Soviet New Years, a ritual that survived the country’s dissolution, may be in danger of slipping away.

Beginning in 1956, Soviet air defense forces faced an unexpected and deeply unsettling threat as mysterious objects drifted ...

For many people from former Soviet countries, New Year's is a big holiday feast time. A Ukrainian restaurant in Washington ...

Julia Ioffe has created a riveting red history of the Soviet Union through a colourful cast of remarkable women: some of them ...

December 30 marks a curious footnote in Soviet history that sounds almost absurd today: in 1932, Soviet authorities moved to ...

Yakov Grinshpun, who was born in the Soviet Union at the end of WWII in a Nazi-controlled Jewish ghetto, writes about his ...

One legacy of the former Soviet Union is the New Year's feast. Ukrainians are reclaiming Christmas and old recipes.

The following day, the 26th, the Soviet Union was no more. Dissolved was the 74-year reign of mass murder, the persecution of ...

From 2013 to 2015, Russian photographer Danila Tkachenko traveled thousands of miles to some of the most remote regions of the country to photograph once-proud structures of the Soviet Union that have ...

A Soviet-era spa town in Georgia is looking to reclaim its former glories, with a former sanatorium turned 4-star hotel one ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, has died at age 91, Russian state media reported and his personal press secretary Vladimir Polyakov confirmed to CBS News. His cause of death ...

In a slip of the tongue, the opposition leader said Ukraine was illegally occupied by “the USSR”, which was formally dissolved over 34 years ago.