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Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a series of reforms and the Communist Party gave up its 70-year monopoly of political power in the Soviet Union.

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Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a series of reforms and the Communist Party gave up its 70-year monopoly of political ...

The death of Bazhanov, who founded institutions including the groundbreaking National Centre for Contemporary Art, follows ...

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Alongside the likes of Winston Churchill and Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher remains one of the most memorable British leaders ...

“We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events,” ...

Artur Pryakhin died and Alexey Zubkov was left seriously injured after both of the leading Russian military figures fell from ...

A high-ranking Russian colonel has died, and another is in a critical condition after both fell from tall windows, marking ...