Reuters Magazine: The one percent war
January 26, 2012
| Reuters
When Anders Aslund, a Swedish economist who has studied and advised most of the leaders in the former Soviet Union, visited Kiev in late 2004, at the height of the Orange...
Georgia struggles to erase Stalin's legacy
January 19, 2012
| AFP
Twenty years after the USSR collapsed, Georgia's fervently pro-Western government regards the Soviet Union as a repressive dictatorship and has been trying to erase its legacy....
Afghan air force learns to fly _ and fix aircraft
January 18, 2012
| AP
Twenty years ago, Afghan Air Force pilot Maj. Abdul Aziz was streaking across the sky in the Soviet Union's deadliest fighter-bomber. Now 45, his new task is less dramatic or...
Witness: Picturing the sinking of the Soviet Union
December 15, 2011
| Reuters
The following story recalls the experiences of Reuters photographer Shamil Zhumatov when the leaders of the newly independent post-Soviet republics gathered in his home city of...
Soviet economic legacy haunts Russia 20 years on
December 24, 2011
| AFP
Russia has broken the shackles of state-planned economics but remains tied to oil prices and the whims of a bloated bureaucracy on the 20th anniversary of the Soviet Union's...
Lithuania mulls honoring Reagan with airport
November 09, 2011
| AP
One of the largest strategic air force bases in the former Soviet Union could soon be named in honor of Ronald Reagan. The idea to honor Reagan in Lithuania originated in the......
Stalin's daughter, famed defector, dies in US
November 28, 2011
| AFP
The only daughter of brutal Soviet tyrant Joseph Stalin -- who defected to the United States in 1967 and became a vocal critic of the Soviet Union -- has died at age 85, The New...
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