This bird is an enduring symbol of Soviet resistance—and perseverance—during the darkest days of what Russians refer to as the “Great Patriotic War.” ...

With a fundamentally different playing field today, the United States and its Western partners should adapt, if not adopt, ...

Donald Trump’s telephone calls with Vladimir Putin hearken back to Franklin Roosevelt’s way of handling Joseph Stalin.

When the Indian prime minister visited the Soviet Union in 1985, he spent some time in smaller Soviet republics.

WASHINGTON – "See you in court." That was the one-sentence retort from a leading teachers union Wednesday following news that President Donald Trump planned to sign an executive order Thursday ...

Expect the unexpected. The Cold War empire of the Soviet Union took just four years to tumble into oblivion. And the entire Bronze Age civilisation of the Eastern Mediterranean went from thriving ...

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, who has died aged 93, believed that it was Soviet repression which made her so powerful and distinctive a composer, though it was only after the fall of Communism that she ...

Government employee unions have moved to court against the latest order and filed a motion in Washington DC federal court demanding to block the move. Citing Carr's email, the unions said that the ...

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 ...