It’s been 33 years now since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 into 15 separate countries ... does not have a diversified economy, is under dictatorial rule, and represses its citizens.

For the thirty-second time in so many years, the US blockade of Cuba was globally condemned at the UN General Assembly’s ...

and launchers no longer under Moscow’s central control. In addition to Russia, three new nuclear powers emerged from the ruins of the USSR virtually overnight. The newly independent republics of ...

Ukraine is not the end of Vladimir Putin‘s ambition, as an expert believes the Russian President soon intends to set his ...

Crises shaking the countries of the former Soviet Union are leading to a growing number of people ... a stateless person is someone who “is not considered a national by any state under the operation ...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has resulted in a proxy war between the Korean states as they supply arms for both sides. Now ...

In 1984, Orwell wrote, “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” And so it was in the USSR, a dystopia paralleling the fictional ...

Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev has been praising fossil fuel and taking shots at geopolitical rivals, casting a cloud over ...

Under the Peaceful Coexistence doctrine launched in 1955 ... “tendency toward independence,” relations between Mexico, the socialist countries and the USSR had advanced more slowly than what was ...

while at the same time they were trying to get support from the newly independent countries of Asia and Africa as well as from the USSR and the socialist camp. Under Soviet initiative the “Indonesian ...

The thinking is, being split into smaller states would blunt Russia’s challenge to the West and its ability to carry on a war in Ukraine. As a scholar of Russian regional identity and history, I ...