By Somar Wijayadasa. On February 19, 1957, Mr. S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, the Prime Minister of Ceylon (later Sri Lanka) established diplomatic relations with the former Soviet Union, now Russia, thus ...

During the Cold War, non-aligned countries, like Sri Lanka, opposed colonialism, apartheid, and imperialism, even as they avoided alignment with either the US or the Soviet Union. Sri Lanka’s foreign ...

About 40 students, lecturers and university workers took part in a discussion at Peradeniya University in Sri Lanka on August 27 on the book, Leon Trotsky & the Post-Soviet School of Historical ...

Today, 20 years after the dismantling of the Soviet Union, Russia has invaded Ukraine. I thought of bringing this new issue to our discussion and, shedding some light on its far-reaching economic ...

Hopes and Lessons 20 Years after the Collapse of the Soviet Union The aftermath of Sri Lanka’s quarter century-long civil war, which ended in May 2009 with the defeat of the separatist ...

COLOMBO (AFP) - A Sri Lankan court on Monday (Aug 8) released on bail top leftist trade union leader Joseph Stalin, whose arrest had sparked international condemnation and widespread protests.