I was 6 years old when the Soviet Union collapsed and Ukraine stepped into a new era of democracy, free speech and expanded ...

The Soviet Union became a gerontocracy in its final years, contributing to its collapse. Historians say it's a cautionary tale for the US, whose leaders have been in power for decades.

Back in the old Soviet Union, the political joke was the principal underground conduit of political opinion. One that made the rounds soon after Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in 1985 posed this ...

Before Gorbachev, Soviet leaders never ventured into the streets, let alone pressed the flesh. But in 1985, the youngest-ever Secretary General of the Communist Party swept the old ways aside.

In this context, the change from Trump to President Joe Biden made little difference. America did not have a Soviet-style one-party state, but nor did it have much inter- or intra-party democracy.

When I think about the power that the Soviet Union had from the late 1940s into the early 90s, it was nothing like the power and the strength that China is exhibiting on the world stage.

50-year-old Soviet spacecraft expected to crash on Earth this weekend. ... 1972, the Soviet Union launched a spacecraft as part of a series of unmanned missions to Venus known as the Venera program.