RUSSIA: Two-thirds of the citizens of ex-Soviet nations believe life was better under communism, a poll by the Sputnik website showed yesterday. In nine of the 11 countries polled, an average of 64 ...

The oligarch Vagit Alekperov is Russia's official richest man after being behind the country's biggest oil company.

Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences as a ...

Russia has had battlefield momentum but its recent territorial gains have been at the expense of high personnel losses.

embittered by their experience under the Bolshevist domination and not crushed completely by the realities of life in Russia, are seeking every means possible for the overthrow of the Soviet ...

As of December 30, 2024, 427,000 Russian soldiers died or were injured in the war in 2024, according to Ukraine’s ...

On November 3rd, 1957, the Soviet Union made history by launching the first living creature into Earth’s orbit: not a human, ...

Before the fall of the Iron Curtain and subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union during the ... mostly schmaltzy Russian pop hits of the 1970s and 1980s. Interestingly, there's a display of bootleg ...

Rivkin’s life is a great American story. He was born in the city of Pskov in what was then the Soviet Union ... to David and Henry Kissinger discuss Russian foreign policy over lunch.