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From Soviet kitchens to Cypriot bakeries

CyprusMail 17 Jan 2026
Medovik is a multi-layered honey cake closely associated with Russia and the wider post-Soviet space, where it became one of the most recognisable homemade desserts of the 20th century.
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Greater Finland: 'Leaders Barely Hid Their Aggressive Plans Against Soviet Russia' - Professor

Sputnik 16 Jan 2026
Finland repeatedly engaged in military aggression against Soviet Russia in the 20th Century , Vladimir Baryshnikov, history professor at Saint Petersburg State University and expert on 20th Century Finnish history, tells Sputnik ....
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Legendary Soviet Engines That Could Run on Almost Any Fuel

Pravda 16 Jan 2026
In an era when fuel quality rarely sparked debate and machinery only needed to perform its task, Soviet engineers focused on endurance.
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Polish historians begin work on report about Soviet-era war losses

Anadolu Agency 16 Jan 2026
A Polish historical institution has launched a new project to document losses caused by Soviet military aggression and post-World War II domination, a move that could revive debate about possible reparations from Russia, media reports Thursday.
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Russia charges 255 foreigners for destruction of Soviet memorials

China.dot.org 15 Jan 2026
15 (Xinhua) -- Russia's Investigative Committee has charged 255 foreign citizens in absentia, including three European officials, for the destruction of monuments to Soviet soldiers who liberated Europe from Nazi aggression, said a Russian official.
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Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine outlasts the Soviet fight with the Nazis – here’s what ...

The Conversation 15 Jan 2026
It has now outlasted the 1,418 days it took Vladimir Putin’s notorious predecessor, the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, to bring his war against Nazi Germany to a successful conclusion ... Soviet Union.
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How the Soviet Union got over Stalin – or thought it did

New Statesman 14 Jan 2026
Mark B Smith’s Exit Stalin tells the history of a Soviet society largely without protest, without violent repression, without dramatic events, and without sudden economic shifts ... The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991.
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Russia slammed for Holocaust distortion over ‘Genocide of the Soviet People’ Day decision

New York Post 13 Jan 2026
Israel’s Holocaust Museum has accused Russia of Holocaust distortion over its decision to establish a new annual memorial day to commemorate the NaziGenocide of the Soviet People” while omitting any mention of their Jewish victims.
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Trump team Is America’s greatest since the Soviet Union’s collapse

Citrus County Chronicle 12 Jan 2026
News that Nicolas Maduro was in U.S. custody within hours and without any American casualties did not simply change the leadership of Venezuela. It marked the end of an era in U.S. foreign policy and put into practice the new ... .
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Russia's Invasion Of Ukraine Now Longer Than Soviet War Against Hitler

Radio Free Europe 12 Jan 2026
That's one day longer than the Soviet Union spent battling Nazi Germany between 1941 and 1945, during World War II, the largest, bloodiest conflict of the 20th century.
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Sergei Fedorov's secret escape from Soviet Union helped save Red Wings

Detroit Free Press 12 Jan 2026
Here is a book except from "The Russian Five" on Fedorov's escape from the Soviet Union ... But just as they were about to leave the hotel, an elevator door opened and there stood one of Fedorov’s Soviet Red Army teammates, a tall, older man.
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How a KGB archivist defected with a treasure trove of Soviet secrets — and even ...

New York Post 10 Jan 2026
two British intelligence officers, an elderly woman with a cane, a younger man in a wheelchair and a quiet, intense figure in his 70s carrying the Soviet Union’s darkest secrets in his head.
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