It’s been 33 years now since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 into 15 separate countries. And what a ride it’s been. The West has reaped the fruits of the USSR’s loss, expanding NATO to ...

Europe Georgian PM praises country's protest crackdown despite US condemnation The former Soviet Union republic is reverting back to a pro-Russian path, according to the United States and European ...

Some places are very strict when it comes to the power of music, and they are quick to ban anything that they think could ...

In an account that reads more like a spy thriller than a political history, British author Charlie English recounts the story of how the CIA smuggled books behind the Iron Curtain ...

Russia’s education minister on Wednesday accused fellow former Soviet republics of presenting what Moscow deems to be a ...

Since then the Islamic Republic of Iran has vowed to end U.S. imperialism and eradicate Israel. Now, the United States and ...

The Olympic Games showcase global athletic talent every four years. The United States leads with over 3,100 medals, followed ...

National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear on May 25, 1961, when American President John F. Kennedy announced that his ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu consistently claimed Iran was months away from becoming a nuclear power and that it ...

Bhutan, the world’s happiest nation, was also the first one to impose a complete ban on tobacco and its products on10. On this day in 1963, the Soviet Union’s Valentina Tereshkova became the first wom ...

On 14 June 1941, the Soviet Union deported 10,000 people from Estonia to Siberia, among them over 7,000 women, children and the elderly.

The Soviet Union stretched across Asia and Europe and ruled more than 15 republics. ... The country, however, practices strict neutrality to keep itself out of conflicts. Kyrgyzstan.