Patriarch with a KGB past?
Arnold Beichman Russia may have shut down access to Soviet archives but apparently there are still places where those archives are to be found, examined and made public. One of these places is...
View ArticleReuters Today in History for March 18
LONDON (Reuters) - Here are some notable events from this date in history: 1584 - Ivan IV, first to assume the title of Tsar of Russia, died. He carried out domestic reforms and fought successful...
View ArticleStalinist purge victims' names released
MOSCOW -- Russia's leading human rights groups released a list Wednesday of more than a million of people who fell victim to Josef Stalin's purges - an attempt to draw public attention to the Soviet...
View ArticleRussia embraces exiled church to heal Soviet past
(Reuters) 14 May 2007 MOSCOW - A branch of the Russian Orthodox church whose members fled over 80 years ago to escape Bolshevik rule will rejoin the church in Moscow this week in a milestone on...
View ArticleIran's practical nationalism
By Dmitry Shlapentokh Iranians have recently demonstrated interest and appreciation of their country's past, including the 6th-century BC Achaemenid Empire. This topic has become extremely sensitive,...
View ArticleTen decades that shook the world
Ninety years after the October revolution, the revisionists may crow over the failure of communism. But it's too soon to tell. Articles November 7, 2007 8:00 PM | How the mighty are fallen: a woman...
View ArticleRussia redefines democracy
On the banks of the Moscow River, facing the Kremlin, there is a long squat grey-faced apartment block known as the House on the Embankment. It has a special place in Russia's history. It was built by...
View ArticleRussia's Putin wins the other Nobel Prize
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian president Vladimir Putin has won a Nobel prize. Russian President Vladimir Putin seen in Bucharest in this April 4, 2008 file photo. (REUTERS/Mihai Barbu) Not the...
View ArticleRussian says remains of last Tsar's son identified
YEKATERINBURG, Russia - Russia said on Wednesday that charred remains found in a pit belonged to Tsar Nicholas II's only son and his daughter, exactly 90 years after the Bolsheviks shocked the world...
View ArticleMassacre of the Russian royals: Horrific last hours of a dynasty
As the light faded, a train halted in the siding near the remote railway station of Lyubinskaya on the Trans-Siberian railway line. Gunned down: The Tsar and Tsaritsa with their five children who were...
View ArticleRussia's last tsar rehabilitated
Russia's Supreme Court has ruled that the last Tsar, Nicholas II, and his family were victims of political repression and should be rehabilitated. The rehabilitation has long been demanded by the...
View ArticleThe US democratic-capitalist model is on trial. No schadenfreude, please
This week the demands of American democracy clashed with those of American capitalism. And China's premier smiled As Meltdown Monday (September 29) follows Meltdown Monday (September 15), the mountain...
View ArticleRussian entrepreneur claims his rights for Kremlin’s royal treasures and...
Many Russian imposters have been attracted to the idea of pronouncing themselves the successors of a royal family or a dynasty to obtain all adequate privileges. The Romanovs continue to emerge here...
View ArticleNot all factions have been failures
By Patrick Laurence Faced with an internal rebellion by dissidents, the ANC has understandably sought comfort in the knowledge that previous offshoots from its ranks have withered and either died or...
View ArticleMoscow Diary: Rise of extremists?
The cry predates 1917, when faith and tsar were swept aside by the Bolshevik revolution, and the fatherland became a very different country. Yet these were the words which a 17-year-old reportedly...
View ArticleRussian oppostion wants Putin to go
Moscow - Opponents of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin from across the political spectrum were holding protests Saturday calling for the government to resign amid a growing economic crisis....
View ArticleAiling economy loosens Putin's grip on power
VLADIMIR PUTIN faces signs of a mutiny within his government that threatens to undermine his once unassailable authority in Russia. Subordinates have begun to openly defy the Russian Prime Minister,...
View ArticleBomb damages Lenin statue in St. Petersburg
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia -- A bomb has blown a large hole in one of Russia's best-known statues of Vladimir Lenin. The blast hit the towering statue in the square outside Finland Station in St....
View ArticleRecession fires worldwide May Day rallies
BERLIN Global Labor Day rallies attended by hundreds of thousands of people angered or worried by recession turned ugly in a host of affected countries Friday. The worst violence was seen in Turkey...
View ArticleChavez: Next gift for Obama authored by Lenin
The Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez says he has a new book for President Barack Obama: "What is to be Done?" by communist Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet state....
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