I.Budnevich, V.Medvedev/TASS It would be an exaggeration to say that the Soviet Union was completely free of racial prejudice, but the country was also the most passionate critic of the United States ...

A discussion on Russian state television saw arguments praising the achievements of the Soviet Union and the value of dying in the war in Ukraine, with panelists trying to put Vladimir Putin's ...

A.Kovtun, B. Korzin/TASS After colonial empires in Africa collapsed, Moscow did all it could to make “African comrades” embrace socialism – but the romance didn’t last long. “During yet another crisis ...

In Akademgorodok, residents experienced cultural freedom unlike anywhere else in the USSR. To this day, the town is one of the most important research centres in Russia. The Siberian taiga, where ...

The USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) was formed after the Civil war of 1921 as the World's first Marxist-Communist state in the world. After that it would become one of the biggest and most ...

A chronology of key events: 1917 April - Lenin and other revolutionaries return to Russia from Germany. Gone but not forgotten: Many Russians still fondly remember the Soviet Union and its symbols ...

Fifty years ago, on April 4, 1970, the world witnessed an event in chess with the Soviet Union (USSR) facing the Rest of the World in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. The USSR was a powerhouse in chess at the ...

It was a cold and grey afternoon in early November, 1984, when I, a first grader in Kharkiv—a city in what was then Soviet Ukraine—walked home after school with high spirits and feeling ready to ...

Lavrovs attire choice is being seen as a nod to Kremalin's imperial ambitions. Sergei Lavrov wore a sweatshirt with "CCCP", the Russian initials for the USSR, during the Alaska meeting The sweatshirt ...