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Russia is sparking new nuclear threats – understanding nonproliferation history helps place this in context

During the 1960s, the Soviet Union and the United States came close to war over the Soviet’s attempt to install nuclear weapons in Cuba, 90 miles off the Florida coast.

The Conversation

Fries The Limit: Russian Fighter-Bomber Jet Down In Flames

The Sukhoi Su-34 was first developed for the Soviet Union,with an initial flight in 1990.

Zenger

Russia's denial of responsibility for atrocities in Bucha recalls 50 years of lies over the Katyn massacre

Ukrainian troops entering the city of Bucha, 25km north-west of the capital Kyiv, have reportedly found evidence of what appear to be horrific war crimes committed during the month-long occupation by Russian forces. Having forced the Russian troops out of the area, any jubilation at the victory was cut short…

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Tor Very Much: Russia Shows Off Its Tor Air Defence System

The Tor missile system was originally developed by the Soviet Union and current versions built by the Russian Federation.

Zenger

Kremlin Warns West: Rouble-for-Gas Scheme Is the 'Prototype'

President Vladimir Putin's rouble payment scheme for natural gas is the prototype that the world's largest country will extend to other major exports because the West has sealed the decline of the US dollar by freezing Russian assets, the Kremlin said. Russia's economy is facing the gravest crisis since the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

The Soviet plan to send tanks down the Mancunian Way: Russia's blueprint for invading Greater Manchester

Bury New Road and Washway Road were identified as key routes for tanks

Manchester Evening News

Xi Jinping once called Vladimir Putin his ‘bosom buddy’, but Russia's failing gambit in Ukraine hands China an opportunity

China wants to strengthen ties with Russia, but given the complex love-hate relationship between the two powers, it's not clear how that will play out in Ukraine.

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A youthquake against Putin is unlikely. The history of Soviet hippies shows why

They created parallel universes without confronting the political order – although their satirical stance lives on, says Juliane Fürst of the Centre of Contemporary History at Potsdam

The Guardian - UK

All Russia’s Big Exports Could Soon Be in Roubles, Kremlin Signals

The Kremlin indicated on Wednesday that all of Russia's energy and commodity exports could be priced in roubles, toughening President Vladimir Putin's attempt to make the West feel the pain of the sanctions it imposed for the invasion of Ukraine. With Russia's economy facing its gravest crisis since the 1991…

Asharq Al-Awsat

It's time to kill off the Soviet Union in cyberspace

Let's retire the .su country code

Reason

Ukraine: the pawn in the power game

History will not absolve the U.S. of a part of the blame for the human tragedy that has engulfed Ukraine

The Hindu

50 years ago, a Soviet spacecraft spent a critical 50 minutes on Venus

Launched in March 1972, Venera-8 was part of the Soviet Union's exploration of Venus — in less than an hour it revealed critical details of this seemingly inaccessible planet.

Inverse

Index on Censorship, inspired by Soviet dissidents, marks 50 years of fighting for free speech

The brave protests of Soviet dissidents in 1968 spawned an organisation that is still giving voice to Putin’s critics today

The Guardian - UK

In fiery speech, Biden calls out Putin on Ukraine: ‘This man cannot remain in power’

LVIV, Ukraine — With the war in Ukraine at a critical juncture, President Joe Biden on Saturday used the capital of a country once dominated by the Soviet Union to demand an end to Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s vast power and to exhort U.S. allies to stand up to Russia’s…

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In fiery speech, Biden calls out Putin on Ukraine: ‘This man cannot remain in power’

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Biden calls for end of power for Russia’s Putin in speech on Western unity on Ukraine

LVIV, Ukraine — With the war in Ukraine at a critical juncture, President Joe Biden on Saturday used the capital of a country once dominated by the Soviet Union to demand an end to the rule of Russian President Vladimir Putin and to exhort U.S. allies to stand up to…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Biden Ending Europe Trip with Unity Message that Echoes Past

Twenty-five years ago, Joe Biden visited Warsaw, Poland, with a warning: Even though the Soviet Union had collapsed, some of NATO’s original members weren’t doing enough to ensure the alliance’s collective defense. “Now it is time for the people of Western Europe to invest in the security of their continent…

The Conversation

When Putin says Russia and Ukraine share one faith, he's leaving out a lot of the story

Russian President Vladimir Putin has often asserted that Russians and Ukrainians are “one people.” He points to a few factors: the Russian language spoken widely in both countries, their similar cultures, and the two countries’ political connections, which date back to medieval times. But there is one more factor that…

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Commentary: Speaking Russian doesn’t make me a supporter of Putin’s war

While celebrating Purim with my family last week, I learned that our friend Daniel Lerman’s business has received 20-30 threatening calls and emails a day, as well as a cadre of negative online reviews. He owns Russian Universal Services, which helps Russian speakers complete legal documents. Daniel immigrated to Los…

The Conversation

Ukraine's fight for its identity is more than a century old – it is not about to stop

In just three weeks, the war in Ukraine has seen what could be the largest refugee movement since the second world war.

The Street

The Richest Russian Is Free. Are Sanctions Targeting the Right People?

Meet an ice hockey chum of Vladimir Putin, a beneficiary of the fall of the Soviet Union and a collector of various yachts.

ABC News

In the Russia-Ukraine information war, propaganda master Vladimir Putin is being outdone by savvy Volodomyr Zelenskyy

While Ukraine's celebrity President Volodymyr Zelenskyy harnesses the power of social media to win the information war, Russia's old-fashioned propagandist Vladimir Putin is being schooled.

Benzinga

Why China Hasn't Condemned Russia: American-Led Sanctions Against Russia For Its Invasion Of Ukraine Are Fueling A Global Realignment.

"The friendship of the peoples of China and the Soviet Union is everlasting." 1967 Sino-Soviet propaganda poster (via Soviet Visuals).

Al Jazeera

Russia-Ukraine: The civilians fighting on Kyiv’s front lines

People are swapping suits for army fatigues, volunteering with the Territorial Defence Forces to fight Russian troops.

The Guardian - UK

Russia and western values: how the east was lost to capitalist opportunism

Letters: Michael Meadowcroft on the west’s mistakes after the collapse of the Soviet Union and Anthony Matthew on why proposing a Nuremberg-style tribunal for Vladimir Putin is a bad idea. Plus letters from Tony Wild and Oscar Clarke

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