Moscow has launched its most ambitious weapons program since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine's military ...

Lieutenant General Kyrylo Budanov, Head of Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU), has reported that Russia plans to spend ...

The Soviet Arctic (some of which is south of the Circle) is the Soviet Union’s pioneerland, a vast (2,316,600 sq. mi.), cold, potentially rich region, bigger than the West that lay before the ...

The Soviet Union, or the USSR, was one of the most powerful and mysterious superpowers in history, with a lasting impact on ...

The death of Vadim Medvedev marks the quiet end of an era when Communist apparatchiks ruled the Soviet Union from behind ...

Above the Arctic Circle, a once-flourishing Russian coal-mining town is in rapid decline. ... Vorkuta was “one of the richest and most promising northern working cities of the Soviet Union.” ...

From 1925, when the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic was declared a part of the Soviet Union, one photographer was able to capture the “radical social surgery” enacted by the Bolsheviks that forever ...

A Soviet Ghost Town in the Arctic Circle, ... When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the motherland subsidies that supported Arktikugol’s operations and the town began to thin.

As the Soviet Union’s final leader, Mikhail Gorbachev dreamed of a “common European home,” but three decades later that tantalizing idea remains out of reach. By Roger Cohen PARIS ...

The Soviet Union was the world's first communist country and had a major influence on the 20th century — and still has an influence today.