Declassified memo from US codebreaker sheds light on Ethel Rosenberg's Cold War spy case
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The Circassian genocide, Russian Empire's systematic mass murder, ethnic cleansing and expulsion of 95–97% of the Circassians, resulting in 1 to 1.5 million deaths during the Russo-Circassian War
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When the CIA messes up
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Do you speak Estonian?
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In the 1600s Sweden was a great military power – why did they decline?
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Eastern Front of WW1 animated: 1914
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How Russian-language poets and their translators have responded to the war in Ukraine
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A retrospective on the Baltic road to NATO
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University of Eastern Finland has received more funding from the Ministry of Education and Culture of Finland to continue the Karelian language revitalization project
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Scenes from a fallen empire: Abandoned Russian bases dot Mongolia’s border
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The status quo coalition
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Inside the secret world of Russia's Cold War mapmakers
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Ukrainians boost resilience and spread laughs with wartime memes
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Globetrotting Black nutritionist Flemmie P. Kittrell revolutionized early childhood education and illuminated ‘hidden hunger’
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What happened to the old Finnish flag?
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A shared celebration of Orthodox Christmas deep in the Arctic, undimmed by war and the round-the-clock polar night
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Kotka, in southeastern Finland, removed the country's last publicly displayed statue of Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin
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9/26 is Petrov Day
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Don't blame Dostoyevsky - Culture, too, is a casualty of war
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Why Taiwan is not Ukraine
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Languages at war: Ukraine and Belgium
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With Stalinist architecture, a prominent bust of Lenin and posters extolling the motherland, Pyramiden is the abandoned Soviet mining town in Norway's Arctic
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Cluster munitions: The banned weapons Russia and the US won't give up
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The rules for rulers: How dictatorships work, and why Russia is heading towards a coup
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Duolingo on Ukrainian and Russian: How do these languages differ?
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Recycled Russian warheads fuel US power plants (2013)
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Foundations of Geopolitics
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How did the USSR react to JFK's assassination?
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Germany's plans to win WW1
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Has science solved one of history’s greatest adventure mysteries?
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Inside the CIA’s audacious plot to steal a Soviet satellite
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Why does Russia have the best maps of Britain? | Map Men
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The school
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There is a button
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Being Finnish: A Guide For Soviet Spies – An archived booklet reveals how communist spooks were instructed to blend in with Finnish locals
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For eleven years, the Soviet Union had no weekends
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How Vladimir Putin's Russia has become increasingly unstable
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There may never ever be another man as powerful as Stanislav Petrov
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Soviets in Afhghanistan: The invasion that changed everything
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What happened to giant Ekranoplans?
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Finland marks 80th anniversary of brutal conflict with the Soviet Union
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Mikhail Gorbachev's Pizza Hut ad is his most bizarre legacy, and tells the story of his attempt to find—and to fund—a place in a country that wanted nothing more to do with him
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The shoals of Ukraine - Where American illusions and great-power politics collide
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In Russia, the ultimate scary story is about losing your coat
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Raoul Wallenberg is thought to have saved as many as 30,000 Jews but his descendants do not know how, when or why he died
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Andrey Fedorov – Yeltsin considered selling ceded Karelia territory to Finland in 1991
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Norway reportedly detects radioactive leakage from Soviet submarine ‘Komsomolets’ in Arctic
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The Soviet superplane that rattled America
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In 1989, the Pepsi Company cut a deal with the USSR that left it with a fleet of Russian military ships, making PepsiCo temporarily the sixth-largest Navy in the world
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Kyshtym: The nuclear disaster that was kept secret for thirty years
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