a State Duma MP, described how since the fall of the Soviet Union "we've lived without looking to the future" and that "now we have a dream, now we know what we are living for and it will outlast us." ...

Gorbachev died after a long illness, Russian state news agencies ... was lowered. The Soviet Union – was over and Yeltsin was in control. “We are living in a new world,” Gorbachev said.

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Launched in 1972, the failed Venus probe has been stuck in Earth orbit ever since. Now it's hurtling back down to Earth.

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