In an authoritarian society, it’s free thinkers who are targeted by those in power. A book, a social media post, a private ...

But in the Soviet Era, beginning in 1952, Vladivostok was a closed military city, and the only people allowed in and out were ...

The Sukhoi Su-27 was developed as the Soviet Union’s answer to the American F-15 Eagle after Cold War intelligence failures ...

pt. I. The tsarist period. 1. Russian science before 1800. 2. Science in nineteenth-century Russia. 3. Russian intellectuals and Darwinism -- pt. II. Russian science and a Marxist revolution. 4. The ...

Julia Ioffe has created a riveting red history of the Soviet Union through a colourful cast of remarkable women: some of them ...

Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, voted on Sept. 19 to rename 327 settlements that had names related to the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union. Ukraine's parliament outlawed most Soviet and ...

The events that have been taking place in Europe since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 had never before occurred in the same cumulative fashion in the continent’s history. First, led by the ...

The Kremlin mothballed Admiral Kuznetsov, ending a refit that began more than seven years ago. Russia is the only permanent ...

Russia's economy will be under major strain in 2025, economists told BI. One said stagnation was similar to the USSR at the ...

At first Russia downplayed the impact of the sanctions and turned its economy into wartime mode. Sensitive to civilian attitudes towards the war, the government sought to keep the stores full and the ...

Russia's pipeline gas exports to Europe sank by 44% in 2025 to their lowest since the mid-1970s, following the closure of the ...