followed shortly thereafter by the collapse of the Stalinist regimes in Eastern Europe, that culminated in December 1991 in the formal liquidation of the Soviet Union. The destruction of the ...

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

Show more December 1991 saw the end of 70 years of communist rule and the collapse of the Soviet Union. We hear from two of the key signatories of the dissolution treaty, a witness to the ensuing ...

While George F Kennan, the architect of US Containment policy, lived beyond 100 years to see his strategy succeed, it was Carter who laid the foundation of the actual collapse of the Soviet Union.

Some of the global conflicts stem from the vacuum left by the collapse of the USSR. In what ways has the Ukraine crisis ...

In 1991, the Soviet Union was dissolved following the collapse of its communist government. See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper, order back issues and use the historic Daily ...

After the unexpected collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, there was an urgent necessity to preserve the relations between Russia and Africa.

He is certain that the country could have survived even after the August 1991 government coup attempt ... far better than what followed the Soviet Union’s collapse in reality," Gorbachev said.

Estonia regained its independence in 1991 following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The replica tank was taken from a plinth on Tuesday morning and loaded on to a military trailer ahead of its ...

But he was unable to prevent the slow collapse of the union ... for the end of the Cold War in 1991 - a time of deep tensions between the Soviet Union and Western nations, including the US ...