As the president of Russia, the largest nation among the 15 republics constituting the Soviet Union, Boris Yeltsin denounced the conservatives’ move as a coup ... Moscow last August at the ...

MOSCOW, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said that ignoring the Soviet Union's role in liberating Nazi German death camps such as Auschwitz and not inviting surviving family ...

Indeed there is reason to suspect that the real purpose in using them was less to force a Japanese defeat than to warn the Soviet Union to be amenable to American wishes in the construction of the ...

President Ronald Reagan is often credited with defeating the Soviet Union, in part by helping Afghan ... influence in Afghanistan. A communist coup in April 1978 toppled the government of ...

“It reveals that there was no attempt to ensnare the Soviet Union in the Afghan trap, and U.S. policies were in fact marginal in leading to the Soviet military intervention,” he said. What is not up ...

"The rise of junta rule in the Sahel represents a complex interplay between decolonization and destabilization." ...

The Russian leader often credits the Soviet Union with defeating Nazi Germany in his speeches, especially in the context of Russia's offensive in Ukraine. Putin has regularly accused Ukrainian ...

that was both groundbreaking and heartbreaking. On November 3rd, 1957, the Soviet Union made history by launching the first living creature into Earth’s orbit: not a human, but a dog.

He was 76. Still fresh in my memory is an image of Yeltsin on the eve of the collapse of the Soviet Union. During a failed coup staged by conservative hardliners in August 1991, Yeltsin climbed ...

Photo: Brandon Bell/Pool via Reuters To read the American press in recent months is to encounter a feeling reminiscent of the Soviet Union in 1988. At that time, the Communist Party was in the ...

The Russian president celebrated his 50th birthday at a winery in Moldova. After the invasion of Ukraine, it moved the bottles he was given away from public view. By Andrew Higgins Reporting from ...