Leonid Brezhnev News
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Soviet spies used civilian planes to snoop on British and American military installations during the 1980s, newly released U.K. documents show.
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Russia, the world’s largest energy exporter, is becoming increasingly dependent on commodities and failing to prepare for falling oil output in 20 years, the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development said.
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Vladimir Putin, who has stirred up unprecedented protest to his more than decade-long rule in Russia, was not far from the minds of some watching the Royal Shakespeare Company’s “Julius Caesar” in Moscow.
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Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, whose 18-year rule may be overtaken by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, was a “huge plus” for the country, said Putin’s spokesman.
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Holders of Soviet bonds first sold in Communist leader Leonid Brezhnev’s final year are getting in France what they can’t get from President Vladimir Putin: money.
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Nikolai Beshkarev, chief of the basketball office of the Soviet Sport Games Department, rarely traveled abroad with the national team. He made an exception to attend a pre-Olympic tournament from June 30 to July 2, 1972, in Munich for the Soviets and three other European squads.
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China’s placement of a North Korean- educated economist and an exemplar of debt-fueled infrastructure on its ruling body may add to challenges for Communist Party leader Xi Jinping as he seeks to deepen the nation’s development.
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Russian government reticence to discuss President Vladimir Putin’s health issues is adding to investor concern about the lack of transparency in a country that’s losing $80 billion a year in capital flight.
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Igor Skibar describes his first car, a Soviet-era Lada purchased about 20 years ago, as a “nightmare.” He’s since moved on to a Volvo XC90 sport-utility vehicle, and this summer he bought a Land Rover Discovery 4 for about 2 million rubles ($62,400).
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Olga Sorokina, a child psychologist from a city near Moscow, doesn’t want to own a Lada anymore, and unlike past generations of Russians, she has plenty of options.
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