Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Russian officials believe western pressure is hampering Moscow’s efforts to draw former Soviet nations ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is copying Soviet-era approaches that bankrupted the USSR and that he used to criticize, according to Poland's foreign minister. Speaking on a panel at the World ...

Da, tovarishiy (“Yes, comrades”), there were Soviet troops in North Vietnam, and in significantly larger numbers than their Korean War predecessors: an estimated 844 commissioned officers ...

Born in 1924 in Leningrad, Volpin entered Moscow University to study mathematics in August 1941—shortly after the Nazis invaded. Evacuated to Ashkabad in the Soviet republic of Turkmenistan ...

The Kremlin on Thursday “respectfully” disputed US President Donald Trump’s recent remarks on the Soviet Union playing a supportive role during World War II. On Wednesday, Trump said on his ...

The memorial in St Petersburg to 'Soviet civilians who fell victim to the Nazi Genocide' On the edge of St Petersburg stands a dramatic memorial more than 40 metres high. At the very top is the ...

president of the Egyptian Association of Russian and Soviet University Graduates said. Noteworthy, the Foreign Ministry reiterated Egypt's steadfast adherence to the principles and parameters of a ...

Organizers tell us the campus layout won’t see any major changes moving forward. “We expect all those things are going to continue to be planned that way and I think once we get to early and ...

Mr. Schmemann, a member of the editorial board, is a former Moscow bureau chief for The Times. It was March 1994, more than two years after the Soviet Union disintegrated, and the debates within ...

Yet this is not a Holocaust memorial as such. Its official title is "the memorial to Soviet civilians who fell victim to the Nazi genocide". I listen to a tour guide as she tells a group of ...

Most of the victims were Jews killed on an industrial scale in gas chambers, but also Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war, gay people and others who were targeted for elimination in the Nazi ...