“You’re next,” said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union’s collapse in late 1991. I was an American student in St. Petersburg, and he was referring to the ...

It was especially the colour palette of terracotta, wormwood, dusted greens, turquoise, and lemon yellow that attracted her to the 80s film, set in Soviet-era Moscow. ‘Maybe I’m a romantic, but that ...

Putin has made significant progress in his quest to reverse the collapse of the Soviet Union, which he called “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century”. Trump is aiding and ...