Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has blown new life into Turkey’s vision of a Turkic world that stretches from Anatolia to Xinjiang in north-western China. BY ANTONI KAPCIA As academics and the media recall and reassess the Cuban missile crisis sixty years on, their focus will primarily be on the two superpowers the United States
(Reporter Tian Bing) The Central Clinical Hospital of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation announced on the evening of the 30th that Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, died at the age of 91 due to ineffective medical treatment. In 1985, he served as general secretary of the CPSU Central Committee and chairman of the Soviet Defense Committee. In 1988, he was elected chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. In 1989, he was elected chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR at the first Soviet People's Congress.
The Russian Foreign Ministry shared a video justifying the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany back in 1939 to mark its anniversary. The video makes no mention of the MRP secret protocols used to divide Europe into spheres of influence.