Soviet Union

September 26, 2022

What would happen if Russia deployed a tactical nuclear weapon?

Russia (and before it, the Soviet Union) has built and maintained a large stockpile of tactical nuclear weapons. The initial…

September 17, 2022

Kyrgyzstan reported “intense battles” with Central Asian neighbor Tajikistan on Friday and said 24 people had been killed in the…

September 3, 2022

Moscow (CNN) – Russians said farewell to the last leader of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev on Saturday in a…

August 31, 2022

Tributes have poured in from around the world for Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the former Soviet Union who died…

September 9, 2019

JERUSALEM (AP) — Avigdor Lieberman entered Israeli politics as a loyal protégé of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Now, the maverick…

August 8, 2019

Kyrgyzstan President Sooronbai Jeenbekov on Thursday ordered “urgent measures” to maintain law and order after a failed attempt to arrest…

July 21, 2019

Renowned Hungarian philosopher Agnes Heller, who taught political theory for 25 years in New York, has died at the age…

June 14, 2019

In the acclaimed US mini-series “Chernobyl”, Oleksiy Ananenko is hailed as one of three men who helped avert an even…

March 18, 2019

Russia on Monday marked the fifth anniversary of its annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, a move condemned by Kiev and…

January 9, 2019

BEIRUT (AP) — They always anticipated US support would run out, but President Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to rapidly pull…