Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a series of reforms and the Communist Party gave up its 70-year monopoly of political power in the Soviet Union.

“We’ve only had independence for 33 years. People are still learning ... it may be too far for a city break, but this is a place that makes up in lasting impressions what it lacks in proximity.

Vlad Goldin hasn't seen his family in 5 years, all still home in Russia. From Connecticut to Texas, Florida to Michigan, his ...

When he first came to conduct the Sarasota Orchestra a year ago, Giancarlo Guerrero had a relatively easy time focusing on the music while meeting with administrators and staff who were leading a ...

The samples brought home from the Moon in the 1970s by the Apollo missions and the Soviet Union ... just last year and still needs to be verified, but if such recent dates hold up, they suggest ...

And with the protest movement now approaching its third month, it is not clear what can break the stalemate ... fortune in the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union in Russia in ...

Lukashenko has freed more than 250 in the past year on what he called humanitarian ... Moscow and Berlin. Covered the break-up of the Soviet Union in the 1990s. Security correspondent from 2003 ...

Over the past two years Azerbaijan has denied these ... sees as part of his sphere of influence. After the break-up of the Soviet Union, Russia tried to keep the region relatively calm, but ...

One of the many little-known facts about the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is that some 25 ... dynamite the ice to break up an ice cup weighing several thousand tons. The last of the cup ...

The Tartus naval base remains the only base of its kind Russia has outside the former Soviet Union. If so, that would mark the end of an era spanning almost 70 years. “Between 1956 and 1991 ...

The first game began with three fights in the game’s first nine seconds, so buckle up for whatever happens ... mark with 10 assists for the former Soviet Union during the 1981 Canada Cup.