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, ...

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

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

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

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

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

as he drew a comparison with the collapse of the Soviet Union. He said: "I think almost everybody was surprised that the Soviet Union collapsed. It happens so suddenly. We were not prepared for ...

Why did the USSR collapse? In this video, we analyze the internal and external pressures that led to the Soviet Union's downfall. From economic stagnation to political unrest and the influence of ...

The Soviet Union's economy collapsed in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and it finally dissolved in 1991. Sikorski's comments echoed a warning by the managing director of the International ...

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

Animation specialist Hazegrayart put together a video of ten never-made Russian rockets and spacecraft, these are the first ...