The head of Rossotrudnichestvo, Russia’s international assistance agency, has an ambitious plan for the Kremlin soft-power ...

When People's Republic of China decided to enter the Korean War, it's air force was a little more than a year old. Chinese leadership still estimated that their ground component was decisive and the ...

The Soviet-Afghan War raged for nine years and is considered a major part of the overarching Cold War between the US and its ...

The Soviet Union stretched across Asia and Europe and ruled more than 15 republics. Unfortunately, the era of centralized control came crashing down in 1991. This resulted in redrawn borders and ...

Two weeks before the Baltic’s three former Soviet republics are to cut their Stalin-era electricity ties to Moscow, a ship damaged yesterday an undersea fiber optic cable between Latvia and Sweden.

However, the economic and political situation in the former Soviet republics themselves remains fraught, in large part because Russia still considers these countries to be its own sphere of influence.

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 col… ...