It’s been 33 years now since the Soviet Union collapsed ... and coalition countries fighting in Afghanistan. This was an important strategic move that put the country on the map for western ...

After the Soviet Union broke up, NATO began forming friendships with former Soviet countries that were becoming independent states. Many of those countries eventually joined NATO. In addition to ...

After the Soviet Union crumbled in the early 1990s, something altogether eerie was discovered. Hundreds and thousands of maps of countries and cities throughout the world had been drawn up by ...

He then went on to deny the sovereign status of former Soviet Union countries, in a French interview on LCI on Friday. “In International law, ex-Soviet Union countries do not have effective ...

Isabel van Brugen is a Newsweek Reporter based in Kuala Lumpur. Her focus is reporting on the Russia-Ukraine war. Isabel joined Newsweek in 2021 and had previously worked with news outlets ...

He suggested that maps of Russia should show the borders of the Soviet Union, the Russian empire that preceded it, as well as the countries that are under Moscow's sphere of influence.

Seven countries that had been locked behind ... economic and social character of what was once the Soviet Union, as well as the entire map of Eastern Europe. But he, more than anyone, knew how ...

The Soviet Union stretched across Asia and Europe and ... Yet, it remains one of the most isolated nations on the map. The government controls media, politics, and daily life to restrict the ...