The story of the Soviet leader’s time in power, his policies against Jews, and his relationship with Israel and Zionism ...

With most of the territory under the control of the Red Army, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic became a founding member of the USSR in 1922. Soviet leadership announced a policy of ...

As the republic of Estonia turns 107 this year, ERR News takes a look at how independence was achieved and how the country celebrates this important holiday. While people have been living on this side ...

The Tallinn Old Town conservation area established in 1966 by regulation Nr 360 of the Council of Ministers of the Estonian Socialist Soviet Republic (ESSR), and confirmed in 1996 by the Ministry of ...

Merle Tikk, project manager at the Police and Border Guard Board (PPA), told ERR: "The construction of the eastern border between the Republic of Estonia and the Russian ... of Tartu signed with the ...

Estonian World and ... lasted until 1940 – when the Soviet Union occupied Estonia for the first time. The period from 1934 to 1940 is called the Era of Silence and it’s one of the few smirches on the ...

This is especially the case where their policies are driven by socialist ideology ... This measure was expedited by the Estonian Privatisation Agency. This was understandably worrying for the ...

However, the Estonian government became used to getting loans from other governments and international development banks during the early years of its independence from the Soviet Union and ... The ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in ...