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Aug. 28 2021, 4:21 pm OP-ED

Joy Neumeyer: How Afghanistan changed a superpower

Moscow’s failed intervention led Soviets to reassess both the ends and the means of empire. Read more here.

Aug. 26 2021, 7:45 pm

RFE/RL: Soviet Moldova, then and now (Slider Gallery)

Thirty years after Moldova declared its independence from the Soviet Union, images from 2021 recapture the exact locations of archival photos taken …

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Aug. 21 2021, 12:39 pm OP-ED

Paul Goble: Khrushchev’s transfer of Crimea to Ukraine

Nikita Khrushchev transferred Crimea from the RSFSR to Ukraine not as some unique act about which he was particularly concerned but as part of a far …

Aug. 18 2021, 8:19 pm

RFE/RL: Gorbachev says lessons of failed 1991 coup still relevant today

On the 30th anniversary of a coup that failed to stop democratic reforms in the Soviet Union and expedited its collapse, the last Soviet leader, …

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Aug. 15 2021, 11:58 am OP-ED

Paul Goble: Chornobyl accident raised Ukraine’s diplomatic profile at the UN

The Chornobyl accident in 1986 changed many things for Ukraine, but one of the most important if not often mentioned is the way in which it elevated …

Aug. 15 2021, 9:36 am VIDEO

RFE/RL: Opening Ukraine’s Soviet-era KGB archives

Since Ukraine opened its Soviet-era KGB archives in 2015, the public has been able to dig into the files and uncover many dark secrets of the past. …

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June 20 2021, 10:48 am EXCLUSIVE OP-ED

Alexei Bayer: Why Russia is dabbling in terrorism

Vladimir Putin talks about fighting terrorism while Russia has been committing outrageous terrorist acts at home and abroad. Joe Biden has focused on …

Aug. 9 2007, 12:46 am EXCLUSIVE OP-ED

Ostap Kryvdyk: Ukraine’s Soviet schism narrowing

The Soviet epoch was a kind of civil war for Ukraine. It was a war waged against those who remembered. The official history was edited. People were …

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