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Vasili Mitrokhin defected in 1992 after spending years copying top-secret documents on Soviet spies and operations
One of the most consequential Russian defectors in history was turned away several ti…
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Amid geopolitical storms and the rise of populism, the ‘Nordic-Baltic eight’ is gaining clout as a bulwark of western resolve
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Tskaltubo enjoyed years of prosperity as a jewel of Soviet architecture. But after the collapse of the USSR in December 1991 the sanatoriums were abandoned, and in 1992 people fleeing the war in Abkh…
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Nikolay Bakharev was born at a time when ‘almost any image of a naked body was considered pornography’. Yet his photographs of families, couples and friends at the beach capture a quiet tenderness
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In the post-Soviet states, statues can be removed and street names changed. But achieving sovereignty of memory is far harder
We often hear that it is Russia’s inability or unwillingness to deal with …