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 A Russian A-50 aircraft.

Russian plane has 'flown it's last': Ukraine downs surveillance craft

By REUTERS
A view shows an icon, an element of which depicts Soviet leader Joseph Stalin being blessed by Russian Orthodox saint Matrona of Moscow, and that was recently defaced with paint in an act of protest amid controversy over the icon’s apparent honouring of Stalin in Tbilisi, Georgia, January 10, 2024.

Protest in Georgian capital amid anger over 'desecration' of Stalin icon

By REUTERS
 Israeli military reservists were among the 150 people with roots in the former Soviet Union who gathered on Dec. 21, 2023, for an evening of lectures, music and solidarity with Israel.

Wars in Israel, Ukraine take center stage in Israel for Jews rooted in former USSR

By LARRY LUXNER/JTA
 JEWS IMMIGRATING from the former Soviet Union, 1990.

Soviet Jewry's unsung heroes - opinion

 Aeroflot's An-2, the same plane Dymshits-Kuznetsov group tried to hijack

What historical events occurred due to hijacking of Soviet Plane in 1970?

By JOSEPH MENDELVICH
 THE TEL SAKI memorial site near Moshav Ramat Magshimim on the Golan Heights commemorates IDF soldiers who fell during the fighting there in the Yom Kippur War of 1973.

Yom Kippur War: The Middle East Armageddon's uncounted victims - comment

Royal Navy ambush submarine seen near Scotland

US revives Cold War submarine spy program to counter China

By REUTERS
 Russia's Dmitry Medvedev speaks during a presentation of the BMPT-72 tank, dubbed the "Terminator-2"

Russia's Medvedev hints at future Russian invasion of Georgia

By REUTERS
Workers mount a Ukrainian national emblem to the shield of the 'Motherland' monument replacing the Soviet one, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, at a compound of the World War II museum in Kyiv, Ukraine August 6, 2023.

Ukraine gets rid of Soviet symbols on Motherland monument in Kyiv

By REUTERS
 UKRAINIAN IMMIGRANTS arrive at Ben-Gurion Airport last year.

Israel must immediately bring more olim from the former Soviet Union - opinion

By ROBERT SINGER
Technical personnel prepare one of six British Tornado fighters October 11 before the planes took off from the Royal Air Force base in Brueggen

British World War II planes discovered in Ukraine

 Valentina Tereshkova, a Soviet cosmonaut and the first woman in space, currently a member of Russia's lower house of parliament, attends a session of the State Duma in Moscow, Russia July 22, 2020.

On this day 60 years ago: Russian astronaut becomes first woman in space

 Robert Hanssen, a former FBI agent deemed a traitor by the government Undated handout photo of former FBI agent Robert Hanssen

Robert Hanssen, FBI agent who spied for Russia, found dead in prison

By REUTERS
 AVITAL AND Natan Sharansky, reunited after 12 years, smile during an airport news conference upon his arrival in Israel, in 1986. The dynamic for Soviet Jewry changed with the founding of SSSJ, says the writer.

American Jews need a Soviet-style activist defense org. - opinion

By RON RUBIN
 Man carrying a Soviet Union flag.

Former Soviet Union nations have no legal status - Chinese ambassador

 Chinese Ambassador in France Lu Shaye attends the MEDEF union summer forum renamed La Rencontre des Entrepreneurs de France, LaREF, at the Paris Longchamp Racecourse in Paris, France, August 29, 2019.

Paris, Kyiv, Baltic states dismayed after China envoy questions Ukraine sovereignty

By REUTERS
 Nine Holocaust survivors rescued from the war in Ukraine arrive on a rescue flight, at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 27, 2022.

551 Holocaust survivors made aliyah in 2022; 52,513 made aliyah in total

 Young Russian-speaking volunteers help newer immigrants navigate life in Israel. Hedva Agapova, SSY Jerusalem Volunteer Coordinator, with Linda Pardes Friedburg

SSY: Helping Russian-speaking olim integrate into Israel

By ELI MANDELBAUM