It was years in the making, but when it actually came, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 occurred suddenly. In the ...

VILNIUS – Robertas Povilaitis, the son of a man killed during the Soviet crackdown in Lithuania in January 1991, said on Tuesday he regretted that prosecutors never opened a criminal case against ...

Mark Smith’s impressive history surveys life in the Soviet Union, and its advances and failures from Khrushchev to Gorbachev ...

The assault on the television centre in January 1991 definitively ruined the plans for perestroika, also giving Gorbachev the ...

This ambition reflects more than three decades of reform and a sustained belief that education represents the country’s most ...

Moldovan President Maia Sandu has said she would vote in favour of unification with neighbouring European Union and NATO ...

On the night of 19 January the Soviet army occupied the cities of Azerbaijan and an unprecedented massacre took place ...

The Kremlin said U.S. President Donald Trump has not yet responded to Russian President Vladimir Putin's offer to extend the ...

Moldova's president Maia Sandu recently stated in a podcast that she would vote in favor of her country joining Romania in ...

First flying in 1949 the Il-28 Beagle was a twin-engined straight-winged jet bomber powered by the Klimov VK-1 jet engine, an ...

Vladimir Mitrokhin’s amazing story is the subject of a new book, ‘The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB.’ ...