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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...
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...
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 ...