Why did the USSR collapse? In this video, we analyze the internal and external pressures that led to the Soviet Union's ...

Schneider told the Times Union in March that several petitions advocating for dissolution have been presented over the past 25 years. This time, the village received a state Citizens Re ...

Protests have erupted at several places in Rajasthan over the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government’s decision to dissolve nine of the 17 districts created during the previous Congress regime.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn in West Germany following his deportation from the Soviet Union in February 1974 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons By 1973, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was already “Russia ...

On Dec. 30, 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ... before its fall and ultimate dissolution in 1991. That’s right, 69 years. Initially, the union consisted of Russia, Ukraine ...

Before the fall of the Iron Curtain and subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union during the 1989-1992 period, the nations of the Soviet Empire produced a fascinating range of cars, trucks ...

premiered on millions of television sets in the Soviet Union on Jan. 1, 1976, Igor Rogovyi was 9 and living in Odesa, Ukraine. “This movie is from the depths of my childhood,” Rogovyi said.

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of ...

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Rivkin’s life is a great American story. He was born in the city of Pskov in what was then the Soviet Union. He made his way to America alone as a 19-year-old in 1976 amid the wave of Jewish ...

However his case, which made headlines around the world, drew international attention to Soviet human rights abuses ... samizdat magazines and joined the Union for Intellectual Freedom, a ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru's soccer federation said on Thursday that Jorge Fossati has left as coach ... this ad For more than a century, Times Union photographers have been documenting the Capital ...