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An appreciation: How physicist Evgeny Velikhov helped end the US-Soviet nuclear arms race
Evgeny Velikhov's many accomplishments in reducing the threat from nuclear weapons—during and after the Cold War—are ...
3 Baltic states disconnect from the Soviet-era grid to merge with the European energy system
The flow of electricity between the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and Russia has been officially severed.
On This Day: Communists give up monopoly of Soviet politics
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a series of reforms and the Communist Party gave up its 70-year monopoly of political power in the Soviet Union.
Moldova PM says separatist region must take steps to avoid new gas crisis
Moldova's pro-European prime minister said on Thursday the ex-Soviet state's separatist Transdniestria region had to fulfil several conditions or risk being plunged into a new energy crisis with power ...
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Baltics to cut Soviet-era ties to Russian power grid
Baltic states Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are to disconnect from the Russian power grid on Saturday, a politically-charged ...
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Inside the once-thriving Soviet spa town that's now a crumbling ruin
Tskaltubo in Georgia was once one of the largest spa towns in the Soviet Union, with hundreds of thousands of people visiting ...
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Distance Between Moscow and Magnitogorsk
The map below shows the location of Magnitogorsk and Moscow. The blue line represents the straight line joining these two place. The distance shown is the straight line or the air travel distance ...
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The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents
To the dissidents of the Soviet Union, that question was so relevant that it became a famous and ironic toast. Supposedly introduced to dissident circles in the early 1970s by Naum Korzhavin ...
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Why this Soviet era off-road relic was doomed in Australia
mostly former Soviet factory managers, and a Yeltsin-friendly group of seven bankers and businessmen. That aside, Lada Australia marketing manager Mr Roger Phillips is brimming with confidence.