In “Zbig,” Edward Luce tells the story of Zbigniew Brzezinski, a leading American strategist who had a notably eventful run ...

The Russian economic engine is showing clear signs of exhaustion — a reality the Kremlin is beginning to acknowledge. The ...

The Soviet Union seemed formidable in the mid-1980s, ... “The date of the USSR’s collapse is well known. It’s not the day of the Belovezha Accords, nor the August coup [of 1991].

Twenty-five years ago, the USSR collapsed. Despite the horrors of Soviet repression, a majority of Russians regret the collapse, and look to Vladimir Putin to restore the pride of their lost ...

The fall of the Soviet Union is a peak oil event and if we treat it as such, then we can begin to understand what is in store for our own economy. Indeed, ...

Reactor 4 may not have been the only thing that exploded that day. Fewer than six years elapsed between the meltdown at Chernobyl and the formal dissolution of the Soviet Union—six years marked ...

Long seen as loyal to Russian President Vladimir Putin, billionaire Konstantin Strukov is on the verge of being stripped of ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that Moscow planned to cut its defence spending, but that he thought a ...

It is estimated the Soviet Union had between 35,000 and 45,000 nuclear warheads at the time of its collapse in 1991. Of these, 3,200 were stationed across Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus, though ...

Unlike the USSR, China hid its true geopolitical ambitions in order to gain strategic favors and concessions from different countries, especially the U.S. and the European nations.

The fact is that thousands of Americans went to Russia hoping to help its people attain a better life. The American and Western effort over the last 25 years — to which the United States and ...