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To this day, the history of its breakup remain relevant to people in Russia and in former Soviet republics, as the end of a strict dictatorship also signaled national revivals. Despite their dominant role in the USSR, as the largest member state, this applied to Russians as much as any of …

On December 25, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as leader of the Soviet Union in a televised address, declaring the state itself to be dissolved, his office extinct, and all its powers conferred to Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Within minutes of his tectonic oratory’s conclusion, the Soviet hammer and sickle was …

In the last few days, President of the European Council Charles Michel has mediated a conversation between Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, and also met Belarusian opposition figure Svetlana Tikhanovskaya. The EU does not currently recognize Alexander Lukashenko as the country’s legitimate president. Azerbaijan, Armenia, …

She was called by some “Joe Biden’s most dangerous nominee.” Saule Omarova, the president’s pick for one of the US Treasury’s top posts, was born and raised in Kazakhstan back in 1966 when that nation was part of the former Soviet Union. From the word go, her views on banking and …

On December 7, 1991, three decades ago this week, the heads of Soviet republics of Russia, Ukraine, and Belorussia (nowadays Belarus) – Boris Yeltsin, Leonid Kravchuk, and Stanislav Shushkevich – met at a hunting resort in the Belorussian forest of Belavezha. There they signed an accord, effectively dissolving the USSR. …

Speaking on Thursday during a visit to South Korea, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin demanded Moscow pull back its military from its Ukrainian frontier or face the hardest round of sanctions ever imposed. When asked about which form the embargoes will take, he said that the “best methods” will be …

The exercise, which took place close to the Afghan border, concluded in southern Tajikistan on Saturday. Six CSTO nations, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan, took part in the drills. Over 4,000 soldiers from the CSTO countries with more than 500 pieces of various military hardware honed their anti-terrorist …

On Wednesday, during a meeting with Taliban representatives, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the group must use its power as Afghanistan’s new de facto government to prevent further chaos in the region. “We call on the Taliban movement to strictly follow the line of preventing anyone from using the …

This represents a direct challenge to the principle that EU law is supreme in its member states.  The tribunal judgement on Thursday found that the EU institutions often “act beyond the scope of their competences.” Poland’s Minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro welcomed the ruling as it “set the constitutional limits …

Militants found the missile cache lying on the bank of the Panjshir River, footage that has surfaced online shows. The Panjshir Valley was taken over by the Taliban last week following a short-lived conflict with local forces. Video shot by the militants shows around 10 Luna-M (NATO reporting name FROG-7) …