Highlights of this day in history: The U.S. battleship Maine explodes in Havana harbor, bringing America closer to war with Spain; The Soviet Union’s last troops leave Afghanistan; Astronomer Galileo and suffragist Susan B. Anthony born. (Feb. 15)
Russia has seen its population fall during much of the period since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. Its current population of 146 million is predicted to fall by 4 to 12 million by 2035. President Putin has rolled out a number of policies aimed at encouraging people to have babies. Since 2013, the IVF procedure has largely been state-funded under a compulsory health insurance scheme.
Highlights of Today in History: Soviet Union breaks WWII Leningrad siege; Robert F. Scott reaches South Pole; Boston Strangler suspect Albert de Salvo convicted. (Jan. 18)
Some in Poland accuse Soviet forces of actually contributing to the failure of the Warsaw uprising by not helping it, others portray the Soviet Union as occupiers who bore little difference to the Nazis. However, a trove of recently-declassified wartime documents point to a different scenario.
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Highlights of this day in history: Saddam Hussein executed; Chicago fire kills 600; Vladimir Lenin proclaims establishment of the Soviet Union; United Auto Workers union stage first “sit-down” strike; Musician Bo Diddley is born. (Dec. 30)
The Russian Navy held a joint naval exercise with the Syrian military near Russia’s naval facility in the eastern Mediterranean on Tuesday.
More than 2,000 Russian and Syrian troops took part in the exercises, alongside around ten missile boats, frigates and aircraft.
Russia has a Soviet-era naval base in Tartus, the only such facility outside the former Soviet Union. In 2017, Moscow struck a deal with Assad’s government to extend its lease in Tartus for 49 years. The agreement allows Russia to keep up to 11 warships there, including nuclear-powered ones.
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Forty years after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan — and three decades since the conflict ended — the war’s legacy continues to claim lives across the country. A humanitarian organisation has been working in several Afghan provinces since 1999 to clear explosives left from a war most of the country’s current, young population never lived through.
Forty years after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan — and three decades since the conflict ended — the war’s legacy continues to claim lives across the country. A humanitarian organisation has been working in several Afghan provinces since 1999 to clear explosives left from a war most of the country’s current, young population never lived through.
The US previously told the European nations that they were defending them from the Soviet Union and that they had to pay for it, Putin said from the stage of the ‘Russia Calling’ investment forum in Moscow. But the USSR collapsed almost three decades ago and the US approach ‘doesn’t work’ today.
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Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who came to the U.S. from the Soviet Union as a child, told House lawmakers that describing President Donald Trump’s July phone call with Ukraine’s president as ‘improper’ would not be tolerated in many other countries. (Nov. 19)
Highlights of this day in history: Convicted Nazi war criminal Herman Goering commits suicide behind bars; World War I spy Mata Hari executed; Nikita Khrushchev ousted as Soviet Union’s leader; ‘I Love Lucy’ premieres on TV. (Oct. 15)
Fifty thousand people lived in Pripyat, Ukraine before the Soviet Union ordered a complete evacuation following what remains the world’s worst nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station in 1986. The town stands as a stark reminder of the danger inherent in nuclear power.
VICE News visited the town to see how the site has dealt with the cleanup and to find out what the future holds for the location of the world’s worst nuclear disaster.
Highlights of this day in history: U.S. cruise missiles hit Afghanistan and Sudan after American embassies bombed in Africa; The Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia; NASA’s Voyager 2 launched; Singers Issac Hayes and Robert Plant born. (Aug. 20)
Ukraine’s comedian-turned-president Volodymyr Zelensky casts his vote during the Parliamentary elections. Zelensky’s newly-created party is expected to win the largest share of the votes in the election that should usher in a new era in the country dominated up to now by politicians who grew up when the country was part of the Soviet Union. IMAGES
Numerous World War II reenactors recreated scenes from the defence of Brest Fortress in the Belarusian city on Saturday, to mark the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow on the 78th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union. Prior to the reenactment, a commemorative ceremony took place in the Brest Hero Fortress memorial complex.
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RT’s documentary about Chernobyl’s 1986 blast released in 2008:
‘Its been exactly twenty years since Valery Legasov – one of the Soviet Union’s highly acclaimed scientists – commited suicide. He headed the scientific group involved in the clear-up of the Chernobyl blast in 1986 and threw himself into finding what caused the disaster.
However he met a lot of difficulties in his path, which – as some say – broke him.’
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Highlights of this day in history: Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy sign the ‘Pact of Steel’; Richard Nixon is the first U.S. president to visit the Soviet Union; Actor Laurence Olivier born; Johnny Carson hosts his last ‘Tonight Show.’
Thousands carry portraits of World War Two soldiers as they take part in the ‘Immortal Regiment’ march in Moscow: Russia was marking on Thursday the 74nd anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany.
Preparations for Russia’s World War II Victory Day celebrations took place on Moscow’s Red Square on Monday. The centre of Moscow was filled with a wide array of military vehicles which were driven around the square after an infantry marching rehearsal.
The Victory Parade will take place on May 9 to mark the 74th anniversary of the official capitulation of Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union.
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#NATO turns 70 this year, and there is probably no better gift to that #birthday than the ‘#Russia scare’ which is vital for the alliance to justify its existence 30 years since its arch-nemesis, the Soviet Union, ceased to exist. READ MORE: https://on.rt.com/9rho
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Highlights of this day in history: The Boston Massacre; Winston Churchill’s ‘Iron Curtain’ speech; The Soviet Union’s dictator Josef Stalin dies; Comedian John Belushi found dead; Country singer Patsy Cline killed in a plane crash. (March 5
Vladimir Putin has likened development of Russia’s cutting-edge Avangard hypersonic glider to the 1957 launch of Sputnik-1, the world’s first artificial satellite built by the Soviet Union.
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Highlights of this day in history: The U.S. battleship Maine explodes in Havana harbor, bringing America closer to war with Spain; The Soviet Union’s last troops leave Afghanistan; Astronomer Galileo and suffragist Susan B. Anthony born. (Feb. 15)
Thirty years on, former mujahideen fighters recount the days of battling the Red Army in Afghanistan after the Soviet Union invaded the country in December 1979. The Soviets left the country for good on February 15, 1989 having suffered 15,000 losses — many in the unforgiving mountain passes of Panjshir.
