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Steve Jobs journeyed to Moscow, aiming to introduce Macintosh computers to the Soviet Union amidst internal Apple turmoil.
Like Spain after Franco, La Stampa’s Bernard Guetta argues, Iran faces a crucial choice between authoritarian decay and ...
NATO has allegedly deceived and disrespected Russia by expanding into Eastern Europe, threatening Moscow's interests. That, ...
President Donald Trump confirmed that the three sites were completely destroyed by Saturday night by six bunker-buster bombs and 30 Tomahawk cruise missiles.
Metallica's juggernaut of a concert in Moscow, in 1991. The Soviet Union was in crisis. A month before Metallica's show, a group of eight high-ranking officials calling themselves the State Committee ...
“Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev died this evening after a serious and long illness,” the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow said, quoted by Russian news agencies. He was aged 91.
“Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev gave us 30 years of sunlight,” Maksim, a twenty-year-old political science student, told the New York Times in early September shortly after Gor ...
“Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev gave us 30 years of sunlight,” Maksim, a twenty-year-old political science student, told the New York Times in early September shortly after Gorbachev’s death.
Mikhail Gorbachev was a village boy of Russian-Ukrainian heritage who changed the course of 20th century history. A man whose deeply held convictions as to the perils of nuclear war re-defined the ...
This door did not reopen until Gorbachev changed Soviet emigration policies after witnessing the 1987 Washington, D.C., Freedom Sunday demonstration when 250,000 people marched in support of ...
When the news broke of Gorbachev’s death, my mind flashed back to the excitement of those days in 1990, and to the lost dreams of my Moscow News colleagues, who had hoped for a “normal ...
After 1970, however, the Soviet growth story fell apart, and by some measures, technological progress came to a standstill. Economic stagnation may not fully explain the rise of Gorbachev.