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Soviet Dissident, Historian, Author of Books on Putin Dies at 100

Pravda 14 Feb 2026
Famous Russian historian and publicist Roy Medvedev has died at the age of 100 ... ....
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Scientists may have spotted the long-lost Soviet Union Lander - 60 YEARS after it vanished ...

The Daily Mail 13 Feb 2026
Scientists may have spotted a long-lost Soviet Union Lander, over 60 years after it vanished on the surface of the moon ....
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The European Union now resembles the Soviet Union

Sott 13 Feb 2026
The implication is, of course, that the EU is starting to resemble the Soviet Union ... The Soviet Roots of European Integration In early 2025, US Vice President J.D.
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“You are causing more harm than even the Ottomans and Soviets could”

Agos 13 Feb 2026
“The Armenian government’s approach, even if not intentional, risks severing its relationship with the diaspora; something that even the Ottoman Empire or the Soviet Union failed to achieve.”.
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Dr. Ellis and wife, Elizabeth get a taste of Soviet life in 1955

Post Bulletin 13 Feb 2026
Elizabeth Ellis of Rochester found her 1955 two-week stay in the Soviet Union to be “a wonderful educational experience.” ... Henry Ellis, a Mayo Clinic physician, who was touring medical facilities in the Soviet Union.
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Soviet lunar lander lost for 60 years might have been spotted with AI’s help

Interesting Engineering 13 Feb 2026
In 1966, the Soviet Union’s Luna 9 made history as the first spacecraft to achieve a soft landing on the Moon. .
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Meet Ilia Malinin's parents: How ex-Soviet figure skaters raised USA's breakout Olympic star

Sportingnews 13 Feb 2026
Figure skating is in Malinin's family history ... Both Malinina and Skorniakov skated professionally for the Soviet Union, then skated for Uzbekistan after the USSR fell ... Malinin's parents are both from Russia, when it was previously the Soviet Union ... .
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Coproduction Office boards Sergei Loznitsa’s Soviet Union doc ’Imperium’

Screen Daily 12 Feb 2026
The Ukrainian filmmaker is using archival footage shot between 1970 and 1973 by Italian filmmakers to create a visual journey through the Soviet Union ... The film is produced by Philippe Bober for Coproduction Office’s label Essential Filmproduktion ... .
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Lost Soviet Moon Lander May Have Been Found

Slashdot 10 Feb 2026
An anonymous reader shares a report. In 1966, a beach-ball-size robot bounced across the moon ... This was Luna 9, the Soviet lander that was the earliest spacecraft to safely touchdown on the moon ... That may soon change ... But there's a catch ... 31, 1966 ... .
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Lost Soviet Luna 9 Moon Lander May Have Been Found

New York Times 10 Feb 2026
Two research teams have identified possible landing sites for Luna 9, the first human-made object to safely reach the lunar surface. “One of them is wrong,” an expert said ... .
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Soviet and U.S.-Led Wars in Afghanistan Not Fought for Islam, Pakistan Defense Minister Says

Khaama Press 10 Feb 2026
Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Asif told parliament on Monday that Soviet forces were invited by Afghanistan’s government, arguing the term occupation reflected a narrative shaped largely by the United States.
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Newly Unbound, Trump Weighs More Nuclear Arms and Underground Tests

New York Times 10 Feb 2026
It remains to be seen whether the three big nuclear powers are headed into a new arms race, or whether President Trump is trying to spur negotiations on a new accord now that a last Cold War treaty has expired ... .
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Astronomers close in on long-lost Soviet lunar lander

Popular Science 09 Feb 2026
However, researchers may now be closer than ever to finding the Soviet Union’s Luna 9 spacecraft ... After the mission’s conclusion, the Soviets published their estimated landing coordinates in the newspaper, Pravda.
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A long-lost Soviet spacecraft: AI could finally solve the mystery of Luna 9's landing site

Phys Dot Org 09 Feb 2026
Using an advanced machine-learning algorithm, researchers in the UK and Japan have identified several promising candidate locations for the long-lost landing site of the Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft ... A long-lost Soviet spacecraft.
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Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization – Accessible history of a new society

The Irish Times 09 Feb 2026
The Soviet Union as a Civilisation ... This accessible and comprehensive book by Cambridge academic Mark B Smith is the latest in a long list of histories of the Soviet Union ... Soviet civilisation was falling behind ... But just a simple Soviet man.”.
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