As Belarus votes amid repression, what drives Alexander Lukashenko, the president likely to secure a seventh term.

Russian, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko casts himself as a plain-spoken strongman and "president of the ordinary ...

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

When the young Finnish woman left her home country in the 1930s, she was headed for Stalin's Soviet ... Union being a workers' paradise". Her memoir, Private Diaries from 1930s Soviet Russia ...

The Russian leader often credits the Soviet Union with defeating Nazi Germany in his speeches, especially in the context of Russia's offensive in Ukraine. Putin has regularly accused Ukrainian ...

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia and Iran found common ground in viewing the U.S. as a mutual adversary. In 1997, then-Foreign Ministers Evgeny Primakov and Ali Velayati called for ...

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko is all but certain to extend his more than three decades in power in ...

Tartous and Khmeimim are Moscow’s only military outposts outside the former Soviet Union. Russia’s foreign ministry said there had been a “frank discussion of the entire range of issues ...

27 (UPI) --The European Union will moved forward with a renewal on Russian sanctions after a deal ... supporters marked the 80th recognition of Soviet Union soldiers liberating Auschwitz on ...

Some of the Barbados ships have already been re-registered with other nations including Tanzania and São Tomé and Príncipe.