By the end of the year Gorbachev had resigned and the Soviet Union was no more. Dina Newman has spoken to the former President of Belorussia, Stanislav Shushkevich, and the former President of ...
"The Soviet Union took on the West and lost," he said ... Meanwhile, defense spending will make up 32.5% of its federal budget, up from 28.3% in 2024. Sikorski said Russia under Putin "has ...
In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself ...
If you're alarmed as I am by the new president's first actions in office, the Soviet dissident Alexander Esenin-Volpin has ...
Each story uncovered the many layers that make up a building – from its initial ... divided between Poland and the Soviet Union, and finally declared its independence in 1991.
We're not the old Soviet Union. 'What we have the power to do is to encourage competition and encouraging new entrants.' Albanese said a forcible break-up would lead to many workers losing their jobs.
Show more December 1991 saw the end of 70 years of communist rule and the collapse of the Soviet Union. We hear from two ... nuclear expert who helped clean-up the former USSR.