“Our current market is more like central planning from the Soviet Union than it is like a free market. “I’m old enough to remember the European Economic Community, when the common ...

premiered on millions of television sets in the Soviet Union on Jan. 1, 1976, Igor Rogovyi was 9 and living in Odesa, Ukraine. “This movie is from the depths of my childhood,” Rogovyi said.

However his case, which made headlines around the world, drew international attention to Soviet human rights abuses ... samizdat magazines and joined the Union for Intellectual Freedom, a ...

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By the late 1970s, the Soviet Union’s economy and global influence were weakening. With the counsel of National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Soviet expert, Carter exploited these weaknesses ...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn in West Germany following his deportation from the Soviet Union in February 1974 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons By 1973, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was already “Russia ...

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(Sergei Ilnitsky/Pool Photo via AP, File) Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, attends the Supreme Eurasian Economic Union meeting at the Igora resort in the Leningrad region, about 54 km (33,75 ...

"The overall trend is pretty grim," said Kolyandr. "I would say it's overall stagnation akin to what the Soviet Union had at the beginning of the 1980s." The Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991.