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CHICAGO, Nov. 16 (UPI) — “Yes, Marc, I have received the news of Vladimir Lomeiko’s untimely death,” Boris Pankin, the last Soviet foreign minister,…
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Nov. 2 (UPI) — On Nov. 17, 1989, students all over Czechoslovakia demonstrated against the Communist regime. On the afternoon of…
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SOCHI, Russia, Sept. 30 (UPI) — In Sochi, politics and corruption converge on history. Even during Soviet times Sochi was the “baksheesh capital” of…
RIGA, Latvia, Sept. 10 (UPI) — Oskars Kastens, parliamentarian and until 2008 minister for social integration, represents a generation of youngish, competent and energetic…
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Aug. 24 (UPI) — The Big Dipper accompanied me the entire way from Weinheim, Germany, to Prague — a six-hour drive…