Putin has long viewed nostalgia as a powerful means of reassuring — and subduing — the public. Putin revived the Soviet anthem and restored the Red Army flag as the official banner of the military.

The Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev, made much of his nation’s technological prowess. In fact the technological lead and the strategic balance remained very much in America’s favour – but that did ...

EIGHT passengers were shaken but not hurt as the plane they were in allegedly skidded onto grass as they tried to land at the Kerema Airport, Gulf province.