May 9, 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945, the most important and ...

Growing up in the former Soviet Union, Pedro Spivakovsky-Gonzalez’s father and grandparents would listen to Voice of America ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, however, has since 1999 made reestablishing influence over Russia’s “near abroad” a ...

Leaders of 27 nations joined Russian President Vladimir Putin in celebrating the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in the Second World War. Addressing the Victory Day ...

Not to mention that the countries which featured in these maps were often doing their damnedest to hide such information from the Soviets. In his book The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly ...

At the time, most family houses were comprised ... the brief break from Soviet control during the Prague Spring, before it was crushed in August 1968 when the Soviet Union and its allies invaded.