Russian State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin said that after the collapse of the USSR in 1991, the Crimean peninsula was actually peacefully annexed by Ukraine and remained in this position until 2014. At a meeting with the French delegation, which is going to visit the annexed by Russia in the past ...
Lithuania will ask Taiwanese representatives to provide an explanation for the Soviet anthem played during the gold medal ceremony for the Lithuanian men's basketball team at the World Deaf Basketball Championship in Taiwan. “We are obliged to react and we will react...
It all started with a red and black ribbon, which was made a symbol of pride in the USSR's victory over Nazi Germany. Self-satisfied stickers on cars proclaimed: “Thank you grandfather for the victory” or “On to Berlin!” That same year, expressions of patriotism in Russia became more militant. "Some car enthusiasts...
On Tuesday, senior Lithuanian officials called the decision of Russian prosecutors to investigate the legality of recognizing the independence of the Baltic countries as a provocation. “Our independence was won with the blood of the people of Lithuania. And no one can encroach on her. Only we ourselves decide our fate,” said President Dalia...
US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter has pledged that Washington will oppose Moscow's attempts to restore the Soviet sphere of influence. As reported by the Associated Press, he stated this at the Berlin research center Atlantik Brucke, which deals with issues of German-American relations. “We don't want cold and ...
US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said that Russia is trying to restore the zones of foreign policy influence, as it was in Soviet times. The US and its allies will not let the Kremlin throw them back into the past, the minister added. Speaking in Berlin, Carter said that the allies in ...
Maya Plisetskaya, a former absolute prima ballerina (prima ballerina assoluta) of the Bolshoi Theater, passed away on Saturday at the age of 89. She first appeared from behind the Iron Curtain and entered the Western scene in 1959, and with her magnificence she hit New York then in a double ...
German President Joachim Gauck said he pays tribute and gratitude to Soviet soldiers who liberated Europe and Germany itself from Nazism 70 years ago. But at the same time he noted that later the liberators became occupiers, suppressing democracy. The head of state said this ...
The Russian national ice hockey team spent the first period of the Eurotour match with the Finnish team in red retrosweaters with the USSR inscription on the chest. The initiative came from the Finnish side and was timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Hakametsa arena in Tampere, where the game was held. During break…
Without the elimination of the obsessive legacy of communism - in propaganda, symbolism and place names - it is impossible to get away from the Soviet-imperial stereotypes. However, I would still like to note that the method of brutal destruction of monuments and ideological prohibitions is unlikely to become effective. Is it possible to simply "erase" from memory ...