Soviet Union

NATO warships are moored, during Baltic MCM Squadex 22 exercise, in Riga port, Latvia March 16, 2022. Picture taken March 16, 2022. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins
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Russia may not stop with Ukraine – NATO looks to its weakest link

Crucial for the Baltics is the land link between Kaliningrad and Belarus. Called the Suwalki Gap, its seizure would cut the Baltic states off

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attends a meeting with Vladislav Deinego, head of the Foreign Ministry of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic, and Sergei Peresada, deputy head of the Foreign Ministry of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, in Moscow, Russia February 25, 2022. Russian Foreign Ministry/Handout via REUTERS
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Russia says post-1991 'illusions' about the West are over

Comeback kid? Photographer: Heritage Images/Hulton Archive
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Thirty years gone, the Soviet Union is not quite dead

Is Putin genuinely intent on attacking Ukraine? Photo: Reuters
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Putin rues Soviet collapse as demise of 'historical Russia'

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What happened to the earlier superpowers?

Photo: Twitter.
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Lev ‘the Black Spider’ Yashin: Only goalkeeper to win Ballon d’Or

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), via a video link at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia December 2, 2020. Sputnik/Aleksey Nikolskyi/Kremlin via REUTERS
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Putin says US threats smack of Soviet Union's fatal mistakes

National flags of Russia and the US fly at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia April 11, 2017. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
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Russia accuses US of downplaying Soviet role in WWII