World Freedom Day marks the end of communism and the rise of the liberal movement. Find out why this day is of historical relevance and an extremely significant feat after World War II with the fall the Berlin Wall.
On a recent evening in Red Square, a corps of elite paratroopers dressed in camouflage performed a battle-like dance with pyrotechnics. An Egyptian performer dressed as a pharaoh rode back and forth in a chariot wielding an ankh, the ancient Egyptian symbol of life, as a band played Katyusha, a Soviet-era patriotic war song.
A detachment from the battle in Ukraine is exactly what President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia is counting on as he carries out a domestic strategy of shielding his people from hardships.