When the USSR was consigned to the history books in 1991, so was the Soviet Army, which was carved up among the former republics as each built up its own military. The Russian Federation moved to ...

A plan to replace Soviet-era Russian military uniforms with ones by a leading ... drab olive shades Russia inherited from the former Soviet Union. On Friday, Senator Viktor Ozerov, chairman of Russian ...

The International Gymnastics Federation ... Russia and Belarus did not take effect until Monday. The Russian flag was already barred from his uniform by an earlier FIG decision. Kuliak, a former ...

Thomas Kika is a Newsweek weekend reporter based in upstate New York. His focus is reporting on crime and national politics. In the past, he has also focused on things like business, technology ...