In December 1991, the Soviet Union dissolved, and Sergey Krikalev found out from orbit, still living aboard Mir with no clear return date and an identity tied to a country that had vanished. This is ...
The following day, the 26th, the Soviet Union was no more. Dissolved was the 74-year reign of mass murder, the persecution of ...
Soviet New Years, a ritual that survived the country’s dissolution, may be in danger of slipping away.
Mikhail Gorbachev didn’t make any pronouncements on the war in Ukraine, which, it turned out, overlapped with the last six months of his life: He died this week at the age of 91. But the goal of ...
The first head of state of an independent Belarus, Stanislav Shushkevich, who with the leaders of Russia and Ukraine signed a decree dissolving the Soviet Union, has died aged 87,... Already a ...