The Latest Breaking News from Soviet Union

Pavel Durov, Franco-Russian billionaire founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at the Bourget airport outside Paris, French media reported, citing unidentified sources, and is set to appear in court Sunday. Russian-born Durov, 39, founded Telegram with his brother in 2013, and the encrypted messaging app is…

Academic who played a major role in highlighting the repression of dissidents in the Soviet Union and in the founding of Index on Censorship

Discover the sharp decline in U.S. trade with Russia over the past two years, reaching levels not seen since the Soviet Union's demise. Learn more here.

President Vladimir Putin is in the United Arab Emirates for a rare visit outside the former Soviet Union Wednesday, as Russia seeks to reassert itself on the global stage.

On the 70th anniversary of the storming of the Winter Palace, the country was in the grip of perestroika, glasnost, Lacoste sweaters and substance abuse

If it can retake its place at the high table of Middle Eastern politics, the Kremlin would be harking back to the Soviet Union’s superpower glory days, says historian Sergey Radchenko

Vladimir Putin is expected to travel outside the borders of the former Soviet Union for the first time in 20 months to meet China’s Xi Jinping on October 17. The visit, if it happens, is likely to entrench a relationship in which Russia has become a useful tool in a…

Google celebrates India's success in Moon mission Chandrayaan-3 with a special doodle. India is the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the moon, joining the U.S., China and the erstwhile Soviet Union. The doodle depicts letters of 'GOOGLE' floating in outer space with an animated 'moon' forming the second…

With its growth slowing, China’s future is uncertain. We should be grateful if the change is not sudden