Marking the end of the Cold War, members of Soviet Union, in 1991, broke the 70-year-old empire into 15 independent nations. In 2014, beginning with his invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin began ...

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Pop quiz: Russian troops have been operating in how many former Soviet republics so far this year? The answer requires an extended journey from Eastern Europe to Central Asia. The obvious starting ...

BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese government said Monday it respected the sovereignty of former Soviet Union republics after Beijing’s ambassador to France caused an uproar in Europe by saying they weren’t ...

As Israelis rejoice over the triumph of democratization and reform in the Soviet Union, some are warning that the Jewish state could be threatened if the 15 Soviet republics all declare their ...

Muscovites lined up near the Kremlin on Saturday to pay their respects to Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader who was widely admired in the West for his reforms and who lived long enough to ...

Mr. Ryzhkov, who ascended to the Soviet Union’s second most powerful post in 1985, took much of the blame for the economic collapse that led to the country’s dissolution in 1991. By Robert D. McFadden ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MOSCOW (AP) — The world held its breath 30 ...

Lithuania said Wednesday the Kremlin will ease its economic sanctions against the republic and that both sides are headed toward the start of negotiations on the Baltic secession crisis. Following a ...

Nikolai Ryzhkov, a premier of the Soviet Union who in 1990 took the brunt of the blame for economic chaos that engulfed the last years of communist rule, leading to the nation’s political collapse and ...