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thousands of royal mail workers in the uk stage a second day of strike action in a row over pay, disrupting deliveries of packages and letters. a new study shows the impact of climate change on the shrinking glaciers of switzerland. hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk, or around the world. the last leader of the soviet union, mikhail gorbachev, has died, aged 91, following a long illness. mr gorbachev was crucial to ending the cold war. he was one of the most influential political figures of the 20th century. world leaders have been paying tribute. the un chief antonio gut...

(RNS) — The Russian leader ended 70 years of repression of the Russian Orthodox Church but opened the way for other faith groups.

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Yuri Nicholas Maltsev is an Austrian school economist and economic historian from Tatarstan. He earned his BA and MA degrees from Moscow State University and PhD in labor economics at the Institute of Labor Research in Moscow. Before defecting to the United States in 1989, he was a member of a senior Soviet economics team that worked on President Gorbachev’s reforms package of perestroika. He is currently professor of economics at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He has appeared on CNN, PBS NewsHour, Fox News, CBC, and Financial Network News across American, Canadian, and European te...

Administration continued to tread softly dealing with the shrinking soviet union. >> we tried to move at a pace which would not endanger gorbachev. eventually there was a coup but by then it was too late. actually pulled the soviet union right out from under gorbachev. >> the idol of communism has collapsed. >> president bush said i don't want any gloating. we have a lot of business to do with the leaders in the soviet union. i don't want to anybody in my administration sticking it in their eye. >> gorbachev resigned december 25th, 1991, and the soviet union dissolved the following day. >> had...