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Earlier this week, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid declared the war in Afghanistan officially over because the group had claimed victory in Panjshir province. Nonetheless, the situation in that region is currently unclear, and it remains the last stronghold of the resistance, which claims it still controls a strategic position in …

The last US military flight out of the Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA) took off on Monday, a minute before the clocks struck midnight in Kabul. The 20-year war had come to an end, and the Taliban lit up the night skies with celebratory gunfire. To hear President Joe Biden …

On the one hand, the communist state was much more than Russia. But, on the other, Russia played a vital role as a binding force keeping more than 100 different nationalities together in the grand scheme. The Soviet Union wasn’t Russia; but at the same time, it wasn’t not Russia …

The pitch was published by Massoud in The Washington Post, where a modern-day Charlie Wilson could presumably read it, and is worded in no uncertain terms. “The United States and its allies have left the battlefield, but America can still be a ‘great arsenal of democracy,’ as Franklin D. Roosevelt …

Speaking this week, the one-time leader admitted mistakes were made during his time in office, but maintained that his policy of perestroika – the restructuring of the crisis-hit superpower – was the right thing to do. Those criticizing the plan “have either forgotten or don’t want to remember what the moral and …

That’s according to former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who wrote an article for ‘Russia in Global Affairs’ explaining his point of view that perestroika was “historically correct” and necessary for the USSR. Gorbachev led the Soviet Union from 1985 until its collapse in 1991 and is seen as one of …

Officials put out an emergency warning when the AN-28 light aircraft lost contact on Friday. After a frantic search of its last known location, authorities announced that all 18 people had survived the impact. Photos and videos emerging from the scene revealed that the plane, a Soviet-era turboprop jet, had …

In an article published on the Kremlin’s website on Monday, President Vladimir Putin described how almost all of the Eastern European nation had fallen under the Russian Empire, and how Ukrainians and Russians can trace their culture and history back through shared roots. “Thus,” he argued, “modern Ukraine is entirely …

Tens of millions lost their lives, and the economic potential of the country and its cultural property were severely damaged. We are proud of the courage and steadfastness of both the heroes of the Red Army and the home front workers, who not only defended the independence and dignity of …

The author Fyodor Dostoevsky had a grand vision for the country. Russia, he believed, would lead the West back to Christ and bring about “universal, spiritual reconciliation.” This it could do, he felt, because its people supposedly had a “capability for high synthesis, a gift for universal reconcilability.” The Russian, …