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.

The Latest Breaking News from Soviet Union

Putin’s three-day ceasefire isn’t a genuine move towards peace, but Ukraine has to play along

The Russian leader, Vladmir Putin, has announced a three-day ceasefire in Ukraine to commence on May 8, coinciding with the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory in the second world war. The Kremlin says “all hostilities will be suspended” during this period and has made it clear it expects…

The Conversation

A failed Soviet Venus lander will fall back to Earth after being stranded for 53 years

A Venus lander launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 has been predicted to fall back to Earth some time in May.

Space

Will the U.S. collapse like the Soviet Union did?

“You’re next,” said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union’s collapse in late 1991. I was an American student in St. Petersburg, and he was referring to the United States.

The Conversation

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

Trump Compared to Soviet Secret Police By Former Anti-Communist Political Prisoners: 'Shocked Zelenskyy Treated in the Same Way'

Former prisoners of the Soviet Union's communist regime have written a letter addressing Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy clash in the Oval Office.

Latin Times

China's Communist Party has ruled for 75 years. Will it make it to 100?

More than three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Communist Party of China retains a firm grip on power

The Independent UK

Telegram messaging app CEO Pavel Durov arrested at French airport

Pavel Durov, Franco-Russian billionaire founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at the Bourget airport outside Paris, French media reported, citing unidentified sources, and is set to appear in court Sunday. Russian-born Durov, 39, founded Telegram with his brother in 2013, and the encrypted messaging app is…

France 24

Peter Reddaway obituary

Academic who played a major role in highlighting the repression of dissidents in the Soviet Union and in the founding of Index on Censorship

The Guardian - UK

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

How the CIA 'kidnapped' a Soviet moon probe during the space race

To gain insight on how the Soviet Union built moon-bound gear, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) carried out a covert spy job on a Soviet exhibit in 1959.

Space

Grindr CEO says you have to be 'arrogant and crazy' to become a founder

George Arison, who grew up in the Soviet Union, is guided by the prospect of doing the impossible, he said at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference.

Fortune

Best Euros moments

From memorable goals to iconic celebrations, a look at the best moments in the history of the European Championship...

FourFourTwo

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

U.S. trade with Russia plummets to three-decade low, impacting economy

Discover the sharp decline in U.S. trade with Russia over the past two years, reaching levels not seen since the Soviet Union's demise. Learn more here.

Top News

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

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

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

As war engulfs Gaza, Putin sees a chance to regain some of Russia’s faded global stature

If it can retake its place at the high table of Middle Eastern politics, the Kremlin would be harking back to the Soviet Union’s superpower glory days, says historian Sergey Radchenko

The Conversation

Xi-Putin meeting: here's what it says about their current, and future, relationship

Vladimir Putin is expected to travel outside the borders of the former Soviet Union for the first time in 20 months to meet China’s Xi Jinping on October 17. The visit, if it happens, is likely to entrench a relationship in which Russia has become a useful tool in a…

The Hindu

Google celebrates India's Chandrayaan-3 feat with special doodle

Google celebrates India's success in Moon mission Chandrayaan-3 with a special doodle. India is the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the moon, joining the U.S., China and the erstwhile Soviet Union. The doodle depicts letters of 'GOOGLE' floating in outer space with an animated 'moon' forming the second…

The Guardian - UK

China is too big for a Soviet Union-style collapse, but it’s on shaky ground

With its growth slowing, China’s future is uncertain. We should be grateful if the change is not sudden

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Al Jazeera

Poland holds huge military parade as war rages in neighbouring Ukraine

Poland’s Armed Forces Day parade marked the 103rd anniversary of victory over the Soviet Union in the Battle of Warsaw.

Reason

UN Human Rights Council Calls for Punishing Blasphemy (In This Instance, Quran Burning)

Jacob Mchangama (of Justitia, and now a Research Professor at Vanderbilt) has a detailed item about it; an excerpt: In 1950, Eleanor Roosevelt, serving as the first Chairperson of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, was involved in a bitter dispute about the limits of free speech. Stalin's Soviet…

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Russian roulette: Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group rebellion sputters out but the Ukraine war continues

During the failed August 1991 putsch in Russia, the good guys were reformers Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. The bad guys were an incompetent claque of the military and KGB within the Politburo and the rebellion fizzled when Yeltsin climbed on that tank in Moscow. The Kremlin’s nukes were kept…

The Guardian - UK

The Wagner rebellion has been called off but Putin has never looked weaker

Images of tanks in streets of Moscow evoked the faltering Soviet Union’s final months in 1991, raising hopes of history repeating itself

The Conversation

Famine: the award-winning documentary banned by Russia for its reminder of a cruel past

In October last year, Russia banned a documentary depicting the famine that hit parts of the Soviet Union including Ukraine between 1921 and 1923 and revoked the film’s screening licence. Now the film is to have its UK premiere (with English subtitles) on June 22 in east London.

The Guardian - UK

‘Warsaw feels like a mini Soviet Union’: how Russian is gaining ground in Poland’s capital

Many from Ukraine, Belarus and other ex-Soviet states mostly get by in Russian – but its prevalence is starting to cause a problem

Chicago Sun-Times

Robert Hanssen, ex-Chicago cop turned FBI agent who was convicted of spying for Russia, dead at 79

He left the Chicago Police Department and joined the FBI. He pleaded guilty to providing U.S. secrets to the former Soviet Union and was sentenced to life in prison.

1 2 3 4 5

People

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

Organisations

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.