Tag: Soviet Union
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Mikhail Gorbachev, Nigeria, and hard choices – By Dakuku Peterside
A significant chapter of global history was closed on 30th August 2022. On that day, an equally substantive champion of reforms passed and bequeathed us a mixed assessment of his contribution to the new world order. Mikhail Gorbachev is that man. He was not alone in this powerful club. His best-known contemporaries were Ronald Regan…
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NATO looking for external enemy to justify its existence: Putin
President Vladimir Putin of Russia has said that the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) has been constantly looking for an external enemy to justify its existence, the RIA Novosti news agency reported Wednesday. Putin told American director Oliver Stone in an interview that the Eastern Bloc does not exist anymore, neither does the Soviet Union,…