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Russian objectors remember Prague invasion

A small group of Russians remembered the demonstration they held in Moscow's Red Square 50 years ago to protest their country's invasion of Czechoslovakia

World News

Joanna Stingray: The California girl that shot to fame in the USSR

This is a story about Joanna Stingray. A girl from California who found herself in 1980s Russia on the radar of the KGB and FBI for smuggling out underground Soviet music that Americans were never supposed to hear.

Russia

Soviet pilot found alive 30 years after being shot down in Afghanistan

“He is still alive. It’s very astonishing. Now he needs help,” the head of the Russian paratroopers’ union, Valery Vostrotin, told the state-run RIA Novosti news agency.

Germany

Germany unveils statue of Karl Marx in his hometown

It has been 200 years since philosopher Karl Marx was born, and only now has his image been immortalised in bronze and mounted in his hometown of Trier in Germany.

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Romania

100 years on from Romania's 'Great Union', Moldova won't choose sides

For Romania and Moldova, 2018 will mark a bittersweet historical moment: the centennial of the Great Union, which brought together the key Romanian-inhabited provinces: Bessarabia, Transylvania and the Romanian Kingdom.

Cult

Moscow show smashes myth of drab Soviet design

Dull, functional, and a bit rubbish are some words many associate with the products made by the Soviet Union. Now Moscow's Design Museum shows off the best of Bolshevik consumer goods.

Poland

Tom Hanks receives iconic "toddler" car from Polish fans

Russia

Stalin calendar pulled from sale in Russia

Public outcry has forced the withdrawal from sale of a 2018 calendar honouring Stalin in the Russian city of Yekatarinburg.

Russia

Russian 1917 revolution - internet style!

Historians bring the 1917 Russian revolution into the modern day using internet technoligy

Russia

Russian communists celebrate Bolshevik Revolution

Thousands of Russian Communist Party members marched across downtown Moscow to mark the centenary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.

Russia

Russia avoids ostentatious celebration on 100th anniversary of Bolshevik Revolution

Our chronology revisits the events in 1917 that shook the world

Russia

60 years on - Laika the dog in space

In 1957 the space race was on between the Soviet Union and the US, but it was the Russians who managed to send the first living thing into orbit

Russia

Trainspotting in the Shumkovo railway cemetery

Watch: Rare abandoned trains from the early 20th century reached their terminus near the Russian village of Shumkovo

Ukraine

Thousands in Nationalist march in Ukraine

Thousands of far-right supporters marched in Ukraine for the Defenders' Day and 75th anniversary of a symbolic founding date of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army

Russia

Stanislav Petrov 'the man who saved the world' has died aged 77

Stanislav Petrov, the Soviet colonel who famously 'saved the world' from nuclear war has died

Russia

Death of the man 'who saved the world'

Stanislav Petrov made a decision at the height of Cold War tensions that saved the lives of millions.

World News

Darth Vader, Olympic athlete, and poet - the new faces of Lenin in Ukraine

Ukraine

11 imaginative ways Ukraine has dealt with historic statues

AS the US struggles with how to address its controversial historical monuments, Ukraine offers some lessons.

Russia

Moscow to raze more than 10 percent of its housing

The city of Moscow will undergo a major facelift under a plan by mayor Sergei Sobyanin to modernise the housing of at least 1.6 million people

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Communists mark anniversary of Stalin's death

Russian Communists marked the anniversary of Joseph Stalin’s death with a march in Moscow on Sunday (March 5).