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1 day ago · The collapse of the Soviet Union, and the breakdown of economic ties which followed led to a severe economic crisis and catastrophic fall in the standards of living in the 1990s in post-Soviet states and the former Eastern bloc. Even before Russia's financial crisis of 1998, Russia's GDP was half of what it had been in the early 1990s.
8 hours ago · Mikhail Gorbachev, the new, youngish leader, understood that the Soviet Union was on the verge of economic collapse. He asked advisers to design a route towards a market economy; one of them was ...
8 hours ago · In contrast, you will find in The Long Retreat a systematic socialist analysis, including important auto-critiques of Soviet legacies: “after the collapse of the USSR, when the world communist ...
8 hours ago · The 27 members of the European Union agreed to impose “prohibitive” tariffs on grain imports from Russia and Belarus in a bid to cut off Moscow’s funding for its war on Ukraine. Grain in ...
16 hours ago · Russia will not be invited to the 80th anniversary of D-Day landings due to the ongoing war in Ukraine and concerns among allies. Ukrainian President Zelenskiy and U.S. President Biden will attend. Russia’s presence in past ceremonies is noted, reflecting its significant WWII sacrifices. (Adds context, quote from source) PARIS, May 30 ...
8 hours ago · The origins of the North Korea problem stem from Japanese colonialism, America’s broken promise to come to Korea’s aid in 1882, and a post–World War II trusteeship that set the stage for the peninsula’s ongoing ideological rivalry. The North Korean invasion that followed, green-lit by the Soviet Union and rescued from the jaws of defeat ...
8 hours ago · This post was originally published on this site Boris Kagarlitsky and his cat. Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, almost 20,000 Russians have been detained for anti-war activities and 1000 put on trial, mainly on terrorism-related charges, according to independent human rights group OVD-info. Since the start of this …
