Evgeny Velikhov's many accomplishments in reducing the threat from nuclear weapons—during and after the Cold War—are ...

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a series of reforms and the Communist Party gave up its 70-year monopoly of political power in the Soviet Union.

In the 1930s, the Soviet government decided it wanted to build a perfect modern industrial city. Magnitogorsk would be a fully realized socialist utopia that could revolutionize the economy of the ...

To the dissidents of the Soviet Union, that question was so relevant that it became a famous and ironic toast. Supposedly introduced to dissident circles in the early 1970s by Naum Korzhavin ...

The flow of electricity between the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and Russia has been officially severed.

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Discover the Tselinny Center, Kazakhstan's first independent cultural institution, transforming Soviet cinema into a modern creative hub.

Indeed there is reason to suspect that the real purpose in using them was less to force a Japanese defeat than to warn the Soviet Union to be amenable to American wishes in the construction of the ...

The agents, Trenwith S. Basford and Mark A. Kirkland, had been surveilling a University of Minnesota professor who was spying for the Soviet Union, it was first revealed in the 2000 book ...

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"It's a Soviet-made BMP-1TS that's been modernized." Keeping full names secret is common protocol for Ukrainian soldiers. NPR agreed to use only their first names or call signs for security reasons.