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

Few foresaw the sudden and total collapse of the Soviet regime, though all the signs of economic decay and imperial overreach were there to see by 1989. Putin’s regime is not yet at this point ...

A revealing, damning and fascinating diplomatic memorandum, sent in 1994 from the US embassy in Moscow to the State ...

Ukrainian expertise Ukraine became independent when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, but its defense industry continued to ...

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

Political advisers believed, equally passionately, that such "shock therapy” would only worsen the devastating dislocation Russians were already suffering with the collapse of the Soviet Union.

MOSCOW--Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize the Soviet Union but ended up unleashing forces that led to the collapse of communism, the breakup of the state and the end of the Cold War ...

Russia may stand a better chance at sustaining its war economy than previously thought. That's according to Vladislav Inozemtsev, an exiled Russian economist who thinks the chances of an economic ...