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The Chernobyl nuclear disaster
In 1986, a reactor exploded in Soviet Ukraine causing the worst nuclear accident ever.
The Budapest Memorandum
The security "assurances" offered to Ukraine after it gave up its nuclear weapons in 1994
The Holodomor: Ukraine's great famine
Several million people died in the 1930s in what became known as The Holodomor
Ukraine's Babi Yar massacre
The mass killing of Ukrainian Jews by Nazi during World War Two.
Soviet holidays in Crimea
Artek, on the Black Sea coast, was the Soviet Union's most popular children's camp.
The 'Snow Revolution' against Vladimir Putin
A decade ago protestors tried to stop the Russian leader tightening his grip on power
The black stunt performers who took on Hollywood
The battle to fight prejudice behind-the-scenes in the American film industry.
Afghanistan's women's newspaper
Aina-E-Zan, or Women's Mirror, was launched in 2002 at a time of hope for Afghan women.
Selling Van Gogh's Sunflowers
How one of the Dutch artist's masterpieces was auctioned for a world record in 1987.
Escaping a Maoist cult
Aravindan Balakrishnan ran a cult in London for 30 years; then two of its fled.
The Falklands War - An islander's
A local radio broadcaster re keeping calm as Argentine troops invaded his studio.
The Falklands War - an Argentine
An Argentine conscript re his country's doomed military campaign in 1982.
The Soviet Union's Afghan War
How what Moscow planned as a short military operation turned into the Soviet "Vietnam".
The handshake in Space
How Russian cosmonauts and American astronauts met up in space during the Cold War
The Great American Grain Robbery
How a catastrophic trade deal between the US and Moscow sparked a global food price shock
Nato intervenes in Kosovo
How the US and its allies backed air strikes against Serbian forces to stop atrocities.
The largest war crimes trial in history
The former Serbian president, Slobodan Milosevic, went on trial at The Hague in 2002.
Greece's Great Famine
How hundreds of thousands of Greeks starved to death under Nazi occupation.
How Tinder changed the dating game
How the dating app with the swipe revolutionised the world of online romance
The World Wide Web
How the World Wide Web was created
Erasmus: Europe's student exchange scheme
The programme that's let millions of EU students live and study in other countries.
Women's rights in Basra
How women in the southern Iraqi city were persecuted for "anti-Islamic" behaviour
Britain's Soviet spy scandal
In 1971 during the Cold War, the UK expelled 90 Soviet diplomats suspected of spying.
Iranian revolution: The Kurdish uprising
A boy caught up in the forgotten battle for Kurdish autonomy in Iran in 1979
The battle for Kinder Scout
How workers in Manchester fought for the right to walk in the nearby countryside.
Algeria’s Milk Bar Bomber
Zohra Drif targeted an ice-cream parlour in Algiers during the war of independence
The War in Algeria: A French soldier's experience
A first-hand of the brutal French tactics against Algerian independence fighters
Algeria: The Massacre in Paris
How French police turned on Algerian demonstrators in Paris in 1961, killing dozens.
The Algerians who fought for
The bitter experiences of the fighters who opposed their own country's independence.
Algeria's rebel footballers
Algerian players secretly left their French clubs to form their own national team in 1958
The sinking of the Belgrano
An Argentine survivor re being torpedoed by the British during the Falklands War.
