The following year, Gorbachev announced the Soviet Union would unilaterally withdraw 5,000 Soviet tanks and other offensive weaponry from East Europe. This enabled the 1990 Treaty on Conventional ...

Putin is repeating a Soviet-era mistake, which is ruining Russia's economy, Poland's foreign minister said. Speaking at Davos, Radoslaw Sikorski said Putin was overspending on the military and ...

How a myth about the collapse of the Soviet Union leads Republicans astray on China. Skip to content. Current Issue ... the two leaders signed the first arms control accord to abolish an entire class ...

The Soviet Union was intent to crash a craft into the moon - and at the same time gain a political punch by delivering metallic pennants with the U.S.S.R.'s coat of arms onto the lunar surface.

Soviet coats of arms are being dismantled in Riga. 15.12.2023. Photo: Kora27 / commons.wikimedia.org (CC-BY-SA-4.0) Riga continues to struggle with the legacy of the Soviet era, reports the BALTNEWS ...

Ukraine replaced the Soviet Union hammer and sickle on the shield of its massive Motherland Monument with the national trident coat of arms.

Ukraine has replaced the Soviet emblem that once adorned one of the nation’s most recognisable landmarks with the country’s coat of arms. The symbolic move is part of a wider shift throughout ...

The towering Mother Ukraine statue in Kyiv had its Soviet hammer and sickle replaced Sunday by Ukraine’s trident coat of arms. ... Motherland monument” when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union.

But now, instead of the hammer-and-sickle emblem, the shield features the Ukrainian tryzub, the trident that was adopted as the coat of arms of independent Ukraine on February 19, 1992.

Workers install the Ukrainian coat of arms on the shield in the hand of the country's tallest stature, the Motherland Monument, after the Soviet coat of arms was removed, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday ...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The towering Mother Ukraine statue in Kyiv — one of the nation’s most recognizable landmarks — lost its hammer-and-sickle symbol on Sunday as officials replaced the ...

“Together with the coat of arms, we’ve disposed the markers of our belonging to the ‘post-Soviet space’. We are not ‘post-’, but sovereign, independent and free Ukraine.” Save ...