A most extraordinary obituary of Mikhail Gorbachev
The last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev (91) has died with a surprising obituary coming from the FW de Klerk Foundation’s chairman Dave Steward.
The last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev (91) has died with a surprising obituary coming from the FW de Klerk Foundation’s chairman Dave Steward.
As Russia and Ukraine prepare for what could be the biggest tank battle in Europe since World War II, the future of Vladimir Putin’s war remains impossible to predict.
Robert Service, a leading historian of Russia, says Moscow will win the war but will lose the peace and fail to subjugate Ukraine.
At the screening of a film about Soviet horror, thugs arrive to intimidate free-thinking Russians, writes James Freeman of The Wall Street Journal.
Much has been said about the demise of the Soviet Union, the socialist behemoth on the world stage that stood in opposition to capitalist America in the Cold War from 1945 until 1989.
Sara Gon writes about the history of communism and wants to know how the South African Communist Party is going to transform the country to prosperity with their policies.
There seems to be a dogged, blinkered, almost insane insistence by the ANC on sticking to a century-old socialist land policy.
With such complex local and global vector forces at play, who can lay claim to being solely responsible for the liberation of South Africa from apartheid? Was it the ANC?
The data shows rather forcefully that the ANC’s strategy of tampering with State Owned Enterprises and social engineering is having the wrong end result in South Africa.
President Vladimir Putin is considering selling stakes in some of Russia’s state jewels to foreign buyers to raise cash for an economy brought to its knees by the collapse in oil prices and sanctions related to Ukraine.