Soviet authorities in the ... formal apology for the more than 100,000 Chechen and Ingush deaths during the deportation. In 2004, during the raging war in Chechnya, the European Parliament raised ...

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Exploiting the weakness of post-Soviet Russia and Chechnya’s mountainous ... using the attacks as justification for launching the Second Chechen War, which propelled Vladimir Putin to power.

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow.

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era chess grand master who lost his ... of the game as well as a metaphor for the competition for Cold War supremacy, died Thursday in Moscow. He was 88.

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died on Thursday in Moscow.

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow.

Boris Spassky, Soviet Chess Champion Who Lost Famed Cold War-Era Match to Bobby Fischer, Dies at 88 MOSCOW (AP) — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American ...

MOSCOW — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow.

The duel between the two chessboard giants became the symbol of the Cold War rivalry between the USA and the Soviet Union.

Russian Court Jails Anti-War Soviet-Era Dissident for 16 Years, Prosecutor Says MOSCOW (Reuters) - A military court in St Petersburg jailed Soviet-era dissident and anti-war activist Alexander ...