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4 days ago · The 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, also known as the August Coup, [b] was a failed attempt by hardliners of the Soviet Union 's Communist Party to forcibly seize control of the country from Mikhail Gorbachev, who was Soviet President and General Secretary of the Communist Party at the time.
- 19-22 August 1991(4 days); 32 years ago
- Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
5 days ago · Stalin’s Agent is a biography of one of Stalin’s illegals who was known by the alias of Alexander Orlov (1895–1973). Orlov entered the history of Soviet espionage primarily due to three reasons: First, he was credited with presiding over the shipment of 500 tons of Spainish gold reserve to Moscow in 1936, thus effectively stripping the country of her assets in exchange for limited ...
2 days ago · A Russia-installed official in Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhzhia region claimed shelling by Ukraine’s military had killed six people, including a child, in the town of Tokmak. Vladimir Rogov ...
5 days ago · He says that Ukraine managed to resist defeat when Russia first invaded in February 2022 because they had already been given crucial Western support, including anti-tank missiles from the US and UK. But now, he says, there is a shortage of shells and air defences, a point echoed by Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky in recent addresses to ...
3 days ago · The modern history of Russia began with the Russian Republic of the Soviet Union gaining more political and economical autonomy amidst the imminent dissolution of the USSR during 1988–1991, proclaiming its sovereignty inside the Union in June 1990, and electing its first President Boris Yeltsin a year later. The Russian SFSR (Soviet ...
4 days ago · Medieval Russian states around 1470, including Novgorod, Tver, Pskov, Ryazan, Rostov and Moscow. The history of Russia begins with the histories of the East Slavs. [1] [2] The traditional start date of specifically Russian history is the establishment of the Rus' state in the north in 862, ruled by Varangians.
5 days ago · A Russian Yars intercontinental ballistic missile system drives during a military parade on Victory Day, which marks the 78th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in Red ...
