The director of Collective Phenomena, Semion Aleksandrovskiy, shared a little of this complex history via his own family ...
Retirement Drama: The fall of the USSR and Cold War’s end reshaped U.S. and Russian nuclear strategies, reflected in the ...
Tangerines from Morocco, processed cheese from Finland, canned vegetables from Hungary and Bulgaria – Soviet housewives knew ...
It was easy to find out the price of a product in Soviet times: it was stamped directly on it. Almost all goods were marked, ...
"When we start talking about the same 90s, citing as an example the names of traitors, scoundrels, those who allowed the collapse of the Soviet Union, why don't we say where they came from?" — said ...
In the mid-1960s they even started work on converting the Mil Mi-6 — the USSR’s largest and fastest helicopter — to carry paying passengers. Unfortunately this never got past a single ...
At age 20, I couldn't form a sentence in the language of the USSR's arch-enemy; my teachers, who didn't speak English themselves, made sure of that. Born and raised in Ukraine, I had just ...
The KGB’s successor, the Federal Security Service, or FSB, continued to probe our secrets and attempted to recruit agents just as aggressively as the KGB at the height of the Cold War. Moscow marked ...
It was the end for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Events unfolded in a deliberately discreet location: a hunting lodge for the Soviet elite tucked away in a forest in Belarus.
Viktor Orbán has compared the European Union to Soviet Russia in a scathing speech on the 68th anniversary of the Hungarian uprising against the USSR. The nationalist leader and Putin ally ...
Between independence and the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, nearly 15,000 Moroccans traveled to Russia to pursue their ...
Fifty years ago today the Republic of Ireland stunned the USSR as they swept to a famous 3-0 win in the European Championship ...