The Latest Breaking News from Soviet Union

Ranging across the vast Eurasian landmass, director Uldis Brauns and his crew captured extraordinary vignettes of everyday life, both big and small

Desperate to win the Space Race against the USSR, the US quietly recruited prominent engineers from Nazi Germany

Soviet-era nostalgia and anti-Western sentiment fuel online support for Russia’s Vladimir Putin and his war on Ukraine.

History is linear, yet it is punctuated by discontinuities. Things that seemed like fixtures in the firmament of the global order sometimes vanish overnight. On Dec. 26, 1991, the Soviet Union disappeared after 69 years. On Sept. 11, 2001, American security vanished in the blink of an eye. This year…

During the Cold War era, American military strategists thought the Soviet Union would be deterred from dropping a nuclear bomb on North America only if the United States also built up sufficient nuclear weapons capable of annihilating the Soviets.

A month and 60 years ago, the world almost came to an end. The Soviet Union had deployed ballistic missiles in Cuba, the United States imposed a quarantine around the island and both sides contemplated the annihilation of the other before a peaceful resolution was found. We called it the…

Beleniuk says he is the ‘best example’ of how Ukrainians perceive people of different race.

As water levels reached historically low levels across Europe in 2022, history emerged from its depths.

The Sunday Mail can reveal he has signed an order allowing popular brands such as Bell’s, Johnnie Walker and Macallan in to the former Soviet Union via a process called parallel imports.