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29.10.2008, 06:24
‘We will make them fit for communism’ – that's what Bolshevik leaders thought when they created the youth organisation Komsomol 90 years ago. Back in the days of the Soviet Union, October 29 was an official holiday for its members.
21.11.2008, 16:59
Russia’s Former Vice-Premier and two times Finance Minister Boris Fedorov has died on Thursday, November 20. Doctors from London’s Wellington clinic say the cause of death of the 51-year-old was from a stroke.
29.11.2008, 09:19
How much would you pay to have dinner with the man responsible for Perestroika? The starting price is quarter of a million pounds – that is the sum British actor Hugh Grant has spent to break bread with the last leader of the USSR, Mikhail Gor
11.12.2008, 16:42
Former president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev will not be attending this year’s annual summit of Nobel Peace Prize winners in Paris on December 11-13 because of health reasons.
Published: 18 October, 2008, 10:20
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last president of the USSR, has unveiled the first five volumes of a huge new work on Soviet era politics at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
