ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — As a wildly popular television journalist when the Soviet Union was falling apart, Aleksandr G. Nevzorov took up a gun in January 1991 and joined the Soviet special forces on a violent but fruitless mission to stop Lithuania from breaking away.
New York Times: A onetime star of Soviet TV warns of the ‘plague’ of nationalism
A pigeon flies over the Soviet-era star symbol in the All-Russia Exhibition Centre (VDNKh), a trade show and amusement park in Moscow on April 5, 2019.