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The Soviet Union’s Economy: Rise and Collapse
The Soviet Union's economy was as influential as it was controversial. Discover the rise and fall of this historic system and the lessons it offers for modern economies. After we divorced ...
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Putin’s regime may be closer to a Soviet collapse than we think
Putin’s strategic victory in Ukraine was far from inevitable a fortnight ago and it is less inevitable now after the Assad regime collapsed ... bankrupted the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
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WW3 fears as US is warned: 'Prepare for Putin's land grab to re-establish Soviet Union’
Leaders in the US and Europe have been urged to prepare for conflict with Russia as a deal to end the Ukraine war 'will not ...
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Oppenheimer feared nuclear annihilation – and only a chance pause by a Soviet submariner kept it from happening in 1962
To set the stage, a cold war of hostilities between the U.S. and the communist Soviet Union began almost ... figure out what to do after that.” This newspaper map from the time of the Cuban ...
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Azerbaijani airliner with 67 people onboard crashes in Kazakhstan leaving 32 survivors
a bloc of former Soviet countries founded after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Aliyev expressed his condolences to the families of the victims in a statement on social media. "It is with deep ...
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Putin’s regime may be closer to a Soviet collapse than we think
Putin’s strategic victory in Ukraine was far from inevitable a fortnight ago and it is less inevitable now after the Assad regime collapsed like a house of ... that matches levels that bankrupted the ...
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Analysis: Al-Assad’s fall is Iran and Russia’s loss, but are there winners?
After 54 years ... the key players. Its collapse will inevitably rearrange the geopolitical map of the region. Syria established diplomatic relationship with the Soviet Union in 1944 and became ...
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Vladimir Putin suffers 'catastrophic loss' in Syria after fall of Bashar al-Assad regime
After investing significant amounts of Russian blood and treasure in propping up the Assad dynasty, Vladimir Putin stood by and watched as it all collapsed. No longer a kingmaker or puppeteer ...
Thousands without heating in Moldova’s breakaway Transnistria region, after Russian gas supplies cut
The head of Moldova’s breakaway region Transnistria has urged residents to burn firewood for heating and warned that ...
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Do You Feel That the World Is More Out of Control Than It Used to Be? There’s a Reason for That.
After the French and German governments collapsed, the nature of the regimes didn’t change. By contrast, that is often what happens when dictatorships go under—for example, the shah’s Iran in 1979, ...
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Syrian rebels have dealt a blow to Vladimir Putin’s naval ambitions
And it was the same year that the Soviet Union signed a deal with Syria to ... following the swift collapse of the Assad regime. The Kremlin appears to have avoided a panicked and disorderly ...
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The Fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad: What it Means
Together, they were close allies of the Soviet Union, and formed the anti-Western ... which the United States regards as a terrorist group. Will Syria after Assad see stability?