The Soviet Army, with its enormous size and power, was the largest and most formidable military force in history. Between ...

When Russian troops poured into Ukraine in February 2022, the reverberations were felt not only in the geopolitical order but ...

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan (L) listens to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at a summit of the heads of state ...

Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) officially launched an effort seeking to ban the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, according to The ...

At least three people were killed on Wednesday when a military helicopter serving the African Union peacekeeping mission in ...

Lithuanian prosecutors said on Wednesday Russia's GRU military intelligence service had ordered the defacement of a monument to an anti-Soviet resistance leader in January 2024.

Metallica's juggernaut of a concert in Moscow, in 1991. The Soviet Union was in crisis. A month before Metallica's show, a group of eight high-ranking officials calling themselves the State Committee ...

THE SOVIET Union was a brutal regime fronted by dangerous, power-hungry madmen who ruled with a vice-like grip. Sound familiar? Vladimir Putin has never been coy about his Soviet nostalgia – … ...

The Soviet Union dissolved quickly in 1990-91 because over half the population really wanted it to happen and had wanted it for a long time. Moreover, many ethnic Russians were tired of supporting a ...

The Soviet Union's economy collapsed in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and it finally dissolved in 1991.

The P.R.C.’s former benefactor, later rival, and finally ally, the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, 74 years after its founding. The P.R.C. has now outlasted it.