Soviet Union

The Ukrainian parliament on Tuesday ratified a landmark EU pact that decisively steers the former Soviet state towards the West and away from Russian influence.

Ukrainian flag was raised on the spire of a famous Moscow's Stalin-era skyscraper on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment early on Wednesday.

Protesters painted the Soviet star on its spire in the national colors of Ukraine and also attached a yellow and blue Ukrainian flag to the top of the 176-meter building.

A Romanian court on Monday started the trial of Ion Ficioru, former commander of a Communist-era labour camp, who is charged with crimes against humanity for the deaths of 103 political prisoners half a century ago.

Following the last session of Bulgaria's 42nd National Assembly late Monday, the metal fences surrounding the building of the Parliament have been taken down.

BELGRADE - A collection of documents entitled Yugoslavia-USSR; Meetings and discussions between top officials of Yugoslavia and the USSR, 1946-1964, tome I was presented at the Yugoslav Archive on Thursday.

BELGRADE - A multimedia exhibition on the repression of the communist regime in Serbia, titled In the name of the people! Political repression in Serbia in 1944-53, opened late Wednesday at the Historical Museum of Serbia in Belgrade.