World news about “Soviet Union” published by euronews.
Ukraine fondly recalls Thatcher’s visit Margaret Thatcher visited Kiev in 1990 when Ukraine was still part of the Soviet Union. Many experts and politicians in Eastern Europe, believe it was not… 17/04/2013
Gaming Soviet-style Before the Internet, DVDs and smartphones, there were arcade games – popular with kids in many parts of the world, including the former USSR. In Moscow… 02/04/2013
20 years after the USSR The fall of the Soviet Union resulted in huge changes – in all aspects of life. Education changed, and the education systems in the former Soviet Republics… 09/12/2011
Vandals deface Yeltsin monumentVandals defaced a monument of Russia’s first post- Soviet president Boris Yeltsin on Friday. They poured blue paint over the memorial in Yeltsin’s home town… 25/08/2012
Russia buries spy with full honoursThe most prominent mourner at the funeral of the late Soviet master-spy Gevork Vartanyan was a former spy himself, if that is he has ever given up his old… 13/01/2012
Back in the Day: Sputnik, the first satellite to orbit the EarthOn October 4, 1957, Sputnik 1 was the first artificial satellite to be put into Earth’s orbit. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the… 03/10/2011
