When the Soviet Union sealed off West Berlin in June 1948, more than 2 million people were suddenly cut off from food, fuel, ...

Semyon Gluzman, who has died aged 79, was the first Soviet psychiatrist to blow the whistle on the Soviet Union’s abuse of ...

The Soviet Union stretched across Asia and Europe and ruled more than 15 republics. Unfortunately, the era of centralized control came crashing down in 1991. This resulted in redrawn borders and ...

On March 11, 1990, Lithuania became the first Soviet Republic to declare its independence from the Soviet Union. The U.S.S.R.

(Corrects to remove reference to Eduard Shevardnadze being the first post-Soviet president of Georgia in paragraph 9 of March ...

The Yak-9’s wooden airframe design represents a true engineering marvel—considering that this plane was being deployed against some of Hitler’s most advanced military technology on the Eastern Front.

U.S. ⁠academic Nina Khrushcheva, the great-granddaughter of a former Soviet leader, was designated by Russia on ⁠Friday as a ...

The World Cup has a long, storied and very well-known history. Most football fans know lots of World Cup tales from before they were born — from Pele’s three triumphs to Dutch Total Football and ...

Instead of obsessing over the fictional Cheburashka, Russians should be focused on more important things like the rebirth of ...

The Soviet Union had brought up its citizens as believers in scientific atheism, scornful of the tradition-based ...