Russia is aiming to revive Soviet-era propaganda about the threat of a "nuclear winter" to instill fear into the Western ...

The Soviet Union's economy collapsed in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and it finally dissolved in 1991. Sikorski's comments echoed a warning by the managing director of the International ...

In 1980, Carter pushed further to punish the ... purposes by sending timid and even contradictory signals to the Soviet Union." Carter's policy was based on "weakness and illusion" and should ...

The different target audiences led to the siddurim being printed in two versions: while the siddurim for olim from the Soviet Union contained the Israeli national prayers, those sent through various c ...

Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov won a world championship title together in pairs skating in 1994 and narrowly missed out on Olympic medals, before moving to the U.S. and coaching generations of ...

dies at 91 As leader of the Soviet Union in the 1980s, Gorbachev introduced a policy of greater transparency of government institutions and freedom of information. Hours after British Prime ...