Tag: Soviet Union

Karl Marx publishes Communist Manifesto

Feb 21, 2026

21 February 1848.

Woman denied entry by Baltic nation over Soviet cash

Feb 15, 2026

Lithuanian customs has said the outdated currency is a “tool of propaganda”

This European country is preparing to give up its futur...

Feb 10, 2026

With formal withdrawal from the CIS underway, Moldova faces mounting economic an...

The horrors of making Battleship Potemkin, 100 years on

Jan 27, 2026

Auschwitz is liberated

Jan 27, 2026

27 January 1945

We should still listen to Russian music – and there’s n...

Jan 24, 2026

One of the nation’s finest composers had no part in the present, or even the pas...

Rear-Admiral John Roberts, naval aviator who served in ...

Jan 22, 2026

He helped to fight off an invasion of British Honduras in an operation he descri...

Welcome to the real Soviet Union – primitive, brutal an...

Jan 22, 2026

Mark B Smith’s magnificent new history, Exit Stalin, lays bare the reality of da...

Russians celebrate 83rd anniversary of end of Leningrad...

Jan 19, 2026

19 January 1943. The Nazi blockade of the city lasted 872 days and claimed the l...

Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the USSR

Dec 25, 2025

Mikhail Gorbachev announces that he is resigning as president of the Soviet Unio...

Soviet Union invades Afghanistan

Dec 24, 2025

24 December 1979

Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov released from internal...

Dec 19, 2025

19 December 1986. Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (1921-1989) was a Soviet nuclear p...

EU’s post-Soviet playbooks have reached their limits

Dec 16, 2025

Georgia’s pause exposes a growing gap between Brussels’ expectations and politic...

Afghanistan repatriates over 200 nationals from Iraq, P...

Dec 13, 2025

In Kyrgyzstan, early parliamentary elections without pa...

Nov 30, 2025