At the height of its power, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was made up of 15 republics that spanned across ...

Surprisingly little is known in the West about the role of Central Asia in World War II. This scholarly but thoroughly ...

Here are some details on how the Soviet Union, and later Russia, developed relations with African countries. The first political communication between Russia and African countries dates back to ...

TBILISI, Georgia — After a contentious parliamentary election, Georgia — a small nation once part of the Soviet Union — finds ...

Cold War stereotypes presented Cuba under Fidel Castro as a Soviet satellite in the Caribbean. But a closer look at Havana’s ...

The annual conference of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress in conjunction with The Jerusalem Post ran this year under the title, “The Future of Jewish life in post-Soviet countries.” This online ...

The two countries fought a bloody war over the ... Modern-day Armenia and Azerbaijan became part of the Soviet Union when it formed in the 1920s. Nagorno-Karabakh was an ethnic-majority Armenian ...