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'The Hoff' sings to save the Berlin Wall
Mar 19, 2013 06:30 EDT
US singer and actor David Hasselhoff returned Sunday to the city where he symbolically sang for freedom in front of half a million people after the fall of the detested Berlin Wall in 1989.
'The Hoff' sings to save the Berlin Wall
Mar 17, 2013 12:50 EDT
US singer and actor David Hasselhoff returned Sunday to the city where he symbolically sang for freedom in front of half a million people after the fall of the detested Berlin Wall in 1989.
Lenin should leave Red Square: Kremlin rights chief
Mar 06, 2013 06:45 EST
Vladimir Lenin's body should be removed from Moscow's Red Square, along with the buried remains of Joseph Stalin and other Soviet officials, the chairman of the Kremlin's rights council said Wednesday.
Berlin Wall's contested removal halted, for now
Mar 04, 2013 16:43 EST
A property developer in Germany at the centre of running protests over part of the once-detested Berlin Wall being knocked down said on Monday that the dismantling had been temporarily halted.
'Don't tear down this wall', Berlin protesters say
Mar 01, 2013 12:03 EST
Detested for nearly three decades as a symbol of oppression, the Berlin Wall again sparked angry protests Friday when a crane began dismantling a segment under plans for a new housing development.
Threat to once detested Berlin Wall rouses protest
Mar 01, 2013 10:21 EST
Angry demonstrators rallied in front of the Berlin Wall's longest remaining stretch on Friday as a crane dismantled a section of the once-loathed symbol of oppression to make way for new flats.
Tarkovsky's archive Russia-bound after bidding war
Nov 28, 2012 14:21 EST
Soviet film-maker Andrei Tarkovsky's personal archives sold at auction in London for £1.5 million ($2.4 million, 1.85 million) on Wednesday, returning to Russia at the end of a fierce bidding war.
50 years since Solzhenitsyn's Gulag rocked USSR
Nov 16, 2012 11:55 EST
The Soviet Union 50 years ago allowed publication of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's landmark account of life in the Stalin prison camps "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich", shocking readers by revealing a hitherto hidden horror.
Century of press photos goes up for auction
Nov 08, 2012 13:59 EST
From snaps of Cary Grant or John Lennon, to Leonid Brezhnev whispering in Richard Nixon's ear, the International Herald Tribune newspaper puts a century of photo archives up for auction in Paris this month.
Russia TV remakes British hit with Soviet twist
Nov 04, 2012 15:09 EST
After a car crash, a tough Moscow cop is mysteriously transported back to 1979, with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev on the television, red-kerchiefed Young Pioneers still active and a far lower tolerance of police violence.
Russian election deemed unfair, protests planned
Mar 05, 2012 06:30 EST
MOSCOW (Reuters) - International monitors said on Monday Russia's presidential election was clearly skewed to favor Vladimir Putin, a verdict that could spur protesters planning to take to the streets to challenge his right to rule.
Black mark for Russian election may spur protesters
Mar 03, 2012 18:04 EST
MOSCOW (Reuters) - International monitors said on Monday Russia's presidential election was clearly skewed to favor Vladimir Putin, a verdict that could spur protesters planning to take to the streets to challenge his right to rule.
Russian election criticism may spur protesters
Mar 03, 2012 18:04 EST
MOSCOW (Reuters) - International monitors said on Monday Russia's presidential election was clearly skewed to favor Vladimir Putin, a verdict that could spur protesters planning to take to the streets to challenge his right to rule.
Russia's Putin faces protests, monitors' criticism
Mar 03, 2012 18:04 EST
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters chanting "Russia without Putin" took to the streets of Moscow and St Petersburg on Monday to challenge Vladimir Putin's victory in a presidential election which international monitors said was unfair.
Russian election criticism may spur protests
Mar 03, 2012 18:04 EST
MOSCOW (Reuters) - International monitors said Russia's presidential election was clearly skewed to favour Vladimir Putin, a verdict that could spur protesters planning to take to the streets to challenge his right to rule.
Thousands of Russians challenge Putin's election win
Mar 03, 2012 18:04 EST
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters chanting "Russia without Putin" took to the streets of Moscow on Monday to challenge Vladimir Putin's victory in a presidential election which international monitors said was unfair.
Hundreds of anti-Putin protesters detained in Russia
Mar 03, 2012 18:04 EST
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian riot police detained more than 500 protesters including opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Monday at rallies challenging the legitimacy of Vladimir Putin's victory in the presidential election.
Attempt to kill Russia's Putin foiled: security agencies
Feb 27, 2012 02:06 EST
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Security services in Russia and Ukraine said Monday they had foiled a plot to kill Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, but his opponents ridiculed the announcement as a campaign stunt six days before he runs in Russia's presidential election.
Cirque du Soleil eclipsing traditional Russia circus
Jan 20, 2012 07:25 EST
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Once as highly regarded as cosmonauts, ballerinas and nuclear scientists, Russian circus stars have wowed generations.
Russia's Putin promises change, warns of new crisis
Jan 16, 2012 10:01 EST
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Vladimir Putin said he would not plunge Russia into stagnation in a third presidential term but offered stability for what he warned would be a long and painful period of global turbulence.
Facts from the Wikipedia page:
| Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev Леонид Ильич Брежнев Леонід Ілліч Брежнєв | |
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| In office 14 October 1964 – 10 November 1982 | |
| Preceded by | Nikita Khrushchev |
| Succeeded by | Yuri Andropov |
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| In office 7 May 1960 – 15 July 1964 | |
| Preceded by | Kliment Voroshilov |
| Succeeded by | Anastas Mikoyan |
| In office 16 June 1977 – 10 November 1982 | |
| Preceded by | Nikolai Podgorny |
| Succeeded by | Yuri Andropov (1983) Vasily Kuznetsov (acting) |
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| Born | 19 December 1906 Kamenskoe, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 10 November 1982 (aged 75) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Soviet (Ukrainian) |
| Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| Spouse(s) | Viktoria Brezhnev |
| Profession | Metallurgical Engineer, Civil servant |
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