News

The Soviet Union is unsurpassed in the art of defense budgetry. ... According to the official figures, the Soviet arms budget will rise only 1% to 17.8 billion rubles ...
Leonid Brezhnev, who led the Soviet Union from the 1960s until his death in 1982, ... Inflation in Russia has risen while its labor supply has shrunk, and the value of the ruble has fallen.
The Soviet Union needed to cut costs following its dismantling in the early '90s, ... For a short time, bricks were more valuable than the ruble in the newly formed Russian Federation.