The USSR, or Soviet Union, was one of the most influential and complex political entities of the 20th century. This video ...

During the Cold War, the Soviet military ... a retired Russian colonel was convicted of espionage, stripped of his rank, and sentenced to 12 years in prison for smuggling maps out of the country.

He suggested that maps of Russia should show the borders of the Soviet Union, the Russian empire that preceded it, as well as the countries that are under Moscow's sphere of influence.

It’s been 33 years now since the Soviet Union ... on the map for western powers. Failures: Remote and isolated, Kyrgyzstan has a struggling economy and has been politically unstable. Russian ...

After the Soviet Union crumbled in the early 1990s ... (Vauxhall is south of the River Thames). Incidentally, the Russian word for 'railway station' (вокзал) pronounced 'vok`za'’ is ...

Twenty years after the break-up of the Soviet Union, Russia is changing ... If one were to draw such a map, it would show not the territory of Russia, half empty and badly developed, but its ...