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The Soviet Union has been history for 30 years. But thought patterns and political claims have remained - the Russia-Ukraine conflict shows this in the most glaring way. Exactly 30 years ago the Soviet Union disintegrated. The dissolution of the USSR was carried out almost silently in the last days of December 1991. After the presidents of Russia and Ukraine, Boris Yeltsin and Leonid Kravchuk, and the Belarusian parliamentary chairman Stanislav Shushkevich agreed on the end of the USSR on December 8, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as President of the Soviet Union on December 25, 1991. Shortly afterwards, the Soviet flag was lowered over the Kremlin and replaced by that of the Russian Federation. Russia thus became the international legal successor to the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union was officially history. Israel's Plans To Expand It is less this historical moment at the end of 1991 than its dramatic prehistory that determines the memory of this time: The reform process of perestr...

The New York Times has revealed that the US military has concealed the facts of two airstrikes in the war-torn country of Syria in which 64 people, including women and children, were killed. According to the foreign news agency 'Reuters', the air strikes were carried out in 2019 to justify the action against ISIS. According to the New York Times, US airstrikes could potentially be considered a war crime. According to the report, two air strikes near the town of Baghoz were ordered by an undercover US special operations unit tasked with ground operations in Syria. The New York Times reported that the US Central Command, which oversees US air operations in Syria, acknowledged for the first time this week that the attacks were justified. The Central Command said in a statement to the newspaper that 80 people were killed in the attacks, including 16 ISIS fighters and four civilians. He said it was unclear whether the other 60 were civilians, partly because women and children could ...