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Altamura Vodka that has now launched in the UK

Italian vodka praised for 'no gimmicks' reminded me of Russian secret

Three Buccaneers at the museum. (Pic credit: Yorkshire Air Museum)

Buccaneer Day 2024 at Yorkshire museum to mark 30 years since jet’s retirement

The Old Guard House at Goldsborough.

The new holiday home near Whitby which defied the war and Soviet bomb threat

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shakes hands with the then British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on August 24, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. PIC: Alexey Furman/Getty Images

Why have Victory Day parades been scaled down across Russia? - Patrick Mercer

Ukrainian troops move by tanks on a road of the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas on June 21, 2022. PIC: ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP via Getty Images

Is the next Ukrainian counteroffensive being set up to fail? - Patrick Mercer

Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader, died at the age of 91.

Why Putin should learn from the legacy of Gorbachev - The Yorkshire Post says

As Soviet leader, Gorbachev’s belief in glasnost and perestroika – openness and restructuring - ended decades of repression. Picture: PA

How Mikhail Gorbachev brought a peaceful end to the Cold War - Greg Wright

A hotel spared the climbers from sleeping in a snow hole.

The Yorkshire Vet remembers a challenging climbing trip to Slovakia

Taliban fighters take control of Afghan presidential palace after the Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country, in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Rise of Taliban has roots in Soviet invasion of Afghanistan – Gwynne Dyer

Richard Hammond, Jeremy Clarkson, and James May will be hosting the new episode of The Grand Tour.

How to watch The Grand Tour Presents: Lochdown

(Image: Activision)

Activision just teased Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War - here's everything we k...

Shoppers leave Primark in Birmingham, as further coronavirus lockdown restrictions are lifted in England.

We want light at the end of the tunnel, not traffic wardens – David Behrens

Call of Duty: Warzone's battle royale mode features a gulag mode which has quickly spawned memes (Acitivision)

The gulag meme and social media trend from Call of Duty Warzone explained

A new trailer for Stranger Things season four has been released - here’s what it...

November 1989, East and West Germans stand on the Berlin Wall.

Leeds University students tell the story of the fall of the Berlin Wall in a new...

A helicopter attempts to decontaminate the area just a few days after the accident

Chernobyl: What happened when the Yorkshire Post visited the scene of the world'...

SPECIAL PERFORMANCE: GB forward Rob Dowd in Budapest against Slovenia. Picture: Dean Woolley.

WATCH - Great Britain 3 Slovenia 1: Dowd hails '˜special' performance by GB

John Major and Margaret Thatcher

When Thatcher and Major went to war over poll tax

Refugees from Hungary arrive in Switzerland in 1956 to start a new life. People in Yorkshire helped look after many refugees.

When Yorkshire opened its arms to Hungary's refugees

Hayburn Wyke

Country & Coast: Covert history of secluded Yorkshire cove

Francis Spufford, author of Golden Hill. Picture: Bart Koetsier

Francis Spufford's time warp

Francis Spufford already has a prestigious reputation as a writer of non-fiction: The Child That Books Built is now something of a modern classic of the genre-knotting form; Red Plenty is an astonishing account of Soviet technophilia and Unapologetic is a fine piece of polemic against atheism '“ even though it struck me as sometimes intemperate.

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Sacha Baron Cohen stars as Nobby in new film Grimsby. Photo: Columbia Pictures.

Taking the grim out of Grimsby

Public Service Broadcasting

Music interview: Public Service Broadcasting

Charles Allen: Volunteers help us reach for the stars

Terror excuse for Soviet-style surveillance

The Black Hat Burger in ilkley

Restaurant review: Hang with the hipsters

Jayne Dowle: Perfect storm is brewing and politicians must act

Reforming Soviet minister Shevardnadze dies

Diabetes is becoming a national health emergency, a charity has warned

KGB branded British spies ‘hopeless drunks’

Hague offers assurance to Ukraine over Britain’s ‘practical help’

Leeds Market

Tidings of joy amid Soviet intrigue and times of austerity

Putin to boost military presence in Arctic

Expanding Russia’s military presence in the Arctic region is among the armed forces’ top priorities, president Vladimir Putin has declared.

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Tymoshenko to remain in custody as Ukraine postpones key vote

Deborah McAndrew & Conrad Nelson

Hammer and giggle as Soviet satire gets makeover

Our Eurovision singer was victim of ‘shameful vote theft’ says Russia

Jailing of former PM ‘was political’

Soviet Block cars took to the roads of North and East Yorkshire yesterday during a tour that eventually took them to the cold war bunker at RAF Holmpton near Withernsea.

Comrades hail cars that came in from the cold

Environment Secretary Owen Paterson

Tory rising star says technology key to prosperity in countryside

Exxon and Shell oil field choice for Ukraine

Park boss accused of trying to ‘silence members’

Poles show off their lives in Britain at exhibition

Language of violence

Desert nation sets up ice hockey league

Putin rejects calls to rerun ‘tainted’ election

Milestone as trial run is held on Afghanistan’s first railway service

Bill Carmichael: A new world full of danger

Alex Morton: Let the people decide on quality new housing

Bernard Ingham: Anti-democratic EU should learn the lesson of Gorbachev

EU attacks trial as ex-Ukrainian leader jailed

Adidas looks to the rising Russian market

Russia’s famed circus arrives with brand new spectacular

Exclusive: Ronseal on the acquisition trail through central Europe

BP denies claims over TNK sale

Classical Preview: Bolshoi Symphony have a grand appointment

Times they are still a-changin’ – but where’s the voice of Dylan?

Hungary for success

New light thrown on secret war flight disaster

Prince under more pressure for lobbying over ‘torture’ regime

Estonia joins euro as its Soviet past slips away

Lid comes off Thatcher's Cold War secrets