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In Vilnius, 35 years ago, the beginning of the end of the USSR

The assault on the television centre in January 1991 definitively ruined the plans for perestroika, also giving Gorbachev the ...
The Baltic Times

Lithuanian 1991 Soviet crackdown victim's son regrets lack of Gorbachev case

VILNIUS – Robertas Povilaitis, the son of a man killed during the Soviet crackdown in Lithuania in January 1991, said on Tuesday he regretted that prosecutors never opened a criminal case against ...

David Bowie was a secret Tory

Terrible news to hear Brixton born David Bowie had died. No one in our age has better deserved to be called a genius”. That’s ...
The New Yorker

The Bloody Lesson the Ayatollah Took from the Shah

With demonstrations in dozens of cities across Iran, Ali Khamenei and his regime are faced with a dilemma.