A newly declassified analysis argued against “shock therapy” for the former Soviet Union. The warning wasn’t heeded.

Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov won a world championship title together in pairs skating in 1994 and narrowly missed out ...

Two Russian ships docked at Syria’s main Mediterranean port last week, in what appears to be part of a large-scale withdrawal ...

"The Soviet Union has such cultural influence in Finland ... grandmother's diary as she could see parallels with the recent Russian invasion of Ukraine "[I thought] if I'm not going to translate ...

The Russian leader often credits the Soviet Union with defeating Nazi Germany in his speeches, especially in the context of Russia's offensive in Ukraine. Putin has regularly accused Ukrainian ...

Yes, there were Soviet troops in North Vietnam, and in significantly larger numbers than their Korean War predecessors. Although the Cold War never turned into a “hot war,” i.e., full-blown World War ...

Since the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war in 2014, one Russian phrase has haunted me. It translates to “They [Ukrainians] ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday praised Soviet soldiers for ending the "total evil" of Auschwitz on the 80th ...

Tartous and Khmeimim are Moscow’s only military outposts outside the former Soviet Union. Russia’s foreign ministry said there had been a “frank discussion of the entire range of issues ...

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia and Iran found common ground in viewing the U.S. as a mutual adversary. In 1997, then-Foreign Ministers Evgeny Primakov and Ali Velayati called for ...