For most of us in the West, until the fall of the Berlin Wall “Russia” was synonymous with the Soviet Union. Among the 15 ...

The legacy of the Soviet Union’s collapse plays a greater role in the foreign policies of Georgia and Ukraine than previous studies have suggested. Conducting foreign policy in former Soviet countries ...

When the Turkmenistan government announced new streamlined visa regulations in April, people familiar with traveling to the Central Asian nation were unsure what to make of it. Not that there are many ...

MOSCOW, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Several African and ex-Soviet countries have expressed interest in buying Russia's vaccine against smallpox and mpox viruses, as well as testing systems and antiviral ...

Ethnic Germans from the former Soviet Union have held their first international "memory marathon" to raise awareness of the deportation and persecution of the group under brutal dictator Josef Stalin ...

The relationship between Azerbaijan and Russia has soured since December 2024. Other former Soviet states are also distancing themselves from Moscow, developing closer ties with other countries like ...

KNOXVILLE, TN (WATE) — Kristina Kushnir was born in 1971 in the deep colds of Siberia in the far east of the USSR. The city was called Magadan, a “sister city” to Anchorage, Alaska, just 2,000 miles ...