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The protest along the border with China on August 23 to call for freedom is a homage to actions across the Baltic states in 1989.

In contrast to some other presidents, Bush understood the difficult nuances of Gorbachev's position.

Rudenko was a trailblazer for women in sport and remembered for saving children from the besieged city of Leningrad in World War II.

Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted art to help build appreciation for Arab culture and counter pro-Israel influence on U.S. foreign policy.

Putin's neo-Soviet politics mixes authoritarianism with nationalism and anti-Americanism.

The Soviet Union's last leader gave a rare interview on the 25th anniversary of its collapse.

The "Night Wolves" leader thinks the national anthem needs a change too.

Svetlana Alexievich's powerful Soviet oral history "Secondhand Time" offers a unique window into the fall of the USSR.

Activists erected the statue near the Soviet dictator's birthplace.

The group has vowed to bring "several hundred" riders to Berlin by May 9.

The European offshoot of Lollapalooza is set to take place in the park on September 10 and 11.

"Europe may not be able to cope with another frozen conflict," the ex-president said.

Russia's Foreign Ministry called a contest for the best response.

"Stalin's face is at Arbatskaya, this is not a joke," Russians wrote on Twitter.

State historians will launch a campaign to remove hundreds of Communist statues.

According to state polls, Gorbachev is not alone in opposing the union's collapse.

The bill has been inspired by Soviet legal framework, its author said.

Putin hailed the final leader of the Soviet Union as a great statesman.

Other tributes include a mass battle reenactment and traffic wardens donning Soviet-era uniforms.

The Russian leader compared the Soviet code of ethics to the Bible.

Alexander Zakharchenko blamed "foreign ideology" for moral faults in east Ukraine.

Lenin's ideas planted an "atomic bomb" underneath Russia, Putin said.

The French-born actor's costume will not be made by Moscow due to "irregular measurements".

The renaming is in accordance with Ukraine's push to remove commemorations of Soviet and Communist-era figures

If Russia persuades the West to avoid former Soviet states as illiberal entities, the only winner will be Putin.

For all the armaments in Russia's arsenal, the country's strongest weapon remains its skewed interpretation of its past.

Former CAPO agent Uno Puusepp has been unveiled as a double agent for Russia's FSB

Tests conducted throughout the country found 55 teachers and 24 assistants were not proficient in Latvian.

"Dust" by Nadav Kander explores the ruins of former Soviet nuclear testing facilities.

The polished-smooth history of the lunar landings is in fact a tale of bumbling and bickering, full of outlandish schemes that even included nuking the moon