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Georgia's tea growers work to revive an industry that collapsed with the Soviet Union
Their GreenGold Tea is one of several new companies that brought tea fields in and around Ozurgeti, Guria’s regional capital, ...
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The Rise and Fall of the USSR :10 Surprising Facts About the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union, or the USSR, was one of the most powerful and mysterious superpowers in history, with a lasting impact on ...
The Communist Politburo once ruled the Soviet Union with an iron fist. Its last member has now died
The death of Vadim Medvedev marks the quiet end of an era when Communist apparatchiks ruled the Soviet Union from behind ...
Martin Cruz Smith, Best-Selling Author of ‘Gorky Park,’ Dies at 82
He startled critics, readers and the book industry in 1981 with a novel set in the Soviet Union that had a flawed detective ...
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50 years after a historic handshake in space, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project's legacy still resonates
The first joint space mission between the United States and Russia (then the Soviet Union) docked in Earth orbit half a ...
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The Soviet Union Built a Laser Pistol for 1980s Space Battles
Ultimately, the laser pistol’s practicality was limited by its low power, the fragility of space environments, and the ...
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The Last Death Sentence: The Ukrainian Executed For Nationalism In 1989
In July 1989, a 64-year-old Ukrainian man was executed. He was the last member of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army to be put to ...
Friday essay: ‘nothing quite like it in the history of espionage’ – the Russian spies who pretended to be American
The Soviet ‘illegals’ program trained and embedded spies who lived surreptitiously in the West – just like TV’s The Americans ...
Eighty Years After the First Nuke Test, the World Is at a Dangerous Crossroads
On July 16, 1945, the Nuclear Age erupted into being, with the atomic bomb’s first test, code-named Trinity, in the desert of ...
Oriskany pilot fought seven Soviet MiGs, but mission stayed classified for 50 years
Retired Navy Capt. Royce Williams fought in one of the most incredible battles in aviation history and lived to tell the tale ...
David Brooks: America’s response to the new Cold War is weak and self-defeating. We can do better
A normal country would be strengthening friendships with all nations not named China, but the United States is burning ...
'City speedway helped break Cold War barriers'
The rousing success of a Soviet speedway team at a Norwich track helped create unity at the height of the Cold War, a ...