Explainer-What is the history of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan?
Armenia and Azerbaijan were locked in conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh for nearly four decades after the Soviet Union they were ...
Will the US collapse like the Soviet Union did?
"You're next," said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union's collapse in late 1991. I was an ...
Trump Compared to Soviet Secret Police By Former Anti-Communist Political Prisoners: 'Shocked Zelenskyy Treated in the Same Way'
Former prisoners of the Soviet Union's communist regime have written a letter addressing Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy ...
OTD In Space – March 9: Soviet Union Launches Dummy, Dog And Guinea Pig Into Space
On March 9, 1961, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 9. This mission was a test flight of the Vostok spacecraft, which would ...
Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion who lost famed Cold War-era match to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
At the time of their famous match, the Soviet Union had compiled an unbroken streak of world chess championships that ...
Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion and Cold War symbol, dies at 88
His 1972 match against American Bobby Fischer is considered one of the most famous duels in the history of the game as well ...
What is the history of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan?
Armenia and Azerbaijan were locked in conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh for nearly four decades after the Soviet Union they were ...
Daily Quiz | On countries that were part of the Soviet Union
Lithuania became the first country to declare independence from the Soviet Union on March 11, 1991. Here is a quiz on ...