The four-day choir-singing and dancing event centers around Estonian folk songs and patriotic anthems and is held roughly ...

Russia has removed the image of a dove of peace from the cover of its official high school history textbook, Vladimir ...

With its brutality, technological accomplishments and rigid ideology, the Soviet Union loomed over the world like an immortal colossus. It led humankind into outer space, exploded the most ...

So far, organisers have announced only acts from Russia, Belarus, and Kyrgyzstan. But invitations have been sent out across the former Soviet Union and as far afield as China, Cuba, and Iran.

THE SOVIET Union was a brutal regime fronted by dangerous, power-hungry madmen who ruled with a vice-like grip. Sound familiar? Vladimir Putin has never been coy about his Soviet nostalgia – … ...

Vladimir Putin’s troops were accused of breaking a three-day ceasefire called to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two on Friday.

Confidently rolling toward Ukrainian lines in western Russia’s Kursk Oblast in up-armored vehicles brazenly flying the flag of the defunct Soviet Union, an assault group from the Russian 155th ...

The Soviet Arctic (some of which is south of the Circle) is the Soviet Union’s pioneerland, a vast (2,316,600 sq. mi.), cold, potentially rich region, bigger than the West that lay before the ...

Following Russia's ban from competing in Eurovision in 2022 after the country's invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin has ordered the return of Intervision, a Soviet-era singing ...

The Soviet flag has replaced the Norwegian at top in the coal loading crane at the harbor in Pyramiden. Russia’s tricolor is still there to the right, however less visible than the U.S.S.R. flag ...

A Russian soldier, photographed in Ukraine's Donetsk region in July 2023, wears the Soviet victory banner, a flag that was raised over Germany's Reichstag by Red Army troops in May 1945.