Tag: KGB
War Protest: Statues Fall as Europe Purges Soviet Monuments
WARSAW, Poland — In the Latvian capital of Riga, an obelisk that soared high above a...
Moscow Marks 30th Anniversary of Last Ditch Attempt by Communist Hardliners to Save the Soviet Union
Shortly after midnight on 19 August 1991, Soviet vice president Gennady Yanayev signed off on the creation of the ‘State Committee for the State...
Belarusian President Vows to Confront Merkel After Uncovering Terrorist Sleeper Cells
Europe16:52 GMT 02.07.2021(updated 17:14 GMT 02.07.2021) Germany has helped lead the charge in a European Union-wide effort to pressure Belarus via sanctions...
Soviet Atom Bomb Engineers Were Banned From Driving, Declassified Document Reveals
Russia05:35 09.11.2019(updated 05:37 09.11.2019)The document is a part of a bundle of declassified papers released by Russia’s atomic energy agency in the wake...
