The Nation on MSN1d
The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents
In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself ...
New York Sun5h
Trump, Calling Out a Wasteful War, Pops Putin’s Balloon
Putin finds himself in an ‘emperor-has-no-clothes’ moment, and the regime is destroying the country ‘by not making a deal.’ ...
The Tragic Story Of Laika, The Soviet ‘Canine Cosmonaut’ Who Made Space History In 1957
On November 3rd, 1957, the Soviet Union made history by launching the first living creature into Earth’s orbit: not a human, ...
Putin Gets a Snub in the Vast Wine Cellars of a Former Soviet Republic
The Russian president celebrated his 50th birthday at a winery in Moldova. After the invasion of Ukraine, it moved the ...
Foreign Affairs4d
How Artificial Intelligence Will Remake Espionage
In the early 1950s, the United States faced a critical intelligence challenge in its burgeoning competition with the Soviet ...
The Herald Bulletin11d
Brian Howey column: The Russian dissident and the Sunday school teacher
INDIANAPOLIS — By April 1979, Georgi Vins had spent eight years in a Soviet Union labor prison in Yakutsk, Siberia. Days ...
Armenian government approves bill to launch EU accession bid
Armenia's government on Thursday gave approval to a bill that calls for the country, once part of the Soviet Union, to launch ...