Much of its gear and training had Soviet fingerprints all over it. The generals watching from Moscow could reasonably believe ...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Marking the 37th anniversary of the withdrawal of former Soviet Union forces from Afghanistan, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) on Sunday said aggressor powers should draw ...

Sergei Krikalev watched the Soviet Union collapse from 200 miles above Earth, unsure when he would ever come home. Then, ...

Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa has found success in both scripted and documentary films, many of which explore the ...

His score of books and hundreds of essays documented Stalinist executions, Communist repressions and censorship, and the transition to post-Soviet Russia.

Few would deny that the EU now also has a Soviet-style “nomenklatura”; a new class of “Eurocrats” which also enjoys legal ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, has died at age 91, Russian state media reported and his personal press secretary Vladimir Polyakov confirmed to CBS News. His cause of death ...

EADaily, . We were part of the Soviet Union, and it is impossible to erase it. Abdulla Rasulov, Doctor of Historical Sciences ...

From 2013 to 2015, Russian photographer Danila Tkachenko traveled thousands of miles to some of the most remote regions of the country to photograph once-proud structures of the Soviet Union that have ...

Communal central heating means Moscow can plunge entire neighbourhoods into cold with a single strike ...

The novel was published in Russian as ‘Odin den’ Ivan Denisovicha’ in 1962. Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970.