Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday praised Soviet soldiers for ending the "total evil" of Auschwitz on the 80th anniversary of the Red Army's liberation of the Nazi death camp. "We will always remember that it was the Soviet soldier who crushed this terrible,

It already appears evident that the days of Russia serving as its leading arms supplier have come to an ignominious end.

Poland's foreign minister said Putin used to criticize the Soviet approach that helped bankrupt it, but now he's repeating the mistake.

In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at key junctures and eventually to great effect.

The idea of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics (USSR) as a colonial power remains a contentious issue. During the Cold War, the United States was keen to promote the idea of the Soviet Union as a “red” colonial power,

Nevertheless, The Sound of Utopia infuses a bleak subject with verve, inspiring admiration for musicians so dedicated to their art that they persevered inside the grind of what the writer and chronicler of atrocity Vasily Grossman called a “vast system of mechanized enthusiasm”.

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko is all but certain to extend his more than three decades in power in Sunday’s election that is rejected by the opposition as a farce after years of sweeping repressions.

Ekaterinburg's aviation and military museum complex is preparing to undertake restoration of an orbiter from the Soviet Union's Buran space shuttle programme, six months after the vehicle's arrival. Orbiter 2.

Figures given by US president on Soviet losses during World War II do not correspond to official data from Russian historians, specialists from across continent, says Kremlin - Anadolu Ajansı

Ilona Mermelstein says there were three specific moments during the Holocaust when she was saved from almost certain death. Three hinge points that led to her being an 87-year-old grandmother living in a comfortable Vancouver apartment,

World leaders are gathering with Auschwitz survivors to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp.

Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko extended his 31-year rule with a massive win in a presidential election that Western governments have rejected as a sham, according to preliminary results on Monday.