Russia puts Estonia Prime Minister on wanted list for destroying Soviet monuments
Moscow, Russia/Vilnius, Estonia Reuters Russian police have put Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, Lithuania’s culture minister, and members of the previous Latvian parliament on a wanted list for destroying Soviet-era monuments, according to the Russian interior ministry’s database. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Kallas was wanted for the “desecration of historical memory”. Estonia’s Prime Minister […]
Ukraine presses ahead with removal of Soviet monuments
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Ukrainian officials pressed on with a campaign to remove Soviet-era monuments on Saturday as authorities in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv dismantled a statue of a Red Army commander from a central boulevard. Ukraine has doubled down on efforts to erase all traces of Russian rule amid a full-scale invasion by Kremlin troops, now […]
“Let us be a lesson”: Kazakhs wary of return to nuclear testing
MARIYA GORDEYEVA, of Reuters, reports from Kazakhstan as it continues to grapple with the legacy of nuclear weapons tests conducted between 1949 and 1989…
Essay: Nagorno-Karabakh – longest war in post-Soviet space flares yet again as Russia distracted in Ukraine
In an article first published on The Conversation, STEFAN WOLFF, professor of international security at the University of Birmingham, looks at the background to the latest upsurge in violence…
Essay: Almost half of Moon missions fail. Why is space still so hard?
In an article first published on The Conversation, GAIL ILES looks at the challenges of Moon landings…
India readies Moon mission aimed to stake claim as a space power
Bengalaru, IndiaReuters India’s space agency is readying to launch a rocket as soon as Friday that will attempt to land a rover on the Moon and mark the country’s arrival as a power in space exploration and the new frontier of space commerce. Only the United States, the former Soviet Union and China have made […]
Essay: Mikhail Gorbachev’s tragic legacy in the Russian Orthodox Church
In an article first published on Religion News Service, JOHN P BURGESS, James Henry Snowden Professor of Systematic Theology at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, says Mikhail Gorbachev ended 70 years of repression of the Russian Orthodox Church but also opened the way for other faith groups…
Thousands of Russians bid farewell to last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev “the peacemaker'”
Moscow, RussiaReuters Thousands of Russians filed past the open casket of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, on Saturday with many saying they wanted to honour his memory as “a peacemaker” who dismantled totalitarianism and gave them their freedom. Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union from 1985-1991, died on Tuesday aged 91. […]
Russia to bury Gorbachev, darling of the West, with a shrug
Reuters Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader beloved of the West who lived long enough to see all the reforms he had championed in his homeland undone, will be buried on Saturday without state honours or the presence of the current Kremlin incumbent. Gorbachev became a hero in the West for allowing eastern Europe to shake […]
Essay: Mikhail Gorbachev – five things you need to know
In an article first published on The Conversation, JONATHAN DAVIS – associate professor in modern European history at Anglia Ruskin University, looks at five facts about the life of Mikhail Gorbachev…