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# USSR

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March 2024
Donnacha Ó Beacháin: Putin's sham victory — the winner fakes it all
Donnacha Ó Beacháin
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Deaglán de Bréadún: It was clear in Moscow that Gorbachev's popularity was not reflected there
Deaglán de Bréadún
Opinion: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has the Kremlin battling for hearts and minds at home
Cynthia Hooper
In Russia, men and women are turning to sex coaches to get over Soviet-era taboos
Russian man who says he was born here in 1940 has citizenship bid overturned
This map shows where women outnumber men around the world
THAT Marco van Basten volley is 27-years old today
A 74-year-old Russian man born in a house in Dublin in 1940 wants his Irish birth registered
In Photos: 25 years ago today the Berlin Wall fell
Gorbachev: We're on the brink of a 'new Cold War'
Pro-Russian rebels are using Soviet-era posters to recruit new fighters in Donetsk
Looking to invest in a Soviet-era space capsule? Yours for a cool €1.4 million
Transnistria, the unofficial country that missed the collapse of the Soviet Union
What has the G8 ever done for us?
Garret Fitzgerald 'not taken in' by Russians during 1976 trade mission
You had it last... Original document which detailed breakup of USSR missing
Video: Nukes must be eradicated but US ignoring the issue: Gorbachev
49 days to Euro 2012: Van Basten volleys the Netherlands to glory