Pavel Litvinov is a former Soviet dissident and human rights activist who played a key role in protesting state repression in ...

Georgy Zhukov was Stalin’s top general. During World War II, he led the Red Army from victory to victory, but when peace ...

MOSCOW, March 21 (Reuters) - A military court in St Petersburg jailed Soviet-era dissident and anti-war activist Alexander Skobov for 16 years on Friday after convicting him of "justifying ...

In April 1954, Soviet spies Vladimir and Evdokia Petrov, masquerading as Canberra diplomats, defected to Australia. This Cold ...

“You’re next,” said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union’s collapse in late 1991. I was an American student in St. Petersburg, and he was referring to the ...

The Soviet Union stretched across Asia and Europe and ... digital age while keeping Russia at arm’s length. Latvia is a small nation with big aspirations. It spent centuries under foreign ...

The White House denies that classified information was shared when The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg was added to a group ...

Lithuania became the first country to declare independence from the Soviet Union on March 11, 1991. Here is a quiz on countries that were part of the Soviet Union Published - March 11, 2025 05:10 ...

It was 1938, and the Soviet Union sought to protect the city of Leningrad from a possible German attack on the eve of World War II. But there was one little thing that prevented them from creating a ...

A newly released novel is illuminating a little known chapter of Central Asian history during the Soviet era. It focuses on ...