Soviet Union

Words like Stalin, Cold War, Communism and KGB reminds of The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR, also known as the Soviet Union. This higly centralized state was the former Russian Empire in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991. With a lot of power, the USSR was an empire with growth and opportunities. These pictures are a collection that shows how the situation in USSR was for... Interesing Pictures - PlanetOddityRead Full Story

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Why preparation is the key to successful development in the rapidly developing market in the 'Stans' The former Soviet republics of Central Asia - namely Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tadjikistan - have come a long way in liberalising their economies since becoming independent countries at the start of the 1990s. While for much of the twentieth century, these countries were largely closedoff to trade and commerce with the outside world during their time under central...Read Full Story

President Yeltsin passed away today - Monday, the 23rd of April, also known as Saint George's Day, 2007. He died from heart failure at the age of 76. Few people will be remembered as much as Boris Yeltsin, not only for the momentous place he held in modern history, but also for the mistakes and errors of judgement that were laid at his door. Whether it was seeing him standing on a tank outside of the Russian "White House" resisting the 1991 Soviet coup attempt, or shouting down Mikhail...Read Full Story

THURSDAY , AUGUST 27th, 2009 “It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.” - Alexandr Solzhenitsyn - ADDITIONAL INFO… Biography… Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (December 11, 1918 – August 3, 2008) was a Russian novelist, dramatist, and...Read Full Story