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HISTORICAL FACTS: 11 | History Defined

Russian Grad Multiple Launch Rocket Systems Fire On Ukrainian Positions

The footage then reportedly shows Grad vehicles carrying out missile launches at night.

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Jews are leaving Russia again – is history repeating itself?

It’s not the first time that Jews have felt it necessary to flee Russia, but the invasion of Ukraine has resulted in the fourth wave of exiles in the past hundred years.

The Conversation

The inside story of the CIA v Russia – from cold war conspiracy to 'black' propaganda in Ukraine

In the early 1990s, Senator Patrick Moynihan campaigned for the abolition of the CIA. The brilliant campaigner thought the US Department of State should take over its intelligence functions. For him, the age of secrecy was over.

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UK’s Boris Johnson, in Kyiv, Warns against ‘Flimsy’ Plan for Talks with Russia

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson lauded Ukraine for its "indomitable" resistance to Russia's invasion during a surprise visit to Kyiv on Wednesday, and said now was not the time to promote a "flimsy plan for negotiation" with Moscow. Johnson, who is due to leave office next month, spoke at a…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ukraine will fight to the end: Zelenskyy’s Independence Day vow

Ukraine celebrates 31 years of independence from the Soviet Union, and also marks six months since start of invasion.

Al Jazeera

Commentary: Putin’s war in Ukraine is making shameful history for Russia once again

Tuesday marked an uncomfortable anniversary for Russian President Vladimir Putin. On that day in 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union entered into a partnership that paved the way for war just one week later. Defending Soviet dictator Josef Stalin’s decision to formally collaborate with Adolf Hitler to secretly carve…

Chicago Tribune

Defiant Zelenskiy, on Independence Day, Says Ukraine Will Never Give Up its Freedom

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told Ukrainians in an emotional speech marking 31 years of independence on Wednesday that their country had been "reborn" when Russia invaded and that it would never give up its fight for freedom from Moscow's domination. In a recorded speech aired on the six-month anniversary of Russia's…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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80 years ago, the Soviets began defending Stalingrad against Germany

Adolf Hitler was determined to take Stalingrad. Josef Stalin and the Soviet Union were equally determined to stop him, which resulted in some of the fiercest fighting of World War II.

WEKU

Russian rockets hit Ukrainian town on independence day, 22 killed

At least 22 people died and dozens were wounded on Wednesday when Russian rocket strikes hit a Ukrainian town and set a passenger train on fire, officials said, as the nation marked 31 years since its independence from Moscow-dominated Soviet rule.

Reuters

US will give another $3bn of arms to Ukraine to mark its independence day, reports say

Country celebrating 31st anniversary of separation from Soviet Union on 24 August

The Independent UK

Ukrainian Air Force Shoots Down Russian Drone With Buk Missile System

The images were obtained from the Central Air Command of the Ukrainian Air Force, on Sunday, August 21.

Zenger

The Soviet Union decimated whales — but its scientists were a crucial ally

The history of whaling shows how humans have wreaked careless havoc on the ocean, but also how they can change course

Inverse

Kyiv hosts a different kind of parade to celebrate Ukraine's independence day

Aug. 24 marks the day when Ukraine's parliament vowed to separate from the Soviet Union in 1991. The date this year will also mark six months since Russia's invasion began.

WEKU

Ex-Soviet weapons lab revamps testing facility -report

A major weapons lab in Russia has revamped its testing facility after it was mothballed following the fall of the Soviet Union, state news agency TASS reported on Wednesday, citing the company's press service.

Reuters

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The secret Soviet whale tale

The untold story of the Soviet Union's illegal whaling — and the dissident scientists who took records

The Conversation

Russia’s threats to shut down Jewish Agency raise alarm bells for those who remember the past

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 sparked a surge of refugees fleeing the war zone, but political repression and economic uncertainty have also prompted emigration from Russia itself. Among the emigrants are Russian Jews, 16,000 of whom have left for Israel in the nearly six months since the war’s…

WEKU

The Cold War to Brittney Griner: a new twist in U.S.-Russia prisoner swaps

The U.S. and Russia are trying to work out a prisoner exchange that involves basketball star Brittney Griner. While they've done deals for decades, the trading usually involves spies for spies.

AAP

Ukraine envoy calls for China action

Ukraine being part of the former Soviet Union has complicated the dispute between it and Russia, according to a senior Chinese envoy.

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Russia Shows Off Its Soldiers Using Grad MLRS

The images were obtained from the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) on Monday, August 8.

Foreign Policy

Germany Has Confronted Its Past. Now It Must Confront the Present.

Accepting—or rejecting—historical guilt for past evils doesn’t absolve nations of present-day responsibility.

Wales Online

34-minute Darth Vader is irrelevant, says expert on history and politics

Dr Chris Kempshall's new book shows how The Empire used to represent the Soviet Union, then it became the USA

Al Jazeera

‘Before Bucha in Ukraine, there was Abkhazia in Georgia’

Thirty years after the war in Georgia’s breakaway territory of Abkhazia, victims are still waiting for justice.

WEKU

Ukraine's wedding dress industry is alive and well, despite the war

The town of Chernivtsi, once the wedding dress capital of the Soviet Union, is still churning out dresses — for the West. "We are staying in Ukraine," says a dressmaker. "We will build our economy."

Zenger

Mykolaiv Paratroopers Turn Captured Russian Self-Propelled Artillery Gun Against The Invaders

A captured Russian 2S9 Nona self-propelled artillery gun fired on unseen Russian positions while camouflaged in a forested area.

The Independent UK

Jewish volunteers bond with Ukrainian kids at summer camp

A summer camp in Poland's capital has brought Jewish volunteers originally from Russia or other parts of the former Soviet Union to mentor Ukrainian refugee children

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