Russia’s president is said to have blamed birds or a Ukrainian drone for a Dec. 25 crash of an Azerbaijani plane. Azerbaijan ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader who brought the Cold War to a peaceful end, has died aged 91. Mr Gorbachev took power in 1985 and introduced reforms, as well as opening up the Soviet ...

Lavrentii Beria was one of the cruelest leaders in a regime known for its brutality. He first reached a position of power by working his way up the police organization in the Soviet republic of ...

This turbojet made its first flight in 1963 and served as “air force one” for Soviet leaders for 30 years. Today, it is still used for cargo transportation in Belarus and for passenger ...

In 2019 the last Soviet leader was admitted for pneumonia. Gorbachev was the top Soviet leader when he held the posts of general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the ...

Gorbachev shares his views on Russia’s present-day leaders and, of course, on international relations. Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, who was at the helm of the USSR from 1985 to 1991 ...

Nina Khrushcheva, great-granddaughter of former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, now finds herself at the center of a growing storm, according to Ziare. Khrushcheva, a professor at Columbia ...

“[He] has used these services to turn out people in his Soviet Jewry demonstrations.” The informant also cites Brooks as saying that Light, leader of the Bay Area Council for Soviet ...