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Kyiv, not Kiev — How Ukrainians reclaimed their capital
For decades, if not more, English speakers the world over referred to Ukraine’s capital as Kiev, pronouncing it kee-yev. The ...
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History In Minutes: When Europe Invaded Russia
Syed Firdaus Ashraf marches through time to trace the bitter history between Russia and its West European neighbours.
Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion and Cold War symbol, dies at 88
His 1972 match against American Bobby Fischer is considered one of the most famous duels in the history of the game as well ...
Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion who lost famed Cold War-era match to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a ...
Washington now ‘largely aligns’ with Moscow’s vision, Kremlin says
Tension between the United States and Ukraine, laid bare in the Oval Office meeting of Trump and Zelensky, is seen in Moscow ...
U.S. Olympians Who Crushed Russia to Attend Big Trump Speech
A top House Republican leader is taking two hockey legends who represent America’s bygone might over Moscow to attend ...
Soviet chess champion who lost famed Cold War-era game to U.S. has died
MOSCOW (AP) — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary ...
Lech Walesa, Polish Labor Leader Who Fought U.S.S.R.’s Power, Joins in Horrified Letter to Trump
He and former Polish political prisoners voiced “horror and disgust” at President Trump’s scolding of President Volodymyr ...
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Ed Miliband’s net zero bind
Even in the post-Soviet era, it was the Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, who warned in 2012 that Russia was ...
Opinion: America and Russia are on the same side now
By doing so, the United States is condoning Russia’s subversion of the postwar Europe that America helped create and secure.