The Soviet Union became a gerontocracy in its final years, contributing to its collapse. Historians say it's a cautionary tale for the US, whose leaders have been in power for decades. One Soviet ...

When the Turkmenistan government announced new streamlined visa regulations in April, people familiar with traveling to the Central Asian nation were unsure what to make of it. Not that there are many ...

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While Russian President Vladimir Putin's army loses ground, troops and equipment in the Ukraine war, four other former members of the Soviet Union are locked in conflicts of their own, which could ...

China said it “respects” the independence of the former Soviet Union states and that its position is “unchanged,” after the nation’s diplomat to France sparked a firestorm in Europe by questioning ...

The Chinese Embassy in France removed a transcript of a controversial interview in which its ambassador questioned the independence of former Soviet Union states, remarks that generated anger across ...

Several leaders in former Soviet states, including Ukraine, were quick to hit back following the interview, which aired Friday on French station LCI. Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics called ...

A routine TV interview has sent waves of anger and suspicion through Europe, undermining China's efforts to position itself as a neutral peace broker and diplomatic rival to the U.S. Beijing appeared ...