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.

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 ...

One of the many little-known facts about the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is that ... two links of the Northeast Passage (see map). In October, most of her work done, she was sent to ...

With its power and ideology shredded the Russian-dominated USSR ... Ten years later the wall was gone with the Soviet Union itself set to vanish from our maps. How could an empire with a vast ...

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 ...