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Pitt and Pittsburgh Filmmakers to Host 18th Annual Russian Film Symposium (University of Pittsburgh)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Apr 2016
While remakes and sequels have long been a staple of filmmaking in the United States and Western Europe, they were rare during the years of the Soviet Union ... The Forty First (1956), a groundbreaking Soviet exploration of sentiment and sexuality ... Vocal Parallels (2005), a film 'tapestry' finely woven from the preserved threads of the Soviet empire....

Chernobyl and the ghosts of a nuclear past

Edit New Statesman 16 Apr 2016
A dominant one is the extent to which the culture of the Soviet Union was shaped by war ... The Soviet cult of workers of prodigious strength and endurance, rewarded with certificates and diplomas for assiduously serving the collective, generated a frenzy of selflessness ... Over the next few years, for those cast adrift by the wreck of the Soviet empire, the “exclusion zone” around Chernobyl became, bizarrely, a refuge....

Poland – from the first EBRD investment to a model of transition (EBRD - European Bank for Reconstruction and Development)

Edit Public Technologies 15 Apr 2016
(Source. EBRD - European Bank for Reconstruction and Development). The EBRD at 25. the Bank played a role in the country's success, and continues doing so ... Wałęsa's labour movement not only brought down communism in Poland but also played an essential role in the collapse of the entire Soviet empire. 'Shock therapy' (or Starting Over). Post-communist countries chose many different paths as they worked to become market economies ... (noodl....

U.S. Leadership Amiss in Resolving the Armenia-Azerbaijan Clash over Nagorno-Karabakh

Edit Huffington Post 13 Apr 2016
The territory was populated by Christian Armenians and Shia Turks (Azeris); the Persian and the Russian Empires ruled it for centuries. After the fall of the Romanovs in 1917, the Bolsheviks under Joseph Stalin's leadership, made this mostly ethnically Armenian area an Autonomous Region of Soviet Azerbaijan ... Tensions between the Armenians and Azerbaijanis were largely contained under the Soviet empire, but exploded in 1988....

The Morning Vertical, April 13, 2016

Edit Radio Free Europe 13 Apr 2016
"In many ways, Russian corruption is the new Soviet Communism ... "One of the saddest ironies of this year’s commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union is that Hungary and Poland, always the most restless of the Soviet empire’s captured nations, are now led by men mimicking Russian President Vladimir Putin’s governing style," Khrushcheva writes....

U.S.' Leadership Amiss in Resolving the Armenia-Azerbaijan Clash over Nagorno-Karabakh

Edit Huffington Post 12 Apr 2016
The territory was populated by Christian Armenians and Shia Turks (Azeris); the Persian and the Russian Empires ruled it for centuries. After the fall of the Romanovs in 1917, the Bolsheviks under Joseph Stalin's leadership, made this mostly ethnically Armenian area an Autonomous Region of Soviet Azerbaijan ... Tensions between the Armenians and Azerbaijanis were largely contained under the Soviet empire, but exploded in 1988....

Chicago International Film Festival lineup announced

Edit Chicago Sun-Times 07 Apr 2016
Anna, a sprinter training for the Olympics, is pressured by the Soviet system to take anabolic steroids to giver her a competitive edge ... A stirring Russia-set thriller, White Nights stars famed actor-dancers Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines as unlikely allies pitted against a nefarious Soviet empire....

Recent editorials from Texas newspapers

Edit Austin American Statesman 05 Apr 2016
The Dallas Morning News. March 31, 2016. Wacky worldviews and partisans who stand by them ... If you've heard her name, it probably was attached to her ridiculous assertion that President Obama once supported a drug habit by working as a gay male prostitute ... Oh, it gets better ... ___ ... Gov ... ___ ... U.S.-Cuban tensions grew from Fidel Castro's capture of the island in 1959 and subsequent alignment with the Soviet Empire. That empire dissolved in 1990 ... ....

Azerbaijan and Armenia clashes continue for third day

Edit The Guardian 04 Apr 2016
Following the Bolshevik revolution in Russia towards the end of the first world war, Moscow’s new rulers established the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, with an ethnic Armenian majority, within the Soviet Socialist Republic of Azerbaijan. When the Soviet empire began to implode in the late 1980s, the mostly Christian Armenians fought to break the grip of the mostly Muslim Turkic Azeris ... Nagorno-Karabakh map ... Related ... ....

From the Observer archive: this week in 1952

Edit The Observer 03 Apr 2016
“It would, I think, be a great loss to Europe if these peoples were to be submerged in the dull uniformity of the Soviet Empire.” ... If it were, it would mean a settlement which fixed the borders of the Atlantic Community on the Rhine and ratified the absorption of everything east of the Oder and Neisse in the Russian Empire....

Nazis, Ataturk and Islam

Edit Dawn 03 Apr 2016
Because millions of Muslims lived in the British, French and Russian (later Soviet) empires, and hundreds of thousands of the faithful were a vital part of the colonial armies, German propaganda in both the wars sought to win Muslims over and present Kaiser’s Germany and the Third Reich as defenders of the Islamic faith....

Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict is a reminder of Europe's instability

Edit The Guardian 03 Apr 2016
Related ... Twitter ... Following the Bolshevik revolution in Russia towards the end of the first world war, Moscow’s new rulers established the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, with an ethnic Armenian majority, within the Soviet Socialist Republic of Azerbaijan. When the Soviet empire began to implode in the late 1980s, fighting erupted, with the mostly Christian Armenians striving to break the grip of the mostly Muslim Turkic Azeris ... ....

The Soviet Adventures Of Steve Jobs

Edit Radio Free Europe 01 Apr 2016
Embassy in Moscow sat down with two representatives of the California computer company Apple who were visiting the heart of the Soviet empire ... The visitors, Merin says, told him of their plan to open a manufacturing facility in the Soviet Union to produce Apple computers ... Merin’s encounter with Jobs came during the tech virtuoso’s first and only visit to the Soviet Union....
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