When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the Red Army suffered devastating losses and entire sections of the front ...

For four decades, Kazakhstan's Semipalatinsk test site became one of the Soviet Union's most important nuclear weapons proving grounds. Moscow selected the region partly because officials portrayed it ...

For many post-Soviet states, multipolarity is nothing new. Navigating between competing powers has been an important part of ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, died in Moscow, on Tuesday, at the age of ninety-one. In the last two decades of his life, he rarely granted interviews. So, in 2010, when he ...

The events of August 1991 led to the Soviet Union, and President Gorbachev, being consigned to the history books. Malcolm Brinkworth explains what really happened during those final days. Just over ...

Originally produced eight decades ago, the impact of the IS-2 Heavy Tank still reverberates today. The formidable armored vehicle was vital to the Soviet Union during two of its most important ...

Moldova is one of Europe's poorest and least visited countries, but through wine, it's not only reinventing its identity but ...

Every revolution is a surprise. Still, the latest Russian Revolution must be counted among the greatest of surprises. In the years leading up to 1991, virtually no Western expert, scholar, official, ...

Director Ilya Khrzhanovsky built a sealed Soviet world in Ukraine, populated it with thousands of participants and filmed ...

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The Soviet Union disappeared from the map more than two decades ago. But online an 'e-vil empire' is thriving. Security experts say the .su Internet suffix assigned to the USSR in 1990 has turned into ...