Riggleman's pin helps Brunswick wrestling escape with win over Oakdale

At the start of the wrestling season, Lane Riggleman still had 10 pounds to lose. And that was to get down to 285 pounds, which is the heaviest weight class in the state. The Brunswick High senior had ...
The Times of Israel on MSN

In an ancient oasis in Bukhara, a tiny Jewish community relies on its Muslim neighbors

Once an influential Jewish hub on Central Asia's Silk Road, urban center in Uzbekistan is now home to just several hundred ...
People’s Army Newspaper Online

Party leader calls for stronger Vietnam - Russia ties to support each other’s security, prosperity

Party General Secretary To Lam hosted a reception on December 9 for visiting Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian ...
TASS Russian News Agency

Revival of Soviet Union makes no sense — Putin

The president said that it would critically change the national and religious composition of the Russian Federation ...
insider.si.edu

Pin, Lapel, Soviet Union

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. One piece stamped brass wing lapel ...
The Nation

The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents

The often misunderstood history of the Soviet dissident movement. In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at key ...
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Mongolia, The Forgotten Soviet Satellite

Mongolia declared itself a “people’s republic” 100 years ago on November 26, 1924. But despite the name of its capital city remaining Ulan Bator (Red Hero), the country’s Soviet-linked past has been ...
The Conversation

Fall of Khrushchev: 60 years since the ‘most democratic coup’ in Soviet history, how Comrade Nikita was toppled

Tomas Sniegon does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
The Aviationist

The Soviet Union’s First Jet Bomber: The Ilyushin Il-28 ‘Beagle’

Making a flyover appearance at the 1950 Soviet May Day parade, the Il-28 went on to become one of the most prolific, reliable, and adaptable bombers in the arsenals of the Soviet Union, the Warsaw ...
The Economist

Worries of a Soviet-style collapse keep Xi Jinping up at night

IN LATE SEPTEMBER workers erected a new structure in Tiananmen Square. It is 18 metres tall, resembling a basket of fruit and flowers. Similar floral-themed displays have sprung up across Beijing in ...
The New York Times

In Georgia’s Depressed Heartland, Pining for the Soviet Past

While most Georgians support closer integration with Western Europe, many people in industrial areas that collapsed along with Communism in the 1990s express nostalgia for the old Soviet prosperity.
Game Rant

Games With Soviet-Era Aesthetics

Andrew is a science-fiction/adventure-horror writer from the UK and a graduate of Falmouth University currently working for both GameRant and DualShockers. At ...