Was Russia provoked into the war in Ukraine? Certainly. However, gaslighting was involved as well; not by Scott Horton’s ...

The Latvian parliament on Wednesday voted in favour of withdrawing from the Ottawa Convention international treaty that bans ...

In August 1991, the Soviet empire collapsed. Yet this colossus seemed indestructible: its power had towered over the world for nearly a century. But a collapsed economy, reforms too late to avoid ...

On Dec. 30, 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ... before its fall and ultimate dissolution in 1991. That’s right, 69 years. Initially, the union consisted of Russia, Ukraine ...

Show more December 1991 saw the end of 70 years of communist rule and the collapse of the Soviet Union. We hear from two of the key signatories of the dissolution treaty, a witness to the ensuing ...

However, the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s led to the dissolution of this goal. Kuznetsov’s sister ship ...

April 17, 2025: NATO countries closer to Russia spend more on defense because they are aware of the threat. That’s why these countries also spend higher percentages of GDP in aid to Ukraine. Estonia, ...

Armenia and Azerbaijan Only part of the persons born in one of the 15 states of the former Soviet Union are included in the municipal population registers (GBA) as being born in one of the present new ...

An Astronaut became stranded in space for 311 days after his country stopped existing while he was in orbit. In 1991 Sergei ...

Many tributes to Gorbachev have credited him with presiding over the “bloodless” dissolution of the Soviet Union—forgetting that blood was and, in some cases, continues to be shed in ...