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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›
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›
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›
MOVE OLYMPICS OVER ZIKA CALL REJECTED
The World Health Organization WHO has rejected a call to move or postpone this summer's Rio Olympic Games over the Zika outbreak... READ MORE›
NORTH AND SOUTH KOREAN GYMNASTS POSE FOR OLYMPIC SELFIE
North and South Korea gymnasts at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games have shown the world a brief moment of unity, in the form of a selfie... 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›
'NO TO THE GAMES OF CONCRETE'
Rome is set to drop its bid to host the Olympic Games in 2024, after its anti-establishment mayor said it would be irresponsible to be a candidate... 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›
FINANCIAL CALAMITY DECLARED IN RIO WEEKS BEFORE OLYMPICS, BUT GAMES WILL GO ON
On Friday morning, Rio state Finance Minister Julio Bueno said that if the state were a company, it would enter into judicial recovery... READ MORE›
WOMEN'S WORLD CUP 2015 UNITED STATES VS. GERMANY
1 Germany in the semifinal of the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup on Tuesday June 30 at Olympic Stadium in Montreal... READ MORE›
RIO OLYMPICS: BRAZIL WEIGHS JIHADI THREATS
Brazil's intelligence agency said it was reviewing all threats against the Rio 2016 Games after a jihadi messaging channel called for its followers to target the Olympics... READ MORE›
FEMALE GYMNAST MAKES OLYMPIC HISTORY AT SEVENTH GAMES
Uzbekistan's Oksana Chusovitina is making history at the Rio Olympics as the oldest Olympic female gymnast in history... READ MORE›
DISCOVERY GAINS EUROPEAN RIGHTS TO 4 OLYMPICS
Discovery paid 1.3 billion euros or about 1.45 billion for the rights to four Olympic Games... READ MORE›
THE QUIET VOICES SAYING 'NO' TO PARIS'S OLYMPIC BID
When the mayor was elected, she was opposed to holding the Olympic Games in Paris, he said... READ MORE›
WILL THE OLYMPICS HAPPEN? 3 MAJOR CONCERNS
That affects mosquito populations, including that of the Aedes aegypti, the mosquito that carries the Zika virus... READ MORE›
RUSSIANS STILL REGRET USSR COLLAPSE, BUT BELIEVE RESTORATION UNREALISTIC
As years go by our citizens get firmer in their opinion that the Soviet Union could have been saved... READ MORE›
THE OTHER TIME MOSCOW WENT TO FIGHT FOR AN EMBATTLED ARAB LEADER
However, like many conflicts of the era, the Soviet Union played a role, too... READ MORE›
WHO REJECTS CALL FOR OLYMPICS TO BE MOVED DUE TO ZIKA
The WHO's advice is that pregnant women should not travel to areas with Zika virus transmission, including Rio de Janeiro... READ MORE›
MEET YOSIF STALIN, A CHILD OF THE USSR LIVING IN KREMLIN, VIRGINIA
'Nobody calls me Stalin' Yosif was not the first child of an African-American to be born in the Soviet Union... READ MORE›
U.N. HEALTH AGENCY REJECTS RIO OLYMPICS POSTPONEMENT CALL OVER ZIKA
Based on the current assessment of the virus worldwide, WHO said, there is no public health justification for postponing or canceling the Games... READ MORE›
COC SETS UP COMMITTEE TO HELP CALGARY EXPLORE POSSIBLE OLYMPIC BID
The Canadian Olympic Committee has set up a special committee to help Calgary explore a possible bid for the 2026 Winter Olympics... READ MORE›
IOC INSISTS GAMES WILL GO AHEAD DESPITE ZIKA
Dr Budgett was responding to a call by Canadian health Professor Amir Attaran for the Games to be postponed or moved... READ MORE›
PUTIN SAYS RUSSIA WILL ADD OVER 40 MISSILES TO NUCLEAR ICBM ARSENAL
Has had heavy military equipment -- including battle tanks -- in newer NATO members that were once under Moscow's influence as part of the Soviet Union... READ MORE›
TOKYO TOWER TO SHINE IN SOCCER TEAM'S COLORS FOR WORLD CUP
The world champions will face the Olympic champion and 2011 World Cup runners-up in Vancouver on Monday at 8 a.m... READ MORE›
CHERNOBYL: TIMELINE OF A NUCLEAR NIGHTMARE
4 at Chernobyl's nuclear power station in the former Soviet Union... READ MORE›
SHAUNAE MILLER'S 'DIVE' THAT DENIED ALLYSON FELIX GOLD DIVIDES TWITTER
The Bahamian athlete left her feet in the final yards of the race, beating U.S. track star Allyson Felix by 0.07 seconds... READ MORE›
WORLD'S LARGEST PLANE TOUCHES DOWN IN AUSTRALIA
Perth Airport spokeswoman Fiona Lander explained the reasoning behind the layovers... READ MORE›
DARTMOUTH CANOEIST EXCITED WOMEN'S CANOEING MAY BE IN 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES
Women's canoeing may be added to 2020 Olympic Games... READ MORE›
'BRAZIL'S EXASPERATION WITH GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION THREATENS TO OVERSHADOW RIO OLYMPICS'
Heavy clashes erupted in Rio de Janeiro on Friday at the time of the Olympic Games Opening Ceremony... READ MORE›