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Sympathy towards wartime Russia has deep historical roots, back to the Cold War era and earlier.

Russian chess world champion who lost to Bobby Fischer in the sport’s most famous match at the peak of the cold war

On 3 December 1989, the US and the USSR declared an end to the cold war. A few days later, European Community leaders met to shape a single European market for the 1990s. See how the Guardian reported events

Joseph Stalin was no great lover of the arts, unlike other Communist leaders, but he recognised their power to stir his people’s souls in the pursuit of his political goals.

The first nuclear bomb test, conducted in 1945, set off an international arms race that included nuclear testing. But how many nuclear bombs have been detonated during tests and in active war?

A new album of rare grooves from Soviet Central Asia reveals an era when the region was a crucible for musical fusion.

The ‘Korean Wave’ has breathed new life into Korean communities first exiled to central Asia by Stalin – but at a cost.

The vice president and Democratic presidential nominee plans to punish grocery stores for price gouging, and proposed grants to first-time homebuyers.

Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter sentenced to 16 years in Russia on disputed espionage charges, was released Thursday in a major multinational prisoner swap after spending more than a year behind bars. Originally from Russia, the journalist returned in 2017 to the country of his parents, Soviet Jews…

The end of the all-powerful social networks seems inconceivable, but the disintegration of the Soviet giant once did too

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