They showed that a small number of activists can have an outsized impact even under circumstances that, in every imaginable ...

The story of the Soviet leader’s time in power, his policies against Jews, and his relationship with Israel and Zionism ...

Armenia and Azerbaijan were locked in conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh for nearly four decades after the Soviet Union they were ...

This year—25 years after the Soviet Union’s collapse—I went back again, to meet these young people like Sasha. Who are they? What do they want from their lives? What do they want for Russia?

The story and legacy of the vast Soviet nuclear test site in Kazakhstan, The Polygon ...

Former prisoners of the Soviet Union's communist regime have written a letter addressing Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy ...

Activist, chef, and cookbook author Yevhen Klopotenko is peeling away layers of Soviet-era influence on the table.

“You’re next,” said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union’s collapse in late 1991. I was an American student in St. Petersburg, and he was referring to the ...

A life-size portrait of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin and other paintings from the former state are going up for auction. Described as "monumental", they will be up for sale at Wotton ...

By the end of the year Gorbachev had resigned and the Soviet Union was no more. Dina Newman has spoken to the former President of Belorussia, Stanislav Shushkevich, and the former President of ...