Vladimir Putin has ordered Russian troops to separatist areas of Eastern Ukraine as euphemistic “peacekeepers,” with somewhere between 150,000 and 190,000 Russian troops ranged along the ...

Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees / Refuge: Revue canadienne sur les réfugiés, Vol. 26, No. 1, Sanctuary in Context (Spring 2009), pp. 161-171 (11 pages) In August 1968, the Soviet Union sent ...

Bulgarian soldiers who took part in crushing the 1968 Prague Spring democracy movement under orders from Moscow bristle at being considered aggressors. "If we were aggressors in Czechoslovakia, having ...

As Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine intensifies, Western markets hold up, but Russia’s financial system takes a beating. Meanwhile, Europe's reliance on Russia for energy complicates the West's ...

PRAGUE — Could Soviet-style communism be reconciled with the dignity and freedom of the individual? In 1968, the question was put to the test when the leader of Czechoslovakia’s Communist Party, ...

PRAGUE (AP) — Cold War documents released this week show that Soviet leaders were so worried about the 1968 Prague Spring reform movement in Czechoslovakia that they sent experienced KGB spies to help ...

A film about the contrasts between Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria in 1968 A film that reveals the mechanisms of censorship and propaganda during communism A film about ...