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Russia, Ukraine and World War I

Zelenskyy: Russia's war against Ukraine has lasted as long as Nazis' war against USSR

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has noted that Russia's war against Ukraine has now lasted as long as Nazi Germany's war against the Soviet Union (known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union), ...

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Russia's Invasion Of Ukraine Now Longer Than Soviet War Against Hitler

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US accuses Russia of 'dangerous and inexplicable escalation' of war in Ukraine

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Chart of the week: Ukraine's missile interception rate slides lower as Russian attacks plunge country into crisis

Ukraine's missile interception rate slid lower in the first two weeks of 2026, as Russia continued its months-long bombing campaign against the country's energy infrastructure.

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Russian strikes on Ukraine kill 4, knock out heat

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Russia attacks Ukraine's power grid again in freezing temperatures

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Russia fighting Ukraine longer than USSR fought Nazi Germany, Zelensky highlights in address

The full-scale war in Ukraine entered its 1,418th day on Jan. 11, matching the length of Nazi Germany's fight against the Soviet Union during World War II. Russia has "repeated almost all the worst things that happened in the 20th century,

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Exit Stalin — reforms and repression in the postwar, pre-collapse USSR

Mark Smith’s impressive history surveys life in the Soviet Union, and its advances and failures from Khrushchev to Gorbachev

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Kremlin claims USSR still exists — Ukraine responds sharply

An adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that the Soviet Union (USSR) allegedly still exists from a legal standpoint, according to Foreign Ministry spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi and Head of the Center for Countering Disinformation Andriy Kovalenko.

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How a KGB archivist defected with a treasure trove of Soviet secrets — and even his family had no clue

Vladimir Mitrokhin’s amazing story is the subject of a new book, ‘The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB.’

How the West misjudged Russia’s dissidents and helped shape Putin’s rise as Soviet Union fell

Mikhail Zygar’s latest book revisits the figures who defined the USSR’s last years and the turbulent decades that followed

Foreign Affairs

The Soviet Union and the Industrialization of Asia

THE revolution which precipitated Russia's industrialization coincided with the opening of an equally new phase in the history of the neighboring Asiatic countries: Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Sinkiang (Chinese Turkistan) and Outer Mongolia. The ...