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Mr. Patterson, who was born in Moscow and spent most of his life in Russia, came to Washington after the collapse of the Soviet Union and to ... “I grab my coat and walk out into Kutuzovsky ...
Acclaimed Russian ballet choreographer, Yuri Grigorovich, received top Soviet and Russian honours. Counter-terrorism police are assisting the coroner, but his death is not being treated as suspicious.
There have been four iterations of the Delta-class submarines, designed to serve as a key element of the Soviet Union’s nuclear deterrence strategy.  At the height of the Cold War between the ...
Russia has blasted Serbia for exporting arms to Ukraine, saying it’s a stab in the back by its traditional Slavic Balkan ally ...
Pay attention. This story’s 100% true. Little boy. Born in Russia. Parents, poor. Pointing at him when he was in third grade, the teacher said: “He’s a Jew. Mean, greedy, all the problems we ...
THE SOVIET Union was a brutal regime fronted by dangerous, power-hungry madmen who ruled with a vice-like grip. Sound familiar? Vladimir Putin has never been coy about his Soviet nostalgia - but ...
Everyone from the Soviet Union associates this with their childhood. How do you make it? Take the spoon off the stove and allow the dark brown, melted sugar to cool down and let it crystallize for ...
A monument to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin erected in Moscow's metro is stirring debate, with some Russians welcoming it as a historical tribute, but others saying it's a mistake to commemorate ...
For 50 years, a 23-meter, 7.5-ton statue of Vadimir Lenin swept his arm out over Kyrgyzstan’s second city of Osh from a perch ...
A natural fighter ace, Ivan Kozhedub’s tactics were characterized by precision, aggression, and calculated risk.
I just, uh, kind of forgot to do the October Revolution? I got really into fiddling with the party makeup of the Petrograd Soviet and someone went and convened a government without me. It's great ...