News Source: The News Journal
| 14 days ago
When Russian businessman Yevgeny Ostrovsky decided to name his kebab joint Anti-Soviet Shashlik, he thought of it as black humor. It was a little tongue in cheek, a little retro, a little nod to the old-timers who still remembered when the meat...
News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| 15 days ago
Soviet Union and the United States, obliges both sides to reduce their nuclear warheads to 6,000 and delivery vehicles to 1,600. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama agreed at a July summit in Moscow on the...
News Source: The Independent
| 15 days ago
The collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia's President Vladimir Putin famously once proclaimed, was "the biggest geopolitical catastrophe of the century". Putin was speaking as a former Soviet apparatchik, in language calculated to stoke ever-...
News Source: The New York Times
| 15 days ago
Along with the perennial calls for “land for farmers” and “factories for workers,” Communists who marched in Moscow on the Saturday anniversary of the 1917 revolution offered a slogan of more recent vintage: “ Russia without Putin.” As...
News Source: Washington Post
| 15 days ago
After months of negotiations with Russia , Obama administration officials are hopeful about a breakthrough -- possibly this week -- that would enable the two sides to sign a successor to their most extensive nuclear weapons treaty before it expires...
News Source: Hindustan times
| 15 days ago
Medvedev's predecessor and strongman Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, a former KGB agent who served in Communist East Germany, notoriously used that phrase in a national address in 2005 to describe the collapse of the Soviet Union. In an interview with...