These traditional Matryoshka, or Russian nesting, dolls bearing the faces of Russian president Vladimir Putin and former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin are seen in a souvenir shop in Kiev, Ukraine, on ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A plaque commemorating late Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev was restored to the facade of his former apartment building on Thursday, a sign of nostalgia in line with President ...
Even those who do not approve of him generally consider Vladimir Putin as highly successful in foreign policy. These successes include Moscow’s taking South Ossetia and Abkhazia away from Georgia in ...
Four decades ago, Leonid Brezhnev led the USSR into what many Soviets called the “era of stagnation.” Vladimir Putin is taking Russia down a similar path. The USSR tried to recover by turning to ...
In a continuation of its current exhibit Posters of the Gorbachev Era: The Sunset of Soviet Power, the Russian Cultural Center "Our Texas" CaviArt Gallery presents Romantic Posters of the Brezhnev Era ...
The great writer William Faulkner famously remarked in his Nobel acceptance speech that “the past is never dead. It’s not even past.” That is precisely the way I have felt as I have watched Vladimir ...
Authorities have backed a plan to return a commemorative plaque to the Moscow apartment building where Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev spent the last 30 years of his life. A Moscow City Hall committee ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A plaque commemorating late Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev may be restored to the facade of the Moscow apartment building where he lived, in a sign of nostalgia that has been ...
Vol. 54, No. 1/2, L'expérience soviétique à son apogée: Culture et société des années Brežnev: Volume I – Le socialisme réel en trois dimensions: Passé, futur, ailleurs / The apogee of the Soviet ...
"You'll be there for the succession," one of my editors at NEWSWEEK told me as I was preparing to go to Moscow in May 1981 to start my first assignment there. Then he added: "But I've told our last ...
Asked to name a country defined by its love for food, one might think naturally of Italy or France. But Anya von Bremzen, who was born in the Brezhnev-era Soviet Union, says her homeland was also ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A plaque commemorating late Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev may be restored to the facade of the Moscow apartment building where he lived, in a sign of nostalgia that has been ...