Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

HISTORICAL FACTS: 4 - The Untold Story

Soviet-era bike revived by Russian factory as Moscow shuns West

One of the Soviet Union's most popular bicycle brands has been revived by a Russian factory after spending decades in obscurity, the latest Russian-made product to hit shelves as Moscow champions domestic production over Western imports.

Reuters

Treholt, Norwegian Cold War spy who served Soviet Union and Iraq, dies at 80

Arne Treholt, a Norwegian diplomat who sold Western secrets to the Soviet Union during the Cold War and as recently as 2020 warned countrymen not to antagonise Russia, has died in Moscow aged 80, the Norwegian government said on Monday.

Reuters

Norway official who spied for the Soviets has died in Moscow

Arne Treholt, the former Norwegian Foreign Ministry official who was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union in what became Norway’s biggest Cold War espionage scandal has died in his Moscow home

The Independent UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

More lunar missions means more space junk around the Moon – two astronomers are building a catalog to track the trash

Scientists and government agencies have been worried about the space junk surrounding Earth for decades. But humanity’s starry ambitions are farther reaching than the space just around Earth. Ever since the 1960s with the launch of the Apollo program and the emergence of the space race between the U.S. and…

The Conversation

Blue Mountains review – brilliant Georgian shaggy-dog satire on the Soviet mindset

A welcome revival of a 1980s comedy prophesying the collapse of the Soviet Union

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the history of feelings: a serious subject

Editorial: Books and documentaries can not only tell us what happened in the Soviet Union and why – but why it matters

The Guardian - UK

Olympic bans and boycotts go back a century

Ukraine and the three Baltic countries have moved a step closer to boycotting next year’s Paris Olympics because of the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes

The Independent UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

War of words marks 80th anniversary of Russian victory in Stalingrad

As Russian President Vladimir Putin attends World War II commemorations in southern Russia, on the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in Stalingrad, Europe continues to support Ukraine in the war against Russian invaders.

Radio France Internationale

Space power China to build ground stations on Antarctica to support satellites

China, only the third country to put a man in space after the Soviet Union and United States, is to build ground stations on Antarctica to back its network of ocean monitoring satellites, state media said on Thursday.

Reuters

Holocaust survivor finds refuge from Ukraine war in Poland

Iya Rudzitskaya, a 92-year-old Ukrainian Jew, has fled Kyiv twice. First, in 1941, when she was just 10 years old and German bombs started falling on the then Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. The second time came last year, when Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24.

Reuters

Review: 'Kennan: A Life Between Worlds,' by Frank Costigliola

NONFICTION: An informative and compelling biography of the architect of the U.S. policy of "containing" the Soviet Union.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Why ‘canceling’ the Russian language isn’t the way to support Ukraine

During my sophomore year of college in 2010, I picked my major: Russian. I had been studying the language and was excited for the opportunity to read literature, learn about another part of the world and become bilingual. I updated my student profile on the university’s website and marched triumphantly…

Los Angeles Times

Canada, a superpower? Here's how the country might one day fit the bill

For the foreseeable future, the United States will probably remain the world’s most powerful nation. Yet, like any champion, it must watch for challengers and head them off. At present, China’s rise on the global stage troubles Washington. A few decades ago, it was the Soviet Union.

The Conversation

Analysis-Russian mercenary boss courts Putin with Ukrainian battlefield success

In the twilight of the Soviet Union, Yevgeny Prigozhin was languishing in prison for theft. Now as the founder of Russia's most powerful mercenary group, he is vying for Vladimir Putin's favour by claiming a rare battlefield win in Ukraine.

Reuters

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Al Jazeera

Russia using old Ukrainian weapons sent in goodwill on front line

During a disarmament campaign after fall of Soviet Union, Moscow received weapons as payment for Kyiv’s gas debts.

The Independent UK

Fallen colossus: USSR's terror, triumphs began 100 years ago

With its brutality, technological accomplishments and rigid ideology, the Soviet Union loomed over the world like an immortal colossus

France 24

From Queen Elizabeth to Coolio, the celebrities and public figures who left us in 2022

From Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II to France’s iconic fashion designer Thierry Mugler and the Soviet Union’s last leader Mikhail Gorbachev, many notable public figures left us in 2022. FRANCE 24 takes a look back at the lives and legacies behind some of the year’s most high-profile deaths.

Asharq Al-Awsat

NATO and the War in Ukraine

The end of the cold war in 1991 brought along questions as regards NATO’s future. It has been more than 30 years and NATO’s ability to adopt itself to “the most complex security environment since the end of the Cold War” has preserved it as the strongest military alliance able…

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Foreign Policy

Russia’s Arctic Claims Are on Thin Ice

Russia is making a freedom of navigation operation more likely.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Kissinger Calls for a Negotiated Peace in Ukraine, Kyiv Dismisses His Proposal

Veteran US diplomat Henry Kissinger said the time is approaching for a negotiated peace in Ukraine to reduce the risk of another devastating world war, but the Kyiv government dismissed his comments as amounting to "appeasing the aggressor" and said there could be no deal involving ceding territory. Kissinger, 99,…

Zenger

Putin’s Nightmare: ‘1984’ Is Now A Bestselling Book In Russia

George Orwell’s “1984” has topped the bestseller list in Russia, a year plagued by President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine

WEKU

A century and counting: Ukraine's ongoing fight to free itself from Russia

This month marks 100 years since Ukraine joined the Soviet Union. It did so after Ukraine lost in a bid for independence. Ukraine once again finds itself in another life-and-death battle with Moscow.

Fortune

George Orwell’s dystopian novel ‘1984,’ about an autocratic regime that oppresses its citizens, is now a bestseller in Russia

George Orwell’s book about a totalitarian ruler who clamps down on citizens’ freedoms and keeps them under constant surveillance is a big hit in Russia.

The Conversation

China and Russia’s uneven relationship can be explained with one word

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, China’s reaction in response to the Russian aggression has been fiercely debated in the western media. The majority of the discussions have focused on one particular term: “no-limits friendship” – a phrase believed to have been taken from a Sino-Russian joint statement issued a…

The Guardian - UK

Mikhail Gorbachev remembered by Pavel Palazhchenko

The former Soviet leader’s longtime translator remembers an optimist who wanted to achieve his goals by persuasion, not force, and understood that he was a man of history

1 … 3 4 5 6

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

University of Arizona

76 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.