The Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which had been independent between the two world wars, were annexed by the Kremlin in June of 1940, during the dramatic days when Paris fell to the ...

Most countries, including China, recognized all 15 former Soviet republics as independent states.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — It’s a warm and breezy night in a large Florida theatre, where the parking lot is packed without much conventional advertising. But the folks filling all the seats do ...

Before the advent of Russia, the areas included in the present Socialist Soviet Republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan and in the eastern part of Georgia were under Persian domination. Almost all of the ...

Russia’s Colonized Populations Can Do Without All the “Westsplaining” Any discussion of the region’s future shouldn’t give short shrift to the possibility of new nations emerging from ...

Former Soviet republics in Central Asia have a deeply entangled history with Russia. Their Soviet legacy is reflected in some interesting ways, including at their subway stations.

The Soviet experience killed trust and initiative among the subjects of the Soviet empire, yet Putin’s attempt to restore that empire has instead restored something like civic virtue in Ukraine.

They said now is not the time to remove Ukraine's support. Fears of an emboldened Putin rise among New Yorkers from Ukraine and other former Soviet republics ...

Signs of President Vladimir Putin’s waning power in what the Kremlin calls its “near abroad” of former Soviet republics are visible all around Russia’s borders.

But at home he was a drained and defeated man when forced to step down the following year, reduced to leader of a non-existent country as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics collapsed into 15 ...

The Chinese government says it respects the sovereignty of former Soviet Union republics after Beijing’s ambassador to France caused an uproar in Europe by saying they aren’t sovereign nations.

China affirms that it respects the sovereignty of former Soviet republics after a Chinese ambassador caused a stir with remarks suggesting otherwise.