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Legendary Soviet shops return to Russia

The Russian government has decided to open two specialty stores in Moscow and St. Petersburg, selling alcohol, tobacco, candy, cosmetics,…

2 years ago

How Russian troops confronted NATO forces in Yugoslavia, in a significant post-Soviet first

The events, of the 1990s, in Yugoslavia are often overlooked in discussions about today's relations between Russia and the West.…

2 years ago

The Russian language in post-Soviet Ukraine: 30 years of discrimination against the country’s most popular tongue

If you go to Ukraine and walk through the streets of Kiev, Vinnitsa, Chernigov, or Kharkov, it may seem like…

2 years ago

EU country may ban Soviet monuments

Latvia's parliament, the Saeima, is aiming to pass a new law that would require the demolition of all sites and…

2 years ago

US infiltrated post-Soviet states with biolabs – Russia

In the 1990s, post-Soviet nations were weak and inexperienced while the US had the guile and resources to find footholds…

2 years ago

Protests kick off over plans to demolish Soviet memorial

Several hundred people attempted to gather outside Riga’s town hall on Friday as the legislature in the Latvian capital convened…

2 years ago

MP suggests turning Soviet war memorial into prison

Veteran Latvian lawmaker and nationalist politician Alexander Kirstein has said that people laying flowers at a World War II memorial…

2 years ago

European MP suggests turning Soviet war memorial into prison camp

Veteran Latvian lawmaker and nationalist politician Alexander Kirstein has said that people laying flowers at a World War II memorial…

2 years ago

UK looking for Soviet weaponry to prop up Ukraine

British defense officials and diplomats are actively seeking to procure old Soviet-made and Russian-made weaponry worldwide to funnel it to…

2 years ago

EU member paves way to demolishing Soviet memorial

Latvian lawmakers have overwhelmingly voted to renounce part of a treaty with Russia in which Riga committed to protect and…

2 years ago