Officially known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the state was made up of 15 republics – including Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Belorussia, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan ...

There is now a new cold war taking shape. This is different in scope and substance compared to the one waged after the end of the Second World War. Then the contestants were what was at that time ...

MOSCOW, July 12. /TASS/. The USSR republics’ right for secession was "the most dangerous time bomb" under the statehood of the Soviet Union, Russian President Vladimir Putin wrote in the article ...

A mong other things, the Cold War was replete with examples of the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics attempting to one-up each other in the arena of aerospace ...

In one sense, the US president’s overture to Putin to discuss peace in Ukraine has given the Russian president exactly what ...

He explained that the Soviet authorities’ aim was "to preserve the union and to create a real federation with real sovereignty for the republics, which delegate part of their powers to the center." ...

A woman who runs a pro-Ukraine group has been accused by Prime Minister Robert Fico of Slovakia of plotting to topple him as ...