IN THE NEWS - 20 Years After the Soviet Union, Renewed Calls for Political Reform This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. December marks twenty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Mikhail Gorbachev was the last Soviet leader. His reform

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LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: A secret diary, a hidden history. Julia Alekseyeva discovered her great-grandmother Lola's memoir, and she turned it into her debut graphic novel. It's called Soviet Daughter. It tells the story of Lola, a barely educate

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Russia Seeks Democracy After Soviet Collapse In the two decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has made enormous economic progress. Incomes have increased 10 times. But bookending these changes are demonstrations - in 1991 against com

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Soviet Collapse Altered Ongoing World Power Balance The collapse of the Soviet Union 20 years ago changed the worlds geopolitical balance. When the Soviet Union fell, it ended the tenure of a superpower with the resources of more than a dozen countri

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Gorbachev's Foreign Policy Helps Bring Soviet Collapse December marks the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union. In this second, of a two-part series, we examine how the foreign policy of the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, cont

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Immigrants Reflect on Soviet Collapse Since the collapse of the Soviet Union 20 years ago, millions of people have emigrated from the newly created nations that once were constituent republics of the communist empire. Our correspondent spoke to sever

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Twenty years have passed since the Soviet Union ended its disastrous military venture in Afghanistan. Some Soviet veterans were traumatized by the war and refuse to talk about it, others reflect on the experience and draw lessons they say apply to N

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For Africans in Moscow, a Slow Return to Soviet Exoticism When Russian nationalist skinheads chant against the chyorni or the blacks they protest Muslim immigrants from Central Asia. But Africans in Moscow say they also can be targets. For several Af

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Europe Raises Stakes With Tour of Former Soviet States LONDON The President of the European Council Herman van Rompuy visited Georgia Wednesday - the latest stop on a tour of former Soviet states which aim to sign Association Agreements with the Euro

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Crimea Aggression by Former Soviet Ally Stuns Ukraine's WWll Veterans KYIV, UKRAINE Ukraine and Russia, former Soviet allies, are scheduled to jointly celebrate 70 years since the end of World War ll, but after Moscow's aggression in Crimea, some Ukr

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By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 03 October 2007 October 4th marks 50 years since the former Soviet Union hurled humanity's first object into Earth orbit. It was a small round device known as Sputnik -- Russian for satellite -- with four antennas and a trans

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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: At age 87, Marvin Kalb has spent a great many interesting years. He was a Moscow bureau chief and a diplomatic correspondent for CBS and for NBC. He's been the host of NBC's Meet The Press and the author of many books. And his ne

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're going to switch gears now. This is a mystery story, a spy story and a technology story all rolled into one. It started one February morning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, when Soviet submarine K-129 sank to the bottom

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Books and Arts; Book Review;The end of the Soviet Union; Walking dead; 文艺;书评;前苏联的末途;行尸走肉; The Last Man in Russia: The Struggle to Save a Dying Nation.By Oliver Bullough. 《俄罗斯最后一人:拯救行将灭亡之

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By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 04 June 2008 Russia's relations with independent countries that once formed the Soviet Union have often been contentious, and Moscow's efforts to exert influence in the region have also led to tensions with the West, particu

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By Bill Gasperini United Nations health officials say Russia and other nations of the former Soviet bloc are confronting the world's fastest-growing epidemic of HIV/AIDS. One decade ago, the countries

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By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 30 October 2007 Russian President Vladimir Putin has commemorated more than 20,000 people executed at a Moscow killing field during the height of Stalinist terror in 1937 to 1938. Mr. Putin said those who perished included th

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Gay Rights Roil Former Soviet Georgia TBILISI, GEORGIA Gay rights have spread in the West, but a backlash is taking hold in the former Soviet Union. Russias new ban on gay propaganda is sparking Western calls for boycotts of Russian products and even

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Gorbachev's Domestic Reforms Led to End of Soviet Union December marks the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union. It was the internal reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, that contributed to the demise of the Soviet Un

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By Stefan Bos Budapest 04 November 2007 Hungarians remembered Sunday those who died when troops from the Soviet Union crushed the 1956 Hungarian Revolution against Soviet domination and Communism. But as Stefan Bos reports from Budapest, this year's

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