By the end of the year Gorbachev had resigned and the Soviet Union was no more. Dina Newman has spoken to the former President of Belorussia, Stanislav Shushkevich, and the former President of ...

Show more December 1991 saw the end of 70 years of communist rule and the collapse of the Soviet Union. We hear from two ... nuclear expert who helped clean-up the former USSR.

Each story uncovered the many layers that make up a building – from its initial ... divided between Poland and the Soviet Union, and finally declared its independence in 1991.

Thousands of people in Russia have paid their final respects to Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader ... Medvedev - showed up, later to berate the West for seeking to break up Russia.

TASS/. The United States and Western nations have betrayed the trust showed to them after the Soviet Union’s breakup, Russian First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyansky has ...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn in West Germany following his deportation from the Soviet Union in February 1974 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons By 1973, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was already “Russia ...