Tag: Soviet Union

Communist-era medals and jewellery of historical interest rather than significant monetary value have been stolen from Berlin’s Stasi Museum (pictured)…

Vladimir Bukovsky, a prominent Russian dissident who spent 12 years in Soviet prisons, forced-labour camps and psychiatric hospitals until 1976,…

Leipzig, East Germany’s second city, held a candle-lit memorial on October 9 when approximately 70,000 residents marched past the headquarters…

The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany was signed 80 years ago in a supposed neutrality deal…

Russia has denounced a Lithuanian court’s conviction of 67 former Soviet security personnel for offences including war crimes for their…

Russian human rights campaigner and Soviet dissident Lyudmila Alexeyeva (pictured) has died aged 91. Russia’s human rights council chief Mikhail…

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) recently approved a US$35-million grant to reconnect Tajikistan’s electricity grid to the former Central Asian…

The Labour Party and family of the early 1980s party leader Michael Foot (pictured) have dismissed reports that he was…

Soviet soldiers were ready to attack US and German “troops” during the 1968 invasion of the former Czechoslovakia before they…

Bulgarian soldiers who took part in crushing the 1968 Prague Spring under Soviet orders refuse to regard themselves as aggressors….

A 126-page report into a secret Cold War Swiss army detachment has been published 27 years after it was written,…

Engineers at Russia’s principal nuclear research plant have been detained for allegedly attempting to mine bitcoin on its supercomputer.  Several…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has visited Volgograd, formerly known as Stalingrad, to mark the 75th anniversary of the bloodiest battle…

King Michael of Romania (pictured), who has died aged 96, game to the throne in 1927, aged five, reigned until…

On September 26, 1983, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov, then 44, was on overnight duty at Serpukhov-15, a bunker southwest of…