By the end of the year Gorbachev had resigned and the Soviet Union was no more. Dina Newman has spoken to the former President of Belorussia, Stanislav Shushkevich, and the former President of ...

"The Soviet Union took on the West and lost," he said ... Meanwhile, defense spending will make up 32.5% of its federal budget, up from 28.3% in 2024. Sikorski said Russia under Putin "has ...

In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself ...

The cut-off of Russian gas supplies to Moldova's breakaway Transdniestria region has forced the closure of all industrial companies except food producers, an official said on Thursday.

Among other things, the Cold War was replete with examples of the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics attempting to one-up each ... pairing to break the sound ...

Show more December 1991 saw the end of 70 years of communist rule and the collapse of the Soviet Union. We hear from two ... nuclear expert who helped clean-up the former USSR.

"The Soviet Union took on the West and lost," he said. Sikorski said that Putin "is on the record saying that under Brezhnev, the Soviet Union overspent on the military and bankrupted the country." He ...