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Karolis Kaupinis Directed ‘Hunger Strike Breakfast,’ Set During the Gorbachov-Ordered Soviet Invasion of Lithuania, Boarded by Alief (EXCLUSIVE)

Alief, the French-U.K. film company, has swooped on worldwide sales rights to Lithuanian Karolis Kaupinis’ “Hunger Strike Breakfast,” his…

Who Is Alnur Mussayev? Former Soviet Security Official, Makes Explosive Claims that Trump Was Recruited as Russian Spy

A former high-ranking Soviet KGB officer, Alnur Mussayev, has claimed that the agency recruited Donald Trump as a spy in 1987. Mussayev,…

By Swedan Margen

How a drab Soviet metropolis became Central Asia’s capital of cool

Several cities around the globe have reinvented themselves in recent years, but none more successfully than Almaty. Since the collapse of…

By Susan Darwin