Mikhail Zygar’s latest book revisits the figures who defined the USSR’s last years and the turbulent decades that followed ...

Soviet New Years, a ritual that survived the country’s dissolution, may be in danger of slipping away.

The Sukhoi Su-27 was developed as the Soviet Union’s answer to the American F-15 Eagle after Cold War intelligence failures ...

This video explores the complex history of women in the Soviet Union, tracing their journey from early voting rights in the ...

But in the Soviet Era, beginning in 1952, Vladivostok was a closed military city, and the only people allowed in and out were ...

There is talk of Russia moving into Belarus, launching attacks on Latvia and Lithuania, and preparing a massive operation in ...

After Communist leaders suppressed religious holidays, Dec. 31 became a catchall secular holiday — with a New Year’s tree, a ...

The Kremlin mothballed Admiral Kuznetsov, ending a refit that began more than seven years ago. Russia is the only permanent ...

A few months later, in April 1986, a sudden power surge during a reactor systems test caused a meltdown of the Chernobyl ...

January, President Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” in Ukraine will have dragged on longer than the war on the Eastern Front that ended with the fall of Berlin in May 1945.

For many people from former Soviet countries, New Year's is a big holiday feast time. A Ukrainian restaurant in Washington ...

Russia’s nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile system has entered active service, Russia’s Ministry of Defense says, as ...