Thirty years ago, this month, the nightmare experiment in Soviet communism formally came to an end. On the evening of December 25, 1991, the red flag of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was ...

MOSCOW, Aug. 23 -- Alexander Katusev, the highest-ranking prosecutor during the regime of the Soviet Union's last leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, committed suicide at a resort in southern Russia, the ...

Whether Putin will use military force or other forms of continued intimidation tactics, there is little doubt he is haunted by the dissolution of the USSR and is looking for some way to ...

It consisted of 15 Soviet socialist republics but was highly centralized for most of its history. Although the U.S.S.R.'s official language was Russian, ...

LEV N. SMIRNOV, 74, a Soviet prosecutor at the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials of World War II war criminals, died Sunday. Smirnov came to attention in the West in 1966 when he presided over the ...

A small group of lawmakers have asked Russia's top prosecutor to investigate whether the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, should face treason charges over his role in the 1991 collapse of ...

As World War II drew to a close, millions of Russians and other Soviet citizens found themselves outside the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Some were prisoners of war, others civilian forced ...