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Russia Dusts Off Ukrainian-Designed, Soviet-Era Passenger Jets As Sanctions Bite

Radio Free Europe 21 Jan 2026
Russia is putting mothballed planes back into service amid sanctions that have limited the country's ability to sustain its passenger fleet ... ....
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‘Soviet attitudes framed local culture as backward’: the record label standing up to Russian imperialism

The Guardian 21 Jan 2026
Ored Recordings documents chants, laments and displacement songs of the Caucasus threatened by erasure. After the invasion of Ukraine, its ‘punk ethnography’ has never been more urgent ... To his surprise, the officer asked ... You’re doing great.” ... ....
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The White House Archive: What Vladimir Putin Confided to George W. Bush, What He Means Now

Dissident Voice 21 Jan 2026
This is American deception ... Mr ... What were the consequences? It led to radical Islam…The Soviet Union made big mistakes in Afghanistan. They didn’t understand and tried to put a pro-Soviet, non-representative government in place, based upon minorities ... ”.
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Azerbaijan commemorates the victims of the Soviet crackdown of January 20th, 1990

AOL 20 Jan 2026
Azerbaijan observes a National Mourning Day to commemorate the 147 victims of the former Soviet troops ...
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Remembrance of Soviet massacre becomes pivotal for Azerbaijan's independence drive

AOL 20 Jan 2026
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev commemorated Black January with a visit to the Alley of Martyrs on 18 January in remembrance of massacre carried out by the Soviet Union (USSR) in 1990.
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How US power, finance, and Venezuela converge

Blitz 20 Jan 2026
To seasoned observers, the answer is hardly shocking ... Emmanuel Todd, the French intellectual who correctly foresaw the collapse of the Soviet Union and more recently diagnosed what he calls the “defeat of the West,” offers a complementary analysis ... .
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From Soviet kitchens to Cypriot bakeries

CyprusMail 17 Jan 2026
Medovik is a multi-layered honey cake closely associated with Russia and the wider post-Soviet space, where it became one of the most recognisable homemade desserts of the 20th century.
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Greater Finland: 'Leaders Barely Hid Their Aggressive Plans Against Soviet Russia' - Professor

Sputnik 16 Jan 2026
Finland repeatedly engaged in military aggression against Soviet Russia in the 20th Century , Vladimir Baryshnikov, history professor at Saint Petersburg State University and expert on 20th Century Finnish history, tells Sputnik ....
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Legendary Soviet Engines That Could Run on Almost Any Fuel

Pravda 16 Jan 2026
In an era when fuel quality rarely sparked debate and machinery only needed to perform its task, Soviet engineers focused on endurance.
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Polish historians begin work on report about Soviet-era war losses

Anadolu Agency 16 Jan 2026
A Polish historical institution has launched a new project to document losses caused by Soviet military aggression and post-World War II domination, a move that could revive debate about possible reparations from Russia, media reports Thursday.
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Russia charges 255 foreigners for destruction of Soviet memorials

China.dot.org 15 Jan 2026
15 (Xinhua) -- Russia's Investigative Committee has charged 255 foreign citizens in absentia, including three European officials, for the destruction of monuments to Soviet soldiers who liberated Europe from Nazi aggression, said a Russian official.
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Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine outlasts the Soviet fight with the Nazis – here’s what ...

The Conversation 15 Jan 2026
It has now outlasted the 1,418 days it took Vladimir Putin’s notorious predecessor, the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, to bring his war against Nazi Germany to a successful conclusion ... Soviet Union.
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