In his 2005 speech, Vladimir Putin’s statement that ‘the collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical ...

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, ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) announced on January 30 that Romania "firmly" supports the sovereignty, territorial ...

The two Russian figure skating coaches killed in the American Airlines crash were two-time Olympians and former world ...

The former head of Ukraine’s military intelligence recalls how thousands of tactical nuclear weapons were removed from its arsenals by the Russian military.

An often overlooked feature of the Soviet Union and its Eastern Bloc states' cultural character, we select five bands from ...

Moscow is anxious to maintain its strategically important military assets in the country, which hosts its only bases outside ...

A newly declassified analysis argued against “shock therapy” for the former Soviet Union. The warning wasn’t heeded.

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for over 30 years, is poised to extend his rule ...

First came the collapse of the Soviet Union, then an economic crisis and now the Russian invasion: Ukraine's population has ...

Poland's foreign minister said Putin used to criticize the Soviet approach that helped bankrupt it, but now he's repeating ...