A Soviet citizen is defined as a person born in one of the 15 states which seceded from the Soviet Union during its dissolution in December 1991. Persons born in one of these 15 states after 1991 are ...

In the old Soviet Union, ordinary citizens often reported each other to the authorities for criticism of the Communist Party. In Vladimir Putin's Russia, this Stalinist practice is experiencing a ...

For three decades the Soviet Union's obsession with space stirred the soul of the nation like a secular religion - from the first space star Yuri Gagarin to the sad saga of cosmonaut Sergei ...