25 YEARS LATER: 7 SHOCKWAVES FROM BREAKUP OF SOVIET UNION

The Soviet Union broke up without a civil war, thank God, says Yevgeny Roizman, 54, a historian and mayor of Yekaterinburg, Russia's third-largest city, which borders Siberia... READ MORE›

CRIMEANS BACK RUSSIAN TAKEOVER: IF THEY TRY TO TAKE IT BACK, I WILL FIGHT

There is popular support for Russian President Vladimir Putin's plans to build a bridge across the Kerch Strait to integrate Crimea with mainland Russia... READ MORE›

TRUMP APPEARS CONFUSED ON ISSUE OF RUSSIA IN UKRAINE

He's not going into Ukraine, O.K., just so you understand, Mr. Trump, the Republican nominee, said when the issue came up... READ MORE›

WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE MISS THE SOVIET UNION?

Russia will mark the 25th anniversary of the Soviet Union's dissolution at the end of the year... READ MORE›

ISLAMIC BATTALIONS STOCKED WITH CHECHENS AID UKRAINE IN WAR WITH REBELS

In Ukraine, the Dzhokhar Dudayev and Sheikh Mansur units are mostly Chechen, but they include Muslims from other former Soviet areas, such as Uzbeks and Balkars... READ MORE›

IN 1983 WAR SCARE, SOVIET LEADERSHIP FEARED NUCLEAR SURPRISE ATTACK BY U.S.

In 1983 we may have inadvertently placed our relations with the Soviet Union on a hair trigger the review concluded... READ MORE›

PUTIN SAYS RUSSIA BEEFING UP NUCLEAR ARSENAL, NATO DENOUNCES 'SABER-RATTLING'

Putin made his comments a day after Russian officials denounced a U.S... READ MORE›

CLOSE MILITARY ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE WEST AT COLD WAR LEVELS

Black Sea encounter On 7 September, the Canadian frigate Toronto was buzzed by a Russian aircraft in the Black Sea with the plane coming within 300 metres... READ MORE›

POLISH LEADERS HAIL ARRIVAL OF U.S. TROOPS

We waited for decades' Polish leaders hail arrival of U.S. troops... READ MORE›

IN UKRAINE, GOOGLE TRANSLATES RUSSIA AS 'MORDOR' AND TOP DIPLOMAT'S NAME AS 'SAD LITTLE HORSE'

At least one major Ukrainian news outlet, Ukrainska Pravda, uses Google Translate to switch its entire site into Russian as its articles are published online... READ MORE›

'NAZI GOLD TRAIN' FOUND IN POLAND COULD BELONG TO RUSSIA AS COMPENSATION FOR WW2

Nazi 'gold train' Treasure could be claimed by Russia as compensation for Second World War... READ MORE›

SOVIET LEADER GORBACHEV SAYS A NEW UNION COULD RISE AGAIN

Gorbachev may well have a rose-tinted view of the Soviet Union, but many in Russia feel the same... READ MORE›

BUK MISSILE DOWNED MH17 IN UKRAINE

Dutch report Buk missile downed MH17 in Ukraine... READ MORE›

NATO CONSIDERS SENDING 4,000 TROOPS TO RUSSIAN BORDERS

And it would be designed to communicate to the Russians that Nato is serious it will defend Nato territory... READ MORE›

SEMYONOVKA JOURNAL UKRAINE BAN ON RUSSIAN SYMBOLS FUELS FIGHT OVER NATIONAL IDENTITY

One of the largest Lenin statues in Ukraine, in the city of Kharkiv, was dismembered... READ MORE›

BRITAIN'S RUSSOPHOBIC HAWKS SHOULD BE CAST BACK TO SWINGING 60S IF WE WANT NEW EAST-WEST DETENTE

It's worth pointing out that at this time it wasn't just left-wingers like Wilson who supported improved relations with the Soviet Union... READ MORE›

RUSSIA'S VLADIMIR PUTIN TAKES DIVE IN SUBMERSIBLE IN CRIMEA

On March 16, 2014, Crimea held a referendum on whether to continue as part of Ukraine or to cast its lot with the Russian Federation... READ MORE›

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV ACCUSES US OF STOKING 'NEW COLD WAR'

The agreement comes three months after a Russian and European brokered ceasefire agreement was signed in Minsk... READ MORE›

Putin is under Satan's influence leader of Kiev Orthodox Church... READ MORE›

IT SHOOK THE WORLD THEN IT FAILED

For some, the Soviet Union was always beyond criticism - the cause transcended the crimes... READ MORE›

REBEL-HELD UKRAINE OVERHAULS EDUCATION SYSTEM AS IT ALIGNS ITSELF WITH RUSSIA

Russia's five-point grading system now also takes precedence over Ukraine's 12-point scheme... READ MORE›

WORLD FACING ARMAGEDDON UNLESS OBAMA AND PUTIN 'DEFROST' ICY RELATIONSHIP

Russian elder statesman Mikhail Gorbachev today warned of the threat of Armageddon if Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin fail to rapidly 'defrost' their icy relations... READ MORE›

NOW UKRAINE'S DELUSIONAL POLITICIANS SAY SOVIET UNION STARTED WW2

Now Ukraine's delusional politicians say Soviet Union started WW2 -- RT Op-Edge... READ MORE›

'LIGHTS GOING OUT ON JEWISH COMMUNITY IN UKRAINE' - UKRAINIAN JEWISH COMMITTEE HEAD

Jewish identity in Ukraine is under threat and in danger of disappearing completely, Eduard Dolinsky, executive director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, told an Israeli newspaper... READ MORE›

WHEN WILL RUSSIA STOP TRYING TO RE-WRITE HISTORY?

Even though a quarter of a century has passed since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian sensibilities have hardly changed... READ MORE›

JOURNALIST IN UKRAINE IS KILLED IN CAR BOMBING

In Russia, Mr. Sheremet had worked for ORT, a leading state-owned television station... READ MORE›

UKRAINE PICKS CRIMEAN TATAR WITH TRAGIC TALE FOR EUROVISION

Memories of that horror have been revived by Russia's seizure of Crimea, a Black Sea peninsula, in 2014... READ MORE›

PHOTOGRAPHER DAVID DE RUEDA CAPTURES IMAGES OF ABANDONED COLD WAR ERA BUILDINGS

Close encounters of a soviet kind photographer captures other-worldly images of abandoned cold war era buildings in europe... READ MORE›

WORLD BRIEFING 2 ACCUSED OF BEING RUSSIAN SOLDIERS APPEAR IN COURT IN UKRAINE

Russian defense officials have denied that either was a serving member of the military when captured in Ukraine's Luhansk region... READ MORE›

DAILY REALITY OF EAST'S 'FROZEN WAR'

The pro-Russian authorities in Donetsk blame Ukraine for the continuing fighting... READ MORE›