International Women’s Day and the Russian connection However, it was later decided that March 8 would be celebrated as International Women’s Day thanks to the ‘Bread and Peace’ protest in Russia’s ...

In Russia, the February Revolution (known as such because of Russia’s use of the Julian calendar) begins on March 8, 1917 ...

Today is Saturday, March 8, the 67th day of 2025. There are 298 days left in the year. Today in history: On March 8, 1965, the United States landed its first combat troops in South Vietnam as 3,500 ...

On March 8, 1917, protests against food rationing broke out in Petrograd ... mainly because of the opposition of the Petrograd Soviet, the revolutionary Workers’ and Soldiers’ Council, they were ...

These were the slogans shouted at the heart of Russia's capital, Petrograd, in 1917 when women by the thousands marched ... It was much later that it was a national holiday in the Soviet Union and the ...

International Working Women’s Day was never meant to be a celebration of women’s achievements within capitalism—it was a call to revolution. Its origins lie in the struggles of communist and socialist ...

the anteroom to the centenary of the Russian revolutions of 1917, has already brought us several books that, in various ways, speak to the epochal events that brought down a 300-year-old regime and ...

In Russia, Serge – he used the pen name from 1917 – encountered an explosion of revolutionary ... he set up the Museum of the Revolution in Petrograd, which gave him access to the archives of the ...

A former officer of Russia's spy agency Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (KGB) has claimed that US president Donald Trump was groomed 37 years ago as a "potential Soviet asset'. According to him, ...

Alnur Mussayev, a former Soviet intelligence officer and former head of Kazakhstan's National Security Committee, claims that Soviet Russia recruited Donald Trump as a KGB agent in 1987. People are ...

Peter Baker, a leading reporter at The New York Times, blasted President Trump’s White House over its decision to take control of the press pool covering the president and ban The Associated ...