She grew up under Soviet rule. Now EU's top diplomat warns Europe against giving Russia what it wants

Kaja Kallas says Russia's sabotage and intimidation campaign aims to weaken European support for Ukraine, warning the ...

History Stroll: Episode 114 - The Collapse of the Soviet Union: The Day the Superpower That Divided the World Disappeared

December 25, 1991. The red flag of the Soviet Union was lowered from the Kremlin in Moscow. After World War II, the Soviet ...

'Imperium' Review: Sergei Loznitsa's Vast Archival Tour of the USSR

In the early 1970s, Italian film crews spread out across the USSR, capturing a vast, multicultural empire few had ever seen in such diversity. From urban commuters to village fêtes, Baku trawlers to ...
The EconomistOpinion

The War Room newsletter: The Soviet Union’s greatest war reporter

Welcome to a bonus edition of The War Room. Our resident historian, Richard Cockett, has handed me command of this month’s ...
Eurasia Review

Armenia And Former Soviet Republics To Choose Between European Union And EAEU/Eurasia Union – Analysis

Armenia, a former Soviet republic, and Russia were members of the Soviet Union, and were strictly guided by rules and regulations. After the collapse of the Soviet empire in 1991, the republics have ...
The Conversation

I was in Georgia in the late 1980s: I observed how tradition survived harsh Sovietisation and rapid transformation

When Soviet president and Communist party secretary Mikhail Gorbachev introduced the policies of perestroika (reconstruction) and glasnost (openness) in the mid-1980s, it marked the beginning of ...