In the final years of the USSR, a surge of defiance erupted across the republics. This rebellion wasn’t just resistance—it ...

Roald Sagdeev has already watched one scientific empire rot from the inside. When Sagdeev began his career, in 1955, science ...

EADaily, July 31st, 2025. Russian President Vladimir Putin understands that the idea of recreating the Soviet Union or the ...

The Soviet Union’s economy once stood as a symbol of strength and rapid progress. Under Stalin, the USSR industrialized at an unprecedented pace, rising from the ashes of the Russian Empire to become ...

Fifty years ago, Leonid Brezhnev, general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, achieved a long-desired ...

What Really Killed Soviet Union? Oil Shock? Red Empire just ran out of fuel, say growing number of experts. By Andrew Nikiforuk, 13 Mar 2013, TheTyee.ca ...

THE HEAT IS ON: Russia faces a dilemma — while it contributes to global warming through fossil fuels, Siberia is heating up ...

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, left, chats with U.S. president Ronald Reagan at the White House on the first day of their disarmament summit, Dec. 8, 1987. The last leader of the Soviet Union ...