Russia Mikhail Gorbachev, last Soviet leader, turns 90 in quarantine Gorbachev, who is widely credited with ending the Cold War, was very popular in the West, but a much more polarising figure within Russia. 02/03/2021
Lithuania Lithuania marks 30 years of deadly Soviet assault over independence More than a dozen people lost their lives on January 13, 1991 when Soviet troops and tanks drove through crowds gathered in front of the television tower in Vilnius — seen as a symbol of independence. 13/01/2021
Russia George Blake, notorious Soviet Cold War double agent, dies at 98 Blake was jailed in the 1960s for betraying the British foreign intelligence service but escaped and spent the rest of his life behind the Iron Curtain. 26/12/2020
Russia Volunteers build path to site of cosmonaut landing in Russian forest The trail, deep in the remote Perm region of Russia, will take visitors to the site where 55 years ago two cosmonauts crash-landed after their spacecraft malfunctioned. 01/09/2020
Russia Sergei Khrushchev, son of Soviet leader, dead at 84 Khrushchev once said he hoped his father would have supported his becoming a U.S. citizen. “After all, it’s not as if I’m defecting," he said. 25/06/2020
Romania Gaffe as tribute to Romania's war dead conducted at Russian memorial They had meant to honour Romania's war dead but the ceremony was instead directed towards fallen soldiers of the Red Army. 09/06/2020
Germany Volunteers search for missing soldiers 75 years after Second World War Volunteers work to dig up bodies in Klessin, Germany to bring closure to families whose loved ones have only ever been a statistic. 05/05/2020
View Already vulnerable, LGBTIQ people are being used as a pawn in Putin’s latest power play ǀ View 09/03/2020
brussels bureau Scratching music onto X-rays like bootleggers in Soviet Russia A couple of music enthusiasts have been reviving a technique for scratching music onto X-rays. It was a method used in the Soviet Union to listen to music like jazz and rock and roll which was banned by the government. 03/02/2020
Ukraine Holodomor explained: The famine that killed millions in Soviet Ukraine A famine killed millions in Soviet Ukraine in the 1930s. Today, Ukrainians remember its victims. 23/11/2019
no comment Germany marks 30th anniversary of fall of Berlin Wall Germany on Saturday marked the 30th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall, a pivotal moment in the events that brought down Communism in eastern Europe. 09/11/2019
Lithuania 'Trembling with elation & fear': One man's memories of the Baltic Way Meet the man who joined two million Latvians, Lithuanians and Estonians in forming a massive human chain on August 23, 1989, to call for independence from the Soviet Union. 23/08/2019
Lithuania Meet the pilot who defied KGB orders to drop flowers on Baltic Way Meet the pilot who defied KGB orders to drop flowers on Baltic Way 23/08/2019
Hungary 30th anniversary of Pan-European picnic: How did it lead to the fall of the Iron Curtain? The Pan-European picnic was supposed to see the opening of the border between Austria and Hungary for three hours to promote peace but triggered a domino effect leading to the fall of the Iron Curtain itself 19/08/2019
world news Vintage car rally celebrates 1989 Baltic Way human chain Vintage cars set out across Baltic states to mark the 30th anniversary of a human chain of over one million people seeking freedom from the USSR. 18/08/2019
