britain 'literally' turns into the USSR 2012-08-12T15:00:44Z I guess there's going to be no better time to post this clip about the most well-known, and controversial, gold medal basketball game of all time: 1972 the US vs. the USSR. Olympics Men's Basketball 2012: USA vs. Spain - live! 2012-08-12T13:29:12Z There’s an old story from the bad old days of the USSR. A Meat Lover Says Yes to Meatless Monday 2012-08-08T11:50:48Z Outside the USSR, however, she was still relatively little known, in a sport that was among the most obscure at the Games. 50 stunning Olympic moments No47: Olga Korbut redefines gymnastics 2012-07-06T11:12:35Z The fruits of Whitaker's work was evident at the 1984 Olympics, when Britain won bronze after stepping in at the last minute following the USSR's withdrawal. 50 stunning Olympic moments No46: GB win hockey gold at Seoul 1988 2012-07-04T08:00:08Z By 1980, the West Germans had taken over the USSR's mantle of regular finalists. The Joy of Six: Great European Championship finals 2012-06-29T11:35:28Z Syria was a client of the Soviet Union's, but as with many other Soviet allies, that relationship collapsed with the USSR. How to Avoid a Wider and Deeper War in Syria 2012-06-28T18:05:25Z In the other semi-final between hosts Italy and the USSR, the game was decided by the toss of a coin, penalty shootouts yet to become the norm. The Joy of Six: European Championship controversies 2012-06-22T09:59:26Z Built while Joseph Stalin ruled the USSR, it's an intimidating stone-pillared fortress, with few windows, and lots of locked gates. Georgia's glass parliament a symbol of future 2012-06-10T01:12:50Z Charlton's squad were also pitched into a group of death, that contained the eventual finalists Holland and the USSR, and they arrived as rank outsiders. Euro 2012: Ireland's also-rans and oldies aim to revive golden years 2012-06-08T22:03:01Z England followed that up by losing to the eventual champions Holland, Van Basten making a donkey out of Tony Adams, before losing to the USSR. The Joy of Six: club v country friendlies 2012-05-25T08:30:01Z Along the way his drunken stream of consciousness highlights the hopelessness of life in the USSR. Rosenberg's Russia: On the election trail 2012-02-20T10:47:43Z Griffiss received the Distinguished Service Medal posthumously for his work in London and in the USSR. A forgotten hero of World War II 2012-02-14T00:31:20Z The policy began at the height of the Cold War as Cuba aligned itself ever more closely with the USSR. Cuban embargo at 50: US cars with Soviet parts 2012-02-07T22:31:10Z "I remember feeling that we had players who were going to frighten people," said Whelan, who scored with a memorable volley against the USSR. Euro 2012: Ireland's also-rans and oldies aim to revive golden years 2012-06-08T22:03:01Z "Shame on the Destroyers of the USSR!" said one. Witness: Picturing the sinking of the Soviet Union 2011-12-15T14:33:11Z Krikalev, you may recall, was the man they dubbed "the last citizen of the USSR" because in the 300-plus days he spent on Mir in 91/92, the Soviet Union collapsed. Space giants 2011-07-14T17:49:07Z Krikalev, you may recall, was the man they dubbed "the last Citizen of the USSR" because in the 300-plus days he spent on the Mir in 91/92, the Soviet Union collapsed. Space giants 2011-07-14T17:49:07Z Eventually both were sent into internal exile, only being released in 1986 just three years before Sakharov's death and the final collapse of the USSR. Shrek the sheep and the brains behind bar codes 2011-07-05T01:10:55Z Gordievsky had been based at the USSR's embassy in London when he was ordered back to Moscow on a pretext and interrogated. In from the cold 2011-06-30T02:21:20Z One of the girls thinks that China used to be part of the USSR. In pictures 2011-06-25T10:45:38Z Only on 18 June did Stalin order aerial reconnaissance missions to be conducted along the USSR's western borders. 'War in one week' 2011-06-21T20:17:59Z It was constructed in the 1980s for the navy of the USSR. New aircraft carrier 2011-06-08T10:27:16Z The country, with its Soviet-era command economy, is grappling with its most severe balance of payments crisis since the collapse of the USSR. Russia cuts Belarus power supply 2011-06-09T14:58:25Z This time, however, the United States is in the fiscally precarious position of the USSR, while China plays the economically robust role we once did. U.S. Becoming the U.S.S.R., Says Diplomat 2011-05-17T19:35:43Z In December I came back from Paris with hundreds of prints of the USSR. Century exposed 2011-04-30T08:41:50Z A former agent in the KGB's foreign intelligence service, he is author of such works as Two Hundred Myths About Stalin, and The Marshals' Plot - British Intelligence Against The USSR. 'War in one week' 2011-06-21T20:17:59Z The first seeds were sown in 1957 by President Eisenhower following the launch of the first satellite by the USSR. Space race 2011-04-11T23:09:58Z The Soviets were not aware of the schedule, but Sergei Korolev, chief scientist for the USSR's space programme, was worried the US would be first and pushed for a manned launch as soon as possible. A journey that shook the world 2011-04-10T23:58:42Z After the collapse of the USSR, it was rebroadcast on Russian radio stations, but these partnerships suffered as ties between Moscow and London deteriorated. BBC Russian radio broadcasts end 2011-03-26T12:18:36Z Many of the Russian Service's presenters were household names in Russia and the countries once part of the USSR. End of an era 2011-03-23T01:44:44Z Many of Russia's migrant workers are low-skilled and arrive from neighbouring states in the former USSR. Foreign force 2011-02-27T17:41:40Z If the renewal is a success, it will leave Russia less reliant on the nuclear arsenal it inherited from the USSR. Russia plans $650bn defence spend 2011-02-24T12:17:02Z The Irish Republic pioneered business ties with Moscow in the final years of the USSR, netting contracts to operate duty-free shops and other civil aviation-related business. Russia warns Ireland in spy row 2011-02-02T11:14:33Z But today's U.S.-China relationship is also very, very different than the one between the U.S.and USSR. East Vs West: Can't We All Just Get Along? 2011-01-20T10:10:00Z Tensions erupt on the internal border between Georgia and Ajaria In 1878 Ajaria was annexed by Russia and, following the Bolshevik revolution, incorporated into Georgia as an autonomous republic within the USSR. Ajaria 2010-06-18T14:27:43Z It brings together around 85 artists, most of them Israelis with roots in places as diverse as Yemen, Ethiopia, and the former USSR. Musician on a mission 2010-12-29T10:07:54Z Some, like that here in Vinca, ran on highly enriched uranium which came from the USSR. Nuclear rescue 2010-12-22T17:58:35Z |
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