The USSR had organized special sanatoriums for people left disabled after the war. Conditions there were not as appalling as the rumors claimed. Here’s why... “Hundreds of thousands of disabled people ...

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 ...

Bon Jovi’s 1989 performance at the Moscow Music Peace Festival in what was then the USSR remains a hugely impactful moment in history, representative of the world’s slow emergence from the Cold War.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

GK Quiz on USSR: Soviet Union, officially known as the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). It was the former northern Eurasian empire (1917/22-1991) that stretched from the Baltic and ...

A quarter-century after the Cold War came to a close, the only cannon that actually fired in space has finally come to light. Installed on the Almaz space station in the 1970s, the R-23M Kartech was ...

Ah, the USSR. It was a strange place with strange ideas. Ideas such as planting unprotected mini nuclear power sources into inhospitable and hard-to-reach areas. I mean, nothing should go wrong as ...

On December 26, 1991, the Stalinist regime headed by Mikhail Gorbachev formally dissolved the Soviet Union. The end of the USSR and the restoration of capitalism were the culminating acts of 70 years ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s handling of the uprising in Ukraine is not surprising if you look at telling comments he made years ago, says former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations turned ...