Just minutes earlier, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev ... while keeping tighter controls on the political system. “The collapse of the Soviet Union was one of those occasions in history ...

The Soviet Union's long gone, yet Moscow still has huge economic and political clout, at least until now. Some here believe Russia's reach is weakened by the Ukraine war and that, while that map ...

Most of them are registered as natives of the ‘former Soviet Union’. An allocation method on the basis of their place of birth is used to determine the nationality of these people as citizens of one ...