F our months before the legal dissolution of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics (USSR) in 1991, Ukraine had already passed its own declaration of independence with a vast parliamentary ...

It was to be called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. On Dec. 30, 1922, in a meeting at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater of Communist delegates from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Caucasus ...

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 ...

As we mark 20 years of Vladimir Putin’s rule, Mick O’Hare looks back at the break-up of the former Soviet Union and the forces that underpinned the KGB man’s rise to the top ...

The 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union deprived Russia of nearly half the population and lands that had been amassed by czars over the centuries; Mr. Putin has described it as the biggest ...

President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 8, 1987, as they met for the signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.

In 1994, she became the first ruling British monarch to set foot on Russian soil after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Market-moving news hits Benzinga Pro first—get a 30-minute edge and ...

Slovakia is one of two nations born out of the former Czechoslovakia amid the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the waning years of the 20th century.

Mark Rutte had an unenviable task at the Hague summit this week. The Nato secretary-general had to work with diverging ...