In 1954, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev approved the transfer of Crimea from the Russian Soviet Republic to the Ukrainian ...

Russia’s education minister on Wednesday accused fellow former Soviet republics of presenting what Moscow deems to be a distorted and overly negative portrayal of the Soviet Union and Russia in their ...

Two weeks before the Baltic’s three former Soviet republics are to cut their Stalin-era electricity ties to Moscow, a ship damaged yesterday an undersea fiber optic cable between Latvia and Sweden.

When the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was created in 1917, many academic economists, including those in the United States, believed or claimed to believe that socialism—which entails ...