Amid Soviet Central Asia's boogie nights, the rhythms of a region's future
A Soviet-era Central Asian pop music anthology shines a light on the region's ethnic diversity and music that transcends genres from Korean brass bands to Uyghur garage rock to Crimean jazz.
Oleg Gordievsky: the spy who helped avert a nuclear war
KGB officer’s intelligence was crucial to Margaret Thatcher’s contacts with Mikhail Gorbachev, whose rise to power helped end ...
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KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky who helped change course of Cold War dies aged 86
In the 1980s, his intelligence helped avoid a dangerous escalation of nuclear tensions between the USSR and the West.
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Mustached Bards: Revisiting Soviet Ukrainian Pop Music
Congressionally Chartered. Scholarship Driven. Fiercely Nonpartisan.
Russian court jails anti-war Soviet-era dissident for 16 years, prosecutor says
A military court in St Petersburg jailed Soviet-era dissident and anti-war activist Alexander Skobov for 16 years on Friday after convicting him of "justifying terrorism," the Prosecutor General's ...
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The SR-71 Blackbird Was Built to Outrun Soviet Air Defenses
The SR-71 Blackbirds were used in intelligence-gathering operations over the Soviet Union and Vietnam. As Washington and ...
Who else has been stuck in space? A short history of long spaceflights
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aren’t the first to run late in space, and their 9 ½-month mission falls ...
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Newly released JFK assassination files reveal more about CIA but don’t yet point to conspiracies
DALLAS (AP) — Newly released documents related to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963 gave curious readers more ...
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JFK assassination files released, sending history buffs hunting for new clues
DALLAS — More than 63,000 pages of records related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy were released ...
Any bombshells in the JFK files release? What we've learned.
So far, nothing in the documents has changed the long-held findings that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating ...
Trump releases classified JFK files on assassination. Here's what they say.
The release of as many as 80,000 pages of classified files comes after decades of smaller releases of redacted files.
Trump says his administration is set to release JFK files with no redactions
The US president told reporters that his administration will be releasing 80,000 files on Tuesday. US President Donald Trump says files related to the 1963 assassination of President John F Kennedy ...