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 ...
Russia is willing to work with Donald Trump's incoming administration to improve relations if the U.S. has serious intentions ...
Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences as a ...
After Moscow hit Ukraine with a nuclear-capable missile — and threatened atomic war with the West — Ukraine's ex-president is ...
Buran launched at a difficult time for the Soviet Union. Just a few years later, in 1991, the Communist government fell and the nation broke up into several countries. The program itself was put ...
The Ukrainian government has set up a task group to examine Ukraine’s legal succession of the Soviet property that went to Russia in full volume after the Soviet Union break-up. “We’ll go to ...
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.