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How Putin's crackdown on dissent became the hallmark of the Russian leader’s 24 years in power
Associated Press via Yahoo Canada News· 4 months agoWhen charismatic opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was gunned down on a bridge near the Kremlin in...
Under Putin, the uber-wealthy Russians known as 'oligarchs' are still rich but far less powerful
Associated Press Finance via Yahoo Finance Canada· 7 months agoWhen Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, the outside world viewed those Russians known as...
Who Corrupted a Top FBI Spyhunter?
Rolling Stone via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoIn the final days of the Cold War, a young diplomat arrived at the Soviet Consulate in San Francisco. Agents in the FBI’s San Francisco field office kept...
Gorbachev and glasnost: how his fragile legacy of free speech has been destroyed by Putin
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoMikhail Gorbachev was only Soviet leader for a little over six years, from 1985 to 1991, but they were six years that changed both his country and the world. His policies of perestroika (reconstruction ...