On March 11, 1990, Lithuania became the first Soviet Republic to declare its independence from the Soviet Union. The U.S.S.R.

The crumbling of the Islamic Republic is on par with the end of the Soviet Union, says the once (and future?) MK, who pushes ...

On March 9, 1961, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 9. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] This mission was a ...

Analysis of U.S. defense spending, national debt, and the need for domestic reform to ensure national security.

Donald Trump is being drawn into the kind of proxy war with Russia that his predecessors have been trying to avoid since the Bay of Pigs. Vladimir Putin has outthought and outfought his so-called ...

Will Russia collapse? Analyzing the geographic and political issues facing Putin.

The Cold War is widely considered to have ended in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union. It appeared to mark the end of ...

Columnist Tom Lubnau writes, "In 2014, a Russian sound engineer named Leonid Vorobyev decided to give himself an unusual 60th birthday present. Instead ...

Seeing how people lived beyond the Iron Curtain made Tabarovsky dream of immigrating — an aspiration shared by many Jews in ...

A Dutchman, he was considered the best player outside the Soviet Union for two decades, although he described himself as “lazy” and was open about using alcohol and drugs early on.

The remarkable story of the Lada VAZ-2106 engine, a Soviet-era powerplant that powered cars for over five decades.