This week, the conflict reached its 1,418th day, the same number of days the Soviet Union's Red Army fought against Nazi ...

On Nov. 7, 1992, exactly 75 years after the Bolshevik Revolution, a yellow minibus with a fading “Baltic Tours” sign pulled ...

Russia and Ukraine have expanded their use of TM-62 anti-tank landmines, adapting them into drone-dropped munitions and improvised assault charges across the battlefield.

Three years. 10 months. 18 days.As of January 12, that’s the amount of time that’s elapsed since Russia launched its all-out ...

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On 20 January every year Azerbaijanis pay tribute to those who died in a bloody massacre committed by the former USSR against ...

Countless words will be dedicated in the following days to Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who died Aug. 30 at the age of 91. But throughout his obituaries, two specific words will likely be ...

"I have been worrying about Russia and the United States getting into a Nuculear (sic) war . . . Are you going to vote to have a war or not?" wrote young Samantha Smith in a letter to the new Soviet ...

The World Socialist Web Site recently spoke with Stephen Wheatcroft, professorial fellow of Russian and Soviet history at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Wheatcroft is one of the world’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Putin is repeating a Soviet-era mistake, which is ruining Russia's economy, Poland's foreign minister said. Speaking at Davos, ...

Let us paint the scene for you. The day is September 1st, 1939, in the Soviet Union, and you're a middle-management engineer working at the Kharkiv Locomotive Factory in Ukraine. While a particular ...

Some misunderstandings can be remedied by a simple explanation. Others end friendships or marriages. The most frightening miscommunications are those between nuclear-armed superpowers. In October, ...