Here's the standard high school history class summary of the Soviet Union: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a communist state from 1922 to 1991 and was a big rival of the US from ...

The executive order explicitly notes that the policy aims to achieve what was left unfinished by Reagan’s Strategic Defense ...

Courtesy Andy Cochrane Misha Margiani lashed his worn winter boots to the wooden planks as tightly as he could. It was 1998, ...

Ethel Blythe Penningroth, born in Williamsburg on Jan. 13, 1897, lived on a farm east of Iowa City in 1956. She was a homemaker and a lifelong poet who also took time to write letters to children from ...

As Ukraine's line of defense grows thin, this unit is using a modernized Soviet-era vehicle to stop Russian forces from ...

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for over 30 years, is poised to extend his rule ...

A newly declassified analysis argued against “shock therapy” for the former Soviet Union. The warning wasn’t heeded.

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko is all but certain to extend his more than three decades in power in ...

A closer look at recently declassified MI5 files on the intelligence failure surrounding the five "Cambrdige spies" ...

Many people who have studied what’s been released so far say the public shouldn’t anticipate any earth-shattering revelations ...

It already appears evident that the days of Russia serving as its leading arms supplier have come to an ignominious end.