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Inside the Sudden Collapse of the Soviet Empire

Few moments in history shocked the world like the fall of the Soviet Union. Once a superpower commanding half the globe, the ...
The Bowdoin Orient

Benjamin Nathans discusses the Soviet dissident movement in Alfred E. Golz Memorial Lecture

Last Tuesday, Professor Benjamin Nathans of the University of Pennsylvania spoke about the historical Soviet dissident ...

Hundreds gather for rare anti-Putin demonstration in St Petersburg singing protest songs: ‘The old man clings to his throne’

Hundreds of people gathered in the centre of St Petersburg in a rare moment of protest against Russian president Vladimir ...
UPI

Spacecraft launched by Soviet Union in 1972 is falling back to Earth

May 2 (UPI) --A spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 is due to come crashing back into Earth's atmosphere around May 10 and nobody knows where it will land. The Kosmos 482 mission launched ...