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Yesterday, we brought you news that Ukraine’s foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba was on a diplomatic visit to New Delhi. India, which has a long-standing trading relationship with Moscow, has remained neutral in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. While Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged the need for peace talks, India has refused to condemn Russia’s February 2022…
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Like the final Roman Emperor Romulus Augustus and Soviet predecessor Tsar Nicholas II before him, Mikhail Gorbachev oversaw the collapse of a once-great power. The eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union, who has died aged 91, did not fight his reformist corner till the dissolution of the communist state in 1991. In fact,…
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As a boy Gorbachev was bright and hard working. At 16 he was awarded the Red Banner of Labour for helping in a record harvest, and in 1950 he won a coveted place at Moscow State University to study law. Five years later, the ambitious graduate and his young wife Raisa moved back to Stavropol,…
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How sad ARE you, Vlad? Russian president Putin has expressed sympathy over the death of Mikhail Gorbachev aged 91 – despite claiming the end of the Soviet Union was ‘the greatest catastrophe’ and being accused of destroying his legacy of peace. Vladimir Putin’s spin doctors claimed that the Russian tyrant expressed ‘sympathies’ over the death of…
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Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, hospital officials in Moscow said. Gorbachev, the last Soviet president, forged arms reduction deals with the United States and partnerships with Western powers to remove the Iron Curtain…
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RUSSIA has recently commenced building of its “death trains”, a nuclear project which the country abandoned in 2005. The intercontinental ballistic missiles project is said to be dependent on some covert and complex rail lines which has been upgraded to remain untraceable from the outside world. According to a report from Sputnik.com, the warheads were…
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