Why did the USSR collapse? In this video, we analyze the internal and external pressures that led to the Soviet Union's downfall. From economic stagnation to political unrest and the influence of ...

This week marks the anniversary of both the Cold War’s nadir, the construction of the Berlin Wall, and its end with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Hugh Sidey writes on one of its lowest points, ...

In August 1991, the Soviet empire collapsed. Yet this colossus seemed indestructible: its power had towered over the world for nearly a century. But a collapsed economy, reforms too late to avoid ...

[Asia Economy Beijing=Special Correspondent Jo Young-shin] On December 26, 1991, 30 years ago, the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) officially declared the dissolution ...

An AI-powered analysis of 25 years of satellite images yields the surprising finding that methane emissions in Turkmenistan, a former Soviet republic and major oil-producing region, actually increased ...

Anton Kobyakov emphasized that a proper legal assessment of the USSR's dissolution is essential to fully understand current geopolitical developments MOSCOW, May 21. /TASS/. In 1991, the dissolution ...

Slovakia is one of two nations born out of the former Czechoslovakia, a multiethnic nation established at the end of World War I. By The New York Times Slovakia, which was left reeling on Wednesday ...

216. The 1988 Perspectives Resolution prepared the International Committee for the political crisis of Stalinism that erupted in 1989 with mass protests in China, followed shortly thereafter by the ...