When the Soviet Union crumbled, so did control over its nuclear arsenal. With weapons-grade material suddenly vulnerable, a ...

The USSR, or Soviet Union, was one of the most influential and complex political entities of the 20th century. This video ...

Authorities in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, have removed a 75-foot (23-meter) statue of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, once believed to be ...

Moldova's education minister said on Monday that schools would keep teaching the subject "history of the Romanians," despite an official ruling that the term was unfair to the ex-Soviet state's ethnic ...

While the attendance at the conference reflected rising social anger, it gave no clear perspective on how to smash the ...

There are more terms we could mention — “prodazhnost,” the sense that everything is corrupt and for sale, and “foreign agents ...

Since the end of the cold war, the relevance of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) has regularly been questioned, ...

The upshot is that leveraging, including financial leveraging, became energized so extensively that it affected everything: ...

Beginning in the late 1980s, Eastern Europe shifted from being a political backwater to a political bellwether. By shrugging ...

Some of the most prevalent UFO conspiracy theories — including about aliens being housed at Area 51 in Nevada — were fueled ...

Schroeder, Putin meet in Germany; Banks impose financial dictatorship on New York City; First two of Hollywood Ten go to ...

Born in Marc Chagall's hometown in Belarus, the Russian Jewish dancer Valery Panov, who made aliyah to Israel, has died at 87 ...