People like Sergey Brin ... to get in,” said Kulevnich, a 38-year-old mother of one from Minsk. Many Jews did not get in, at least not to the Soviet Union’s finest schools and universities ...

And the Soviet Union had been an ally to the West during ... not knowing whether he was a suspect or a witness. Twenty people were eventually sent to trial. Nine were acquitted, including Dr.

The 28-year-old banker and 25-year-old interior designer ... “you’re writing about what it was like in the Soviet Union? People lived a lot better then.” “What!” exclaims Alexander.

To the dissidents of the Soviet Union, that question was so relevant that it became a famous and ironic toast. Supposedly introduced to dissident circles in the early 1970s by Naum Korzhavin ...

At the same time, the tournament in Moscow a few days ago was played just three decades after the dissolution of the Soviet Union ... Smirnov (now 83 years old), Samaranch traveled to Moscow ...

that was both groundbreaking and heartbreaking. On November 3rd, 1957, the Soviet Union made history by launching the first living creature into Earth’s orbit: not a human, but a dog.