Mikhail Zygar says the Soviet Union’s collapse was only a temporary win for democracy

Wars in Ukraine and in the Middle East are reshaping global politics. In The Dark Side of the Earth, exiled Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar traces the origins of these conflicts to the end of the ...

'The Sun started spinning faster like a wheel of fire': The 'divine visions' prophesying the fall of the USSR

In May 1917, three Portuguese children declared that they had seen an apparition of the Virgin Mary in a meadow. In 1992, a ...
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Why no one talks about what happened to Russians after collapse of Soviet Union

Imagine waking up and your country just… doesn’t exist anymore. That’s what happened to nearly 300 million people when the Soviet Union collapsed. Their flag vanished, their savings evaporated, and ...
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Former Reachout director recalls helping set up Ukrainian hotlines after USSR collapse

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. POTSDAM – Reachout’s former executive director Karen Easter didn’t just train over 4,000 volunteers to help people in crisis in St ...