Putin has long viewed nostalgia as a powerful means of reassuring — and subduing — the public. Putin revived the Soviet anthem and restored the Red Army flag as the official banner of the military.

not a Union badge -- and a purple T-shirt with the Messi logo.” Mixed among clips of Sullivan’s skills are “bits of Messi playing for Argentina (though not Inter Miami)” over the years, and of the two ...

My father left Cuba to live in the United States in 1941, and I was born 23 years later. Sixty years after that, I got off an airplane at José Martí International Airport in Havana for the first time ...

that was both groundbreaking and heartbreaking. On November 3rd, 1957, the Soviet Union made history by launching the first living creature into Earth’s orbit: not a human, but a dog.

The Russian president celebrated his 50th birthday at a winery in Moldova. After the invasion of Ukraine, it moved the bottles he was given away from public view. By Andrew Higgins Reporting from ...

Photo: Brandon Bell/Pool via Reuters To read the American press in recent months is to encounter a feeling reminiscent of the Soviet Union in 1988. At that time, the Communist Party was in the ...