Scientists left the research station, which is in an abandoned village, soon after the Soviet Union's collapse over three ...

This video explains why the Soviet Union—once a nuclear superpower ruling nearly 300 million people—collapsed so suddenly in 1991. It traces the arc from post-WWII dominance and the Cold War standoffs ...

Documents show desperate final Soviet leader fighting to retain power. Aug. 13, 2011 — -- Communist hardliners staged a coup against Mikhail Gorbachev 20 years ago, and the Soviet Union collapsed ...

Vladimir Putin's most recent rhetoric once again spotlights the degree to which the Russian president is driven by resentment over the Soviet Union's collapse. The 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union ...

Russia's central bank has warned Kremlin policymakers that the United States and OPEC are capable of flooding the oil market. This move could provoke a repeat of the protracted price collapse of the ...

While 1991 is often given as the end of the Cold War, the truth is that the Cold War never ended; it just paused before ...

MINSK, 25 June (BelTA) – After the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO's existence was no longer justified, historian Yevgeny Spitsyn said in the latest episode of the V Teme [On Point] project on ...

ANASEULI, Georgia (Reuters) -When Lika Megreladze was a child, life in her native western Georgian region of Guria revolved around tea. Her mother worked for decades as a scientist at the Soviet Union ...

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 ...