He explains in the documentary: 'In 1991 when the test site was closed and Kazakhstan declared a moratorium everything broke up. People moved away and the Soviet Union collapsed.' Lyubov Filina ...

Between 1949 and 1991 the Soviet Union detonated 116 above ground bombs, whose massive radioactive mushroom clouds were witnessed by thousands of innocent and unsuspecting Kazakh villagers.

Putin’s Journey, a new two-hour CBC News documentary premiering Friday ... s path from childhood poverty to KGB agent in the Soviet Union, then from part-time taxi driver to the presidency ...