When she heard the news of Nazi Germany surrendering 80 years ago, Valentina Efremova couldn’t believe the devastating war ...

The Soviet Union lost a staggering 27 million people in what it calls the Great Patriotic War in 1941-45, an enormous sacrifice that left a deep scar in the national psyche. Russian flag carrier ...

A push to rename streets and remove statues associated with imperial Russia is dividing Odesa, whose identity is tied up in ...

The main tactic of this avalanche of propaganda is to blur the political distinction between the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. But despite their geographical location and the ...

But it's also used by the Kremlin to bolster patriotism and regain the superpower prestige it lost when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. President Vladimir Putin, who has ruled Russia for 25 of ...