For decades, the threat of nuclear conflict between the US and the Soviet Union hung over humanity. Now, only one nuclear ...

As we were for a time after World War II, the U.S. is uncertain about its role in the world. This must change—or else.

On July 30, one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded struck off the Kamchatka peninsula, in Russia's far east. Within ...

Lavrov touched down in Anchorage wearing a white “CCCP” sweater – the Soviet Union’s old insignia, the cyrillic spelling of ...

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the ...

Trump has been dogged by concerns about his aging brain since his campaign for a second term began. In recent months, members ...

It’s been 33 years now since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 into 15 separate countries. And what a ride it’s been. The West has reaped the fruits of the USSR’s loss, expanding NATO to ...

In Moscow it was already May 9, which became the Soviet Union’s “Victory Day” in what Russians call the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45. In a much pared-down parade indicating the strains of ...

The embalmed body of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union, is seen on display in his mausoleum on Moscow's Red Square, Russia, on Wednesday, April 16, 1997. This year marks the 100th ...

Russia today is like a Potemkin hegemon —- a phantom political power desperate to hide its decline. Once the unchallenged leader of both the South Caucasus and the entire former Soviet Union ...

Russia, like the Soviet Union, is so large and geopolitically located that by its very existence it presents a strategic dilemma for the West, no matter what regime type is in power.

THE revolution which precipitated Russia's industrialization coincided with the opening of an equally new phase in the history of the neighboring Asiatic countries: Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Sinkiang ...