A USSR-born Brooklyn pol born recently dissed his constituents, declaring he and fellow comrades who fled to the United States are more cultured than homegrown Americans. State Assemblyman Michael ...

Seeing how people lived beyond the Iron Curtain made Tabarovsky dream of immigrating — an aspiration shared by many Jews in ...

On August 29, 1991, the Soviet Parliament suspended the activities of the Communist Party. These photos from 1930 paint a different picture.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A parade in Red Square, Moscow – a carefully choreographed display of Soviet power and unity that stood in contrast to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, shown autographing his book "Christmas In Plains" in December 2001, was award the Nobel Peace ...

The Soviet Union stretched across Asia and Europe and ruled more than 15 republics. Unfortunately, the era of centralized control came crashing down in 1991. This resulted in redrawn borders and ...

Not long after the 1924 death of the founder of the Soviet Union, a popular poet soothed and thrilled the grieving country with these words: “Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live.” A century ...

The death toll from the Tajik-Kyrgyz border skirmishes has reached 100, according to officials. The two former Soviet states clashed last week in an armed border dispute reportedly involving the ...

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, who died on August 30 at the age of ninety-one, was a generous, kind-hearted man, as the BBC would like us to remember. The last Soviet leader, who presided... Mikhail ...