Soviet Union

...of the United States, has attended several state dinners since. Did the right to wear a business suit to a state dinner disappear with the Soviet Union? As officials arrived in clad tuxes to state dinners in 1959 and 1987, Nikita Khrushchev...

In this article: George H.W. Bush, Nancy Reagan, White House, Marzipan, David Kalakaua, Jacques Chirac, Gerald Ford, and Jiang Zemin

...commemorating the 20th anniversary of Berlin Wall's fall. But he is disliked by many Russians who blame him for the collapse of the Soviet Union and the years of social and economic turmoil that followed it. Gorbachev has maintained a...

In this article: Mikhail Gorbachev, Social Democratic Party of Russia, Russia, Moscow, United Russia, Union of Social Democrats, Supreme Court, and Dmitry Medvedev

...in which he advised Russian women against taking a Muslim partner. Russia has seen a religious revival after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the dominant Orthodox Church has become an important political force. Its leader,...

In this article: Islam, Moscow, Russia, Christianity, E mail, and God

...panel making these decisions should not be taken literally," says Palin. The phrase is "a lot like when President Reagan used to refer to the Soviet Union as the 'evil empire. ' He got his point across. He got people thinking and researching...

In this article: Sarah Palin, Ronald Reagan, Retarded, Down syndrome, Warsaw Pact, National Review, Republican Party, and Hillary Clinton

...it reproduced online via the "Relentless Liberal." It's a "May 10, 1988, letter from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to all Party members" that seems so perfectly designed to make a polemical point about...

In this article: Barack Hussein Obama, Afghanistan, Central Committee, Babrak Karmal, Chechnya, and U.S.

Too bad everyone else doesn't" pkhenry said, ""Lefties must make sure that opposing points of view are never heard. That is how the Soviet Union operated." To which DC Sage replied, "The views of republicans are the views of their...

In this article: Robert J. Samuelson, Medicare, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Unemployment, Sugar, and Paul Krugman

The evidence, combined with a U.S. naval blockade of Cuba, worsened a nuclear standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union. On Oct. 25, Adlai Stevenson, then U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, reportedly displayed...

In this article: Cuba, United States, Punta Gorda, Fidel Castro, John F. Kennedy, and Adlai Stevenson

To the Daily: Vincent Patsy's column takes the position that the history of the Soviet Union illustrates the flaws inherent in socialism, and that the United States is currently in danger of duplicating its failed policies (The price of...

In this article: Socialism, Communism, United States, and Russia

...that democracy is not an event but a process." The only countries in the region that are not yet truly democratic were once parts of the Soviet Union, such as Belarus in Europe and the so-called "stans" of Central Asia. Russia itself has...

In this article: Democracy, Russia, Europe, Communism, Eurasia Group, European Union, and George H.W. Bush

PTI 7 November 2009, 01:02am IST LONDON: The erstwhile Soviet Union had "hijacked" Britain's Labour Party during the Cold War and the "cosy relationship" lasted for over 30 years, a declassified diary of a Kremlin insider has revealed.

In this article: Labour Party, Margaret Thatcher, UK, Michael Foot, and Neil Kinnock