The 1953 coup d'etat in Iran ushered in a period of exploitation and oppression that has continued – despite a subsequent revolution that led to huge changes – for 70 years. Each year on August 19, ...

On August 22, 1991, the white, blue and red flag once again flew over Russia," the president stressed. According to Putin, "the national flag and the unfading Red Banner of Victory instil in the ...

MOSCOW, August 18. /TASS/. The Soviet Union’s first president, Mikhail Gorbachev, has said that the lessons of the 1991 government coup are still relevant today and both society and the state ...