The Soviet Union boasted an unbroken streak of world chess champions that stretched back to 1948. It seemed unimaginable that there could be a serious challenger hailing from any other nation.

The world condemned it, but behind the scenes the U.S., UK, France, West Germany, China and Soviet Union all backed Saddam. Some sold him weapons. Some gave him intelligence. Some just looked away.

While it lasted, the Soviet Union was defined by many actions and ideas that captured the unique practices required to survive its politics. This quiz remembers a few.

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This was somehow spun by online ignoramuses that Coristine was nebulously connected to Moscow when, in fact, his grandfather was clandestinely working for the U.S. rather than the Soviet Union.

In a video posted on Telegram in early February, two floating barriers are shown at the entrance to the natural harbor at Balaklava in Russian-held Crimea. Pro-Ukrainian activists claim the ...

A life-size portrait of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin and other paintings from the former state are going up for auction. Described as "monumental", they will be up for sale at Wotton ...

A former intelligence officer has alleged that Donald Trump was recruited by the Soviet Union's KGB in 1987 and given a secret codename. The claim was made in a social media post by Alnur Mussayev ...

At the time, Trump, then a rising star in the New York property market, travelled to the Soviet Union to explore the possibility of building a hotel in the capital. Soviet officials reportedly ...

Russia’s ‘Committee for State Security’, abbreviated as KGB, was the main security agency of the Soviet Union between 1954 to 1991, responsible for internal security, foreign intelligence, ...