The Clinton administration intends to create a supercommittee in the State Department to shape a unified strategy toward Russia and the other former Soviet republics, senior administration official… ...

A Soviet map of San Diego from 1980 (top) shows the buildings at the U.S. Naval Training Center and Marine Corps Recruiting Depot in more detail than does the USGS map published in 1979 (bottom).

Russians In The Former Soviet Union Click on the map to see how many Russians live in each of the former Soviet republics. RUSSIANS OUTSIDE OF RUSSIA: A total of some 30 million ethnic Russians ...

Map of the former Soviet Union Which countries were in the Soviet Union? The USSR was a socialist state formed after the Russian revolution in 1917.. It was initially a confederation of the states ...

When the Soviet Union finally collapsed in 1991, Russia lost a lot of its influence. Now Mr Putin appears intent on turning the clock back more than 30 years to the Soviet Union’s heyday.

"The Soviet Union has been split." The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 remade the world map and upended global politics. Fifteen countries were produced, and power shifted across Europe and Asia.

Younger men in the former Soviet Union also have an unusually high mortality rate, which has widened the population’s gender imbalance. One way to see this is to look at the life expectancy of men and ...

After Belarus (slightly) updated its official crest, we had a look at some other former Soviet emblems, before and after independence. Uzbek S.S.R. All Soviet emblems were required to feature the ...

Putin mourns the Soviet Union. A former KGB operative, ... To understand how Putin views Ukraine, and why it’s so entangled in his national mythology, first look at a map. Former Soviet republics.