Film director Karen Shakhnazarov said he was in favor of America's current leadership as it weakened Moscow's "main adversary ...

The Soviet Union’s collapse 32 years ago led to rapid change, economic collapse, and violence. In Tajikistan, that violence slid rapidly into civil war. Five experts explore the legacy of the ...

Why did the USSR collapse? In this video, we analyze the internal and external pressures that led to the Soviet Union's downfall. From economic stagnation to political unrest and the influence of ...

The flow of electricity between the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and Russia has been officially severed.

The collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s heralded an era of environmental recovery from intensive military and industrial expansion. Since then, greenhouse gas emissions and pollution ...

This edition of the Lonely Planet guide to the USSR was published just as the Soviet Union collapsed. The book was published with a note saying that the due to events occuring at the time of going ...

TASS/. Tectonic processes underway in the world and the Ukrainian conflict originated as early as at the time of collapse of the USSR, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry ...

John Simpson visits Russia's neighbour Latvia for a special episode of Unspun World where he reflects on how the collapse of the Soviet Union has shaped Putin’s Russia. With BBC experts in the region, ...