GULAG HISTORIAN ORDERED TO UNDERGO PSYCHIATRIC TESTING IN RUSSIA

Yuri A. Dmitriev was charged with possessing child pornography, but his real crime seems to have been documenting Stalins crimes... READ MORE›

MOSCOW SHOW SMASHES MYTH OF DRAB SOVIET DESIGN

With the fall of the Soviet Union, most factories and research institutes were privatised... READ MORE›

PUTIN OPENS FIRST SOVIET VICTIMS MEMORIAL

President Vladimir Putin has unveiled Russia's first monument to people killed in political repression under Communist dictator Joseph Stalin... READ MORE›

ANALYSIS | TRUMP CALLED THE NEWS MEDIA AN 'ENEMY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.' HERE'S A HISTORY OF THE TERM.

For foes of Joseph Stalin, being branded an enemy of the people was a death sentence... READ MORE›

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›

THREAT OF WAR MAY SOUND SCARIER THAN IT REALLY IS

North Koreas nuclear program is serious, but research on foreign threats and bellicose rhetoric suggests that Americans can hold off on building bomb shelters... 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›

BEFORE 'FAKE NEWS,' THERE WAS SOVIET 'DISINFORMATION'

The Patriot's article was subsequently used as a source for an October 1985 story in the Literaturnaya Gazeta, a Soviet weekly with considerable influence at the time... 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›

WILL RUSSIA'S LINE IN THE SYRIAN SAND HALT US IMPERIAL AMBITIONS?

Will Russia's line in the Syrian sand halt US imperial ambitions? -- RT Op-Edge... 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›

A SHORT HISTORY OF THE USSR THROUGH ITS FOOD

A new cookbook explores the Soviet Unions classic dishes, from Stalinist powdered egg propaganda to the roast pig that insulted Khrushchev. The Calvert Journal reports... READ MORE›

THIS KREMLIN LEADER BRAGGED ABOUT TIPPING A U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

That happened at the height of the Cold War, in 1961, when Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev met the then-recently elected John F. Kennedy in Vienna... 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›

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›

FIDEL CASTRO: THE CUBAN REVOLUTIONARY AND PRESIDENT - IN HIS OWN WORDS

Oct 26, 1962, commenting on the possibility of a US attack in a memo to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev during the tensest hours of the Cuban missile crisis... READ MORE›

BUK MISSILE DOWNED MH17 IN UKRAINE

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

IN A DACHA WALL A CLUE TO A COLD WAR MYSTERY

Suspicion for the snatching of Wallenberg off the streets near Budapest fell almost immediately on the Soviet Union... READ MORE›

IGOR SHAFAREVICH RUSSIAN MATHEMATICIAN WITH A MIXED POLITICAL LEGACY DIES AT 93

Igor Shafarevich Russian Mathematician With a Mixed Political Legacy Dies at 93... READ MORE›

PUTIN USES THE SOVIET DEFEAT OF HITLER TO SHOW WHY RUSSIA NEEDS HIM TODAY

The Soviet Union lost more than 20 million people in World War II and bore the brunt of the fighting in Europe between 1941 and 1944... 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›

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›