Vladimir Putin’s endless war in Ukraine is plunging Russia back into the darkest days of the Soviet Union. As the economy ...

In 1990, National Geographic went to the Soviet Union to report on one of the worst environmental disasters of the 20th ...

A resurfaced interview of Google co-founder Sergey Brin detailed his dramatic journey from the Soviet Union to Silicon Valley ...

He was imprisoned for calling attention to the practice of declaring dissidents mentally ill. He later led efforts to ...

Prime Minister Mark Carney is headed to Armenia on Saturday for a visit his office says is framed around Ukraine’s defence ...

During one very unusual Cold War drill, a Soviet Su-7 Fitter attack jet delivered a live tactical nuclear weapon in an end-to ...

On the facade of an apartment block in Tajikistan's capital Dushanbe, a giant mosaic depicting cosmonauts and engineers ...

On April 26, 1986, Soviet engineers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant were conducting a safety test. Doomed by a fatal ...

The 1986 nuclear disaster in Chernobyl — now known by its Ukrainian spelling of Chornobyl — has echoes today during a violent ...

Forty years ago, the world’s worst nuclear power disaster exploded into history at the Soviet Union’s Chornobyl nuclear plant ...

NOTE: This post largely reprints last year's Victims of Communism Day post, with some modifications. Today is May ...

Works by the abstract Russian artist will go on show in "Bending Time", the first show at Prokofiev Studio in London.