MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Reports that Russia is allegedly planning to revive Soviet spheres of influence are false, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday ....
Nazarbayev, addressing a press conference later, said Russia would take the place of the USSR in the UN Security Council... “We respect Mr ... “They said it would be 10 (republics), and it’s 11 ... Kazakhstan ... USSR disbands, 11 republics forge a new world order.
Deep political changes appear to be underway in the US ... He stated that the organization was created to contain the USSR, which is why, with the end of the communist bloc, it no longer has a reason to exist ... ....
Western leaders say that Putin, if he wins in Ukraine, will one day attack Nato... “Vladimir Putin does not want to restore the USSR because it is impossible, and he himself has repeatedly said this.” ... “Apparently, Mr. Merz does not know this.” ... ....
Opponents say Putin's Russia is decaying in a potent brew of absurdity and repression that is comparable to the Leonid Brezhnev-era of the Soviet Union....
"Regarding the preparation for attacking NATO -- this is complete nonsense ... "This does not correspond to reality. Vladimir Putin does not want to restore the USSR because it is impossible. And he himself has repeatedly spoken about this," he stressed ... .
For years he lived a double life, secretly making anti-Communist paintings. He found fame in the late 1980s, once his work was shown outside the Soviet Union... .
Fabergé is believed to have produced 50 of the ornate eggs for Russia’s czars. The Winter Egg, sold on Tuesday, is considered one of the jewelry house’s greatest creations ... .
As the Kremlin’s hard-line Communist ideologist, he initially embraced his boss’s modernizing reforms before turning against them as threats to the Soviet order ... .