A world power that helped defeat Nazi Germany and had crushed uprisings within its borders was suddenly viewed ... contributed to the crisis of the Soviet Union, but it wasn’t a decisive ...

The residency permit - or ‘propiska’ - was no longer an institution after the fall of the Soviet Union. It was deemed ... and were also often border towns. Getting in was only possible if ...

The province of Sinkiang, the most westerly of the Chinese territories, borders the Soviet Union along the whole western sector of the frontier. It is separated from ancient China by the extensive ...

The border between Russia’s Maritime Kray (Region ... last week’s explosion—became inevitable. Both China and the Soviet Union can probably extract some advantage from the armed clash ...

The Soviet Union provided extensive support to communist China, but in time relations between the two countries weakened, with a border clash occurring in 1969. In 1959, communist rebels led by ...

World War III fears are escalating as experts warn of Vladimir Putin's potential "land grab" ambitions that could restore Soviet Union borders and plunge the world into conflict. Top US and ...

He suggested that maps of Russia should show the borders of the Soviet Union, the Russian empire that preceded it, as well as the countries that are under Moscow's sphere of influence.

Kyrgyzstan reported “intense battles” with Central Asian neighbor Tajikistan on Friday and said 24 people had been killed in the latest outbreak of violence to hit the former Soviet Union.