Here's the standard high school history class summary of the Soviet Union: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was ...

Imagine a political and cultural revolution that shakes the world. Indeed, one could easily say it turned the world upside down. Now imagine you are part ...

Officially known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the state was made up of 15 republics – including Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Belorussia, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan ...

MOSCOW, July 12. /TASS/. The USSR republics’ right for secession was "the most dangerous time bomb" under the statehood of the Soviet Union, Russian President Vladimir Putin wrote in the article ...

A mong other things, the Cold War was replete with examples of the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics attempting to one-up each other in the arena of aerospace ...

During the Cold War, Albanian leader Enver Hoxha scattered a colony of 175,000 concrete bunkers across the country. This is ...

and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Watch and listen to people around the world reading articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in more than 80 languages.

The Tartu Peace Treaty, signed on 2 February 1920, was the treaty that ended the Estonian War of Independence that had ...

Ukraine celebrates Sobornosti Day: what happened after the announcement of the Zluka Act and what lessons should be learned ...

Just over a week ago, at an international hockey tournament in Moscow, the Russian national team invaded the ice wearing the uniform of the Soviet ... name of the Union of Soviet Socialist ...

Baltic states Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are to disconnect from the Russian power grid on Saturday, a politically-charged ...

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, who died on August 30 at the age of ninety-one, was a generous, kind-hearted man, as the BBC would like us to remember. The last Soviet leader, who presided ...