Living Through the Collapse of the Soviet Union Inspired Him to Create a Global Teaching ...
For the episode of the Founder CEO, I spoke with Michal Borkowski, the visionary behind Brainly, a global education ...
Cambridge University Press1 年
Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State
European Consortium for Political Research Extremism and Democracy Newsletter, e-Extreme, reviewer Juri Shabajev, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ural Division "Mark Beissinger's book is the most ...
Putin Sees America Hurtling to Disaster, With Trump at the Wheel
It’s that to many in the Kremlin, a Trump presidency might bring about the collapse of the American state. The idea that the ...
The Diplomat7 年
Soviet Union collapse
The Soviet Union’s collapse 32 years ago led to rapid change, economic collapse, and violence. In Tajikistan, that violence slid rapidly into civil war. Five experts explore the legacy of the ...
Russia Has a Disturbing History of Deadly Falls
One of the greatest Russian ballet dancers of his generation plunged to a tragic death from the fifth floor of his apartment ...
Altoona Mirror2 年
Fall of the USSR, 30 years later
In his memoirs, Gorbachev expressed bitterness about the 1991 agreement, which doomed his desperate attempt to save the USSR from collapse by trying to negotiate a new “union treaty” among the ...
National Interest on MSN2 天
Russia's MiG 1.44 Stealth Fighter Nightmare Explained in 2 Words
The Mikoyan MiG-1.44 was a Russian experimental fifth-generation jet fighter developed by the Mikoyan design bureau as a ...
TASS1 年
Collapse of USSR opened way to conflict in Ukraine — official
TASS/. Tectonic processes underway in the world and the Ukrainian conflict originated as early as at the time of collapse of the USSR, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry ...
Putin justifies war in Ukraine by accusing Kyiv of violating a treaty Moscow violated ...
Ukraine abandoned its constitutional neutrality to pursue EU and NATO membership only in 2019, years after Russia annexed ...
Worcester Mag1 天Opinion
'A milestone largely faded from collective memory': The fall of the Berlin Wall remembered
The 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall earlier this month received little attention ... but for some, the ...
The rise of rock and rap in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union
Timothy Ryback’s memorable book “Rock Around the Bloc” recounted how Elton John famously shook Moscow way back in 1979, ...
Kyiv Post6 天
Should Ukraine Become a Nuclear Power?
After the collapse of the USSR, Ukraine agreed to the withdrawal of Soviet nuclear weapons when it signed the Budapest Memorandum. In return, it received security guarantees that now prove worthless.