Local authorities in Osh, Kyrgyzstan’s second city, said Lenin’s removal was for purely aesthetic reasons; they would ...

Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Solovyov appeared to lament the break up of the Soviet Union during a recent broadcast.. The anchor of an evening show on the Russia 1 state TV channel that bears his ...

Russian officers with Soviet and Russian flags during the Victory Day Parade at Red Square on May 9, 2022 in Moscow, Russia. Guests on the Russia state TV discussed the Soviet Union's achievements ...

The first child of African-American parents ever born in the Soviet Union, Yosif Stalin Kim Roane, is among the few living offspring of those who traveled to the Soviet Union in the 1920s and ...

The collapse of the Soviet Union returned freedom to many nations and ended the communist rule over millions. The aftermath of its collapse shapes Vladimir Putin’s vision, as well as his ...

Russia can mobilize for war on a scale comparable to the Soviet Union during World War II if necessary, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on April 30. "If a great country needs to stand up ...

The Komsomol was a youth division (ages 14 to 28) of the Communist Party during theSoviet Union. The Higher Komsomol School trained future leaders, teachers, and party workers, offering degrees in ...

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev closes his resignation speech after delivering it at the Kremlin in Moscow on Dec. 25, 1991. After 74 years, the Soviet Union was dissolved, breaking into 15 countries.

The Soviet Union, under President Mikhail Gorbachev, used economic and political pressure to try to thwart the bid to end nearly a half-century of rule from Moscow, which had annexed the Baltic ...

A rose-colored view of a Soviet Union globally respected, thriving and content has become part of Mr. Putin’s ideology in the war, driving a nostalgia for empire that the Kremlin’s propaganda ...

The last leader of the Soviet Union has died at the age of 91. ... 1991, the hammer and sickle, the red banner of the disintegrating Soviet Union, is lowered for the less time over the Kremlin.