Between 1929 and 1953, over 18 million people passed through the Soviet Gulags. They were sentenced for "crimes" as small as ...

The click of a mouse now dissolves a marriage in Estonia. In a country where citizens can start businesses, pay taxes, and ...

The Nordic country has a network of underground shelters unmatched in the West and the largest number of reservists in the ...

The Znamya project had the potential to change the world. The BBC's Tomorrow's World reported on an experiment that was ...

Rock music was placed under heavy restrictions in the USSR during the Cold War, but, in 1988, the regime allowed Bon Jovi to ...

Stretching back to WWII, the history of Russian jet development is intertwined with that of the United States. Here are the ...

Here's the standard high school history class summary of the Soviet Union: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was ...

Suzanne Massie, an American author and informal adviser to President Ronald Reagan on Soviet affairs, passed away on January 26 at the age of 94 in H ...

The campaign in Britain against nuclear weapons is beginning to turn towards the working class. As it does so, it will create ...

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

WITH ruthless ambition, suspense and even spies, hit movie Conclave lays bare the fight to succeed as a new Pope. The ...

`Solidarity` feels the full text of the leaflet distributed (in Russian) at the recent World Disarmament Congress in Moscow, should go on record, in view of the widespread repercussions (and ...