Of course, then all of them — Yeltsin, Shushkevich, Kravchuk — said at every corner that they had decided to renew the USSR ...

As historian Vladislav Zubok writes in his new book “Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union”, previous guests had included Cuban president Fidel Castro and the East German communist leader ...

In reality, the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Soviet Union were primarily the work of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev—two consequences of his radically reformist policies (the former ...

It completes today its largest exercises since the Soviet Union and is racing to expand its fleet of ice-breakers.

The head of Russia's nuclear testing site said on Tuesday his secretive facility was ready to resume nuclear tests "at any ...

From stories set in Ancient Greece to colonial America, these are the biggest historical fiction books hitting shelves this ...

Historically, Russia’s military has always relied heavily on tanks and artillery, ultimately amassing one of the largest ...

After years of work in post-Soviet Ukraine, JDC was able to build a strong community infrastructure, provide excellent ...

Soviet leader Josef Stalin ordered Stalingrad defended at all costs and German advances during the late summer and fall of 1942 were pushed back during the winter, and what was left of the German ...

As summer ends, museums across the Twin Cities are elevating individual narratives as a way to explore larger, thornier societal topics.