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Russia aims to reclaim Soviet space glory with 2036 launch of ambitious Venus mission

Russia plans to launch the Venera-D mission to Venus in 2036, continuing the Soviet Union's legacy of exploring there in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

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Front lines of humor: Dark humor voices Ukrainians’ hopes for victory

In 1991, a simple line appeared in Broom, a Lithuanian satire and humor journal. “A shortest joke: Communism,” it said. A one-liner to celebrate the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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U.S. wins men's hockey gold in the final medal event of the Winter Olympics, in photos

Jack Hughes scored in overtime and the U.S. defeated Canada 2-1 in the gold medal final at the Milan Cortina Olympics on Sunday to earn the nation’s third men’s title at the Games and its first since the “Miracle on Ice” in 1980 — 46 years to the day of…

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The first world leader to activate the ‘nuclear briefcase’: How a Norwegian research rocket nearly triggered nuclear war

A routine scientific rocket launch from Norway in January 1995 triggered one of the most serious nuclear alerts of the post Cold War era, as reported by the BBC. For several tense minutes, Russian military systems identified the object as a possible incoming missile. The alert reached the highest level…

The Times of India

An epic border: Finland’s poetic masterpiece, the Kalevala, has roots in 2 cultures and 2 countries

At the outset of the Kalevala, Finland’s national epic, a singer bemoans his separation from a beloved friend who grew up beside him. Today, the friends rarely meet “näillä raukoilla rajoilla, poloisilla Pohjan mailla” – lines which translator Keith Bosley renders “on these poor borders, the luckless lands of the…

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Long Before Astronauts, These Animals Took the Ultimate Space Risk

When we think of space exploration names like Yuri Gagarin and Neil Armstrong dominate the narrative. But long before humans ever strapped themselves into rockets animals were sent into space as living test subjects. Their missions were risky, one way and driven by a simple question scientists could not answer…

Times Pets

What is Nato – explained in 30 seconds

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization began in 1949 as a bulwark against the Soviet Union, but has expanded in size in the decades since

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American farmers, who once fed the world, face a volatile global market with diminishing federal backing

President Donald Trump appears to have upended an 85-year relationship between American farmers and the United States’ global exercise of power. But that link has been fraying since the end of the Cold War, and Trump’s moves are just another big step.

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Aldrich Ames obituary

CIA officer who betrayed western intelligence assets and espionage operations to the Soviet Union and Russia

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CIA spy who sold US secrets to Russia dies in prison aged 84

Aldrich Ames confessed to being paid over $2.5 million from Moscow for CIA secrets

The Independent UK

‘After almost destroying the world, our families are friends’: the thrilling podcast from JFK and Khrushchev’s relatives

Their relatives might have been on opposite sides of near-nuclear war, but the US and Soviet leader’s descendants have teamed up for an intimate BBC podcast. They talk humanity, hate – and why Trump is a ‘very limited’ man

The Guardian - UK

What Would Bill Buckley Do?

The National Review founder's flexible approach to politics defined conservatism as we know it.

Reason

No Excuses for Zohran Mamdani and Radical Socialism

The new mayor's buddy, Hasan Piker, wishes the Soviet Union had won the Cold War.

Reason

How spacefaring nations could avoid conflict on the Moon

In the 1960s, Frank Sinatra’s song Fly Me to the Moon became closely associated with the Apollo missions. The optimistic track was recorded in 1964, when US success against the Soviet Union in the Moon race was not assured.

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Why Ukraine should avoid copying Finland’s 1944 path to peace with Moscow

The Finnish president, Alexander Stubb, recently drew parallels between his country’s experience from its conflicts with the Soviet Union during the second world war and Ukraine’s current struggle against Russian aggression. The analogy has gained considerable traction.

Euronews

Volodymyr Zelenskyy marks National Flag Day as Russia continues to target Ukrainian cities

Ukrainian flags were raised above government buildings nationwide to mark National Flag Day, commemorating the push for independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.

The Guardian - US

Trump needs to understand what the war in Ukraine is really about

It’s not about Nato or the Soviet Union. It’s about democracy.

International Business Times

Trump Turns History On Head With Putin Invitation To Key US Base

Donald Trump is turning history on its head with his Alaska summit with Vladimir Putin -- inviting Russia's leader to land that once belonged to Moscow, and meeting him at a military base that monitored the Soviet Union.

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Animal Farm at 80: why the animals really matter in Orwell’s parable about communism

George Orwell’s Animal Farm (1945) turns 80 on August 17 2025. If there’s one thing every student of history or politics knows, it’s that the novella is not really about animals. Sure, the principal characters are pigs and horses. But really, so we are told, it is about the Soviet…

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Russia’s decision to pull out of nuclear treaty makes the world more dangerous

Russia has announced it will no longer uphold its obligations under the intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) treaty, signed by the Soviet Union and the United States in December 1987. The decision has raised questions about the future of nuclear deterrence and the danger of global nuclear proliferation.

The Independent UK

With only one nuclear arms pact left between the US and Russia, a new arms race is possible

For decades, the threat of nuclear conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union hung over humanity

Euronews

Putin threatens Ukraine and Europe with hypersonic missile deployment in Belarus

Russia first used the Oreshnik against Ukraine in November, when it fired the experimental weapon at a factory in Dnipro that built missiles when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union.

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The treaty meant to control nuclear risks is under strain 80 years after the US bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Eighty years ago – on Aug. 6 and 9, 1945 – the U.S. military dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, thrusting humanity into a terrifying new age. In mere moments, tens of thousands of people perished in deaths whose descriptions often defy comprehension.

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The Soviet Union had its own Sherlock Holmes? Yes, and episodes are streaming free online right now

Watch Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson on YouTube right now to see what Holmes aficionados consider one of the better adaptations of Doyle’s iconic detective.

The Guardian - UK

‘My parents got me out of Soviet Russia at the right time. Should my family now leave the US?’

When he left the Soviet Union for a new life in America, the novelist never imagined he would live under another authoritarian regime. Then Trump got back into power ... Is it time to move again?

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