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Last global superpower: Nearing the end?

I grew up amid the postwar exuberance of "victory culture." That's all gone now; our nation is running on fumes

Salon · Feb 18, 2024

Animal Farm review – Orwell’s unsettling allegory still resonates in the age of Trump, Johnson and Sunak

Iqbal Khan’s production lays bare the uncomfortable parallels between a mid-20th century Soviet Union and today’s marauding politicians

The Guardian - UK · Feb 14, 2024

‘They ask only not to be forgotten’: Barry Lewis’s heartbreaking portraits of the Soviet Union’s gulag survivors

Taken in 1991, during the glasnost era, these extraordinary photographs are a powerful reminder of one of the darkest periods in Soviet history

The Guardian - UK · Feb 11, 2024

From the wartime Gulag to becoming chair of Hamilton Accies

A NEW book will detail how the former chair of Hamilton Accies survived the Gulag and the Second World War to make a successful life in Scotland.

The National (Scotland) · Dec 17, 2023

'Cold War II' could wipe trillions from global economy, IMF says

The group says $7 trillion worth of GDP could be lost to a new Cold War, undoing progress since the fall of the Soviet Union.

Fortune · Dec 12, 2023

Putin Lands In Abu Dhabi On Middle East Visit

President Vladimir Putin is in the United Arab Emirates for a rare visit outside the former Soviet Union Wednesday, as Russia seeks to reassert itself on the global stage.

International Business Times · Dec 6, 2023

'For All Mankind' season 4 episode 4 review: The shove that shook two worlds

As tensions between East and West intensify, a workplace dispute and a cover-up in Roscosmos have major ramifications on both Earth and Mars.

Space · Dec 1, 2023

What would Lenin have made of the Soviet Union in 1987?

On the 70th anniversary of the storming of the Winter Palace, the country was in the grip of perestroika, glasnost, Lacoste sweaters and substance abuse

The Guardian - UK · Nov 26, 2023

Fewer U.S. college students are studying a foreign language − and that spells trouble for national security

When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, on Oct. 4, 1957, it did more than spark fears about America’s ability to compete technologically. It also raised concerns that the U.S. had a shortage of Russian speakers capable of monitoring Soviet scientific and military activities.

The Conversation · Nov 16, 2023

What Joe Biden's meeting with Xi Jinping means for geopolitical tensions

U.S. President Joe Biden has engaged in a crucial face-to-face meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco.

The Conversation · Nov 16, 2023