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Russia celebrates Victory Day

May 9, 2012 The Moscow Times, RIA Novosti
Russia is holding a Parade in Red Square to mark the 67th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in the 1941-45 Great Patriotic War

What Russians think about Stalin

May 4, 2012 Vladimir Ruvinsky, RIR
In the West, Stalin is remembered for the terror he inflicted on his own people, while at home the collective memory is more complex

What Stalin thought of Gandhi and Nehru

May 3, 2012 Valeriy Kashin, specially for RIR
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin saw India's independence as a sham and its iconic leaders like Gandhi and Nehru as counter-revolutionary forces. Stalin's attitude only shows how ideology can prejudice diplomatic relations

The way we were: Communism revisited

April 26, 2012 Daria Gonzales, RIR
Statues, buildings and smaller mementoes of the recent past have been preserved as a reminder of Communist times

The russophile dilemma in India

March 28, 2012 Ajay Kamalakaran
In India people who sympathise with Russia are often classified as ultra-leftists. But times have changed, and the word Russophile does not have to mean communist.

Gorbachev, Not O'Neill, Deserves BRIC Credit

March 22, 2012 Sergey Radchenko, The Moscow Times
When today we hear about BRIC and multipolarity, hardly anyone knows about the Chinese or Indian dimensions of Gorbachev's foreign policy.

First woman in space

March 12, 2012 Daria Gonzales
This week Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, celebrated her 75th birthday

Monuments of the past: destroy or preserve?

February 21, 2012 Peter Cheremushkin, The Moscow Times
When the Soviet Union fell, country witnessed the fall of its monuments. But the tendency to destroy old symbols and build new ones is as old as humanity.

Putin faces an uphill task to realize his plan for Eurasian Economic Union

January 27, 2012 Dadan Upadhyay, specially for RIR
The Customs Union formed by the three former Soviet Republics of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, moved a step forward to their complete integration with the creation of a Common Economic Space (CES) on January 1

Holiday of Soviet photography

January 27, 2012 Natalia Zaytseva, Russian Reporter
Russian and Soviet winners from the World Press Photo 1955-2010.

Unageing monument: Lenin is forever

January 18, 2012 Grigory Kubatian, specially for RIR
Communism is dead, but Vladimir Lenin is alive and kicking in around 6,000 statues and monuments dedicated to him, which are scattered all over Russia. Do not dare to mess with those precious monuments lest you incur the wrath of the revolutionary le

From poster to icon

January 18, 2012 Xenia Grubstein, specially for RIR
The Story of the TASS Poster, 1941-1945

More questions than answers in North Korea

January 16, 2012 Andrei Ilyashenko, RIR
As Kim Jong Un succeeds his father, political experts around the world wait to see if he will bring about new dialogue with the North Korea’s neighbors or if he will continue the isolationist policies of his predecessors

Five things we never thanked the Soviet Union for

December 22, 2011 Aanchal Anand
Women’s right to vote and weekends are just a couple of things that we owe the USSR

1971 War: How Russia sank Nixon’s gunboat diplomacy

December 20, 2011 Rakesh Krishnan Simha, specially for RIR
Exactly 40 years ago, India won a famous victory over Pakistan due to its brilliant soldiers, an unwavering political leadership, and strong diplomatic support from Moscow. Less well known is Russia’s power play that prevented a joint British-America

The Beauty of Soviet-era Buildings

December 14, 2011 TASCHEN
French photographer Frédéric Chaubin made a record of 90 weird and wonderful buildings from the last decades of the USSR.

Twenty years later after the USSR

December 9, 2011 Vladimir Babkin, specially for RIR
The Belovezh Accords, which officially dismantled the Soviet Union, were signed on Dec. 8, 1991.

Space détente

October 20, 2011
In the 1970s, the best way to show a thaw in relations between the world’s superpowers was a meeting in space.

Seven Sisters, emblems of Soviet grandeur, light up Moscow skyline

October 11, 2011 Tino Kyuntsel, RIR
Built by Stalin as emblems of victory and symbols of a new era, the seven colossal skyscrapers still stand out amid new high-rises.

“Euroasian Union” idea: Can “civilised divorce” turn into “marriage of equals”?

October 11, 2011 Sergei Markedonov, specially for RIR
This year marks the 20th anniversary since the Soviet Union’s collapse. Is it possible to create “Euroasian Union” on the basis of former Soviet republics as Vladimir Putin calls for?
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