Current textbooks describe fall of the USSR in a way that is "intentionally neutral".
Updated 22 Oct, 2017 10:16am
Sputnik, the tiny silver sphere with four spider leg-like antennae, shows off Soviet technological prowess.
Updated 05 Oct, 2017 10:40am
MOSCOW: It was the year that ended centuries of royal rule, brought two revolutions, ushered in Soviet domination ...
Published 16 Mar, 2017 07:04am
In a recent opinion poll, 55 per cent of respondents said they disapproved of Gorbachev’s reforms.
Updated 03 Jun, 2015 09:17am
Russia’s secret service has revealed it had an agent inside the secret police of Estonia for 15 years.
Updated 18 Dec, 2014 12:20pm
MOSCOW: Why did Moscow hand Crimea to Soviet Ukraine in 1954? Was the “red phone” hotline linking the Kremlin...
Published 30 Nov, 2014 07:27am