List of Russia articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Opposing the Opposition
As the billionaire New Jersey Nets owner steps into his new role as Kremlin-approved opposition leader, what do voters actually think?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Empty Words
When are Westerners going to learn that reform talk is cheap in the Kremlin?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 After the Fall
The 15 countries of the former Soviet Union have taken radically different political paths over the last two decades.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Three Days in Foros
In August 1991, Soviet hardliners held Mikhail Gorbachev captive at a Crimean resort in a last-ditch effort to save the crumbling Soviet empire. Anatoly Chernyaev, Gorbachev's foreign policy advisor was there when it happened. In this excerpt from the diary he kept at the time -- newly translated into English -- he tells the story of the coup attempt that destroyed the USSR.
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DANIEL JANIN/AFP/Getty Images Fading Legacy
Yelena Bonner and Andrei Sakharov were giants. Why do so few Russians remember them?
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Boris_Yeltsin_22_August_1991-1 Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong
*And why it matters today in a new age of revolution.
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Gennady Burbulis is visible in profile at far right of photo. Meltdown
For the first time, Boris Yeltsin's right-hand man tells the inside story of the coup that killed glasnost -- and changed the world.
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Ian Gavan/Getty Images The Long, Lame Afterlife of Mikhail Gorbachev
A cautionary tale about what happens when you fail to see the revolution coming.
