After the fall of the Berlin Wall, when Levis and other American jean brands became widely available in the USSR, many Soviets ... body,” James Sullivan notes in his book Jeans.

During the 1991 coup attempt, nationalist groups also spread conspiracy theories of a Masonic-Jewish plot to bring down the USSR from within ... As historian Andrei Zorin notes, many bored ...

The mountainous Central Asian country adopted a new anthem in 1992 after independence from the USSR but it is largely based on the Soviet-era one. Originally published on doc.afp.com, part of the ...

Kyrgyzstan is getting rid of its Soviet-inspired national anthem and has launched an unprecedented public contest to find an ...

The mountainous Central Asian country adopted a new anthem in 1992 after independence from the USSR but it is largely based on the Soviet-era one. The government says the anthem fails to ...

The mountainous Central Asian country adopted a new anthem in 1992 after independence from the USSR but it is largely based on the Soviet-era one. Get any of our free email newsletters — news ...