Born in the USSR, Kristina Kushnir immigrated to America where she became an economics professor. Now, she reflects on her early life.

Argentine police have arrested Russian national Konstantin Rudnev, leader of the Ashram Shambala sect. Founded back in the Soviet Union, Rudnev referred to himself as "an alien from Sirius" and ...

Novosibirsk is Russia’s third largest city ... which was founded in 1957 as an incubator for science and the engine of the Soviet Union’s technological race with the West.

The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets called their first atomic test "First Lightning." ...

Russia’s largest modelling school is in Novosibirsk. It’s a unique breeding ... citizens from different republics of the former Soviet Union. Anna is a scout. She discovers new talents for ...

"You're next," said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union's collapse in late 1991. I was an American student in St. Petersburg, and he was referring to the United States.

The Soviet Union was plunged into a power struggle among Stalin’s inner circle following the demise of the man who had led the USSR for nearly three decades. Khrushchev, emerging as a key player ...

Sofia Gubaidulina, 2021. She was part of a group of important composers in the Soviet Union, including Arvo Pärt, Alfred Schnittke and Edison Denisov, who found disfavor with the authorities but ...

"The City of Tomorrow" is an ongoing research and exhibition project on the life and afterlife of the Soviet city. This website serves ... Minsk, Moscow, and Novosibirsk in 2019/20.

After the shock of Stalin’s death in 1953, a sense of hope enveloped the Soviet Union, bringing a desire for more civil liberties and an end to fear. Nikita Khrushchev emerged as the new ...

Russia’s largest modelling school is in Novosibirsk. It’s a unique breeding ... citizens from different republics of the former Soviet Union. Anna is a scout. She discovers new talents for ...