Topic - Soviet Union

• John Glenn fever gripping Cape Canaveral _ again

  John Glenn fever gripped Cape Canaveral on Friday, just as it did half a century ago when America was on the verge of launching its first man into orbit.

• Glenn fever returns 50 years after historic flight

  John Glenn fever gripped Cape Canaveral on Friday, just as it did half a century ago when America was on the verge of launching its first man into orbit.

• Godspeed John Glenn: 50 years since first US orbit

  The name still resonates and generates goose bumps like few others in the world of spaceflight.

• Godspeed John Glenn: 50 years since first US orbit

  The name still resonates and generates goose bumps like few others in the world of spaceflight.

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  Tension surrounds Latvian vote on Russian as 2nd language

  A referendum Saturday on designating Russian as Latvia's second official language has drawn supporters who say it is a protest vote against discrimination against Russian Latvians and detractors who say it is evidence of Moscow's manipulation of the former Soviet republic.

• Author wins $100,000 prize for Jewish history

  The author of a history of Jews in the Soviet Union has won a $100,000 award.

• HURT: Pious pretenders should blame themselves

  The shocker out of the fracas over President Obama forcing contraceptives on everybody has been how all these suddenly pious politicians and appeasing religious leaders who paved the way for Obamacare pretend to be surprised that the right to rubbers, diaphragms and pills has been enshrined in the pantheon of American rights, up there with free speech.

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  U.S. weighing steep nuclear arms cuts

  he Obama administration is weighing options for sharp new cuts to the U.S. nuclear force, including a reduction of up to 80 percent in the number of deployed weapons, the Associated Press has learned.

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  BOOK REVIEW: 'It Was a Long Time Ago, And It Never Happened Anyway'

  Anyone who has paid heed to Russia in the two decades since the collapse of communism and the Soviet Union has come to realize that things have not worked out all that well. Those desiring better lives, seeking the freedoms enjoyed by other peoples of the world, threw off the shackles of an authoritarian state that routinely persecuted, imprisoned and murdered its citizens by the millions.

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  NATO extends Baltic air patrols

  NATO has decided to extend an operation to protect the airspace of Baltic members Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania with fighter jets, officials said Wednesday.

• Russia's unlikely protest song rocks rally

  The most popular protest song in Moscow today comes from burly men in blue berets, unlikely heroes of a peaceful middle-class movement challenging the strongman rule of Vladimir Putin.

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  Treasure hunter says he found $3B WWII wreck

  A treasure hunter said he has located the wreck of a British merchant ship that was torpedoed by a German U-boat off Cape Cod during World War II while carrying what he claims was a load of platinum bars now worth more than $3 billion.

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  YOUNG: States of repression

  The only thing "new" in North Korea's new year is that their hell is under new management. "The great leader," Kim Jong-il, has been replaced by Kim Jong-un, "the great successor," but the state that causes incomprehensible misery for its unfortunate inhabitants continues tyrannically along.

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  PUTIN: Russia muscles past old Soviet Union

  On March 4, the people of Russia will be going to the polls to elect a president of the country. Extensive discussions are currently under way across society.

• Inside Politics

  Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich has proposed a commission to study the management of in vitro fertilization clinics, where infertile couples seek treatment to allow pregnancy and large numbers of leftover embryos are discarded or stored.

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