Education for Soviet high school students was fee-based for some time and a unified uniform appeared only after the Great ...

At the time of the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, Communists had been in power for 74 years in Moscow. The Chinese Communist Party has now surpassed “big brother”, as it once called the ...

Long a fearless critic of Israel, Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi has made wrenching portraits of her nation’s suffering since October ...

Warning comes after Russia’s government unveiled plans to hike defence spending to highest levels since the Cold War ...

Toukhcher left Ukraine with his parents in 1992 amid the economic chaos that was roiling the former Soviet Union. When he arrived ... The "stand up straight" outfit was to be woven with fiber ...

Firearms experts pointed out some of the features in the grainy photo, suggesting that the rifle is actually a Soviet cousin of the AK, the SKS. It was designed in the 1940s by another famous ...

Mr. Trudeau was a personal friend of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, he zoomed around the Kremlin on a police motorcycle during a state visit to the Soviet Union and he made sure Canada was one of ...

Even at the height of the East-West Cold War, the old Soviet Union did not share its nuclear weapons technology. While the US provided Britain with the Polaris system (and more recently Trident ...

The relationship between the UK and the Soviet Union was one of the key political and military relationships of World War II and the Cold War that followed it. Through the wartime alliance between the ...

Russia to spend 6.3% of GDP on national defence Highest level since the Cold War Defence spending at $145 billion, budget shows Defence spending a third of all spending Defence and security ...

“He takes the advice of the central bank governor, because he is very well aware that this is what brought down the Soviet Union. “But this is a very high interest rate, and it's not really ...