Retired general Ben Hodges drew a comparison between Russia and the Soviet Union, warning we should be prepared for the ...

What went awry? Putin is the main culprit for Russia’s return to authoritarianism, aggression and hostility to the West. But ...

John Simpson visits Russia's neighbour Latvia for a special episode of Unspun World where he reflects on how the collapse of the Soviet Union has shaped Putin’s Russia. With BBC experts in the region, ...

As historian Vladislav Zubok writes in his new book “Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union”, previous guests had included Cuban president Fidel Castro and the East German communist leader ...

It already appears evident that the days of Russia serving as its leading arms supplier have come to an ignominious end.

While George F Kennan, the architect of US Containment policy, lived beyond 100 years to see his strategy succeed, it was Carter who laid the foundation of the actual collapse of the Soviet Union.