For many post-Soviet states, multipolarity is nothing new. Navigating between competing powers has been an important part of ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, died in Moscow, on Tuesday, at the age of ninety-one. In the last two decades of his life, he rarely granted interviews. So, in 2010, when he ...

Sergei Loznitsa's Two Prosecutors is a film about a young attorney who believes in the rule of law. He lives, unfortunately, at one of the worst possible times and places for such idealism: during ...

The events of August 1991 led to the Soviet Union, and President Gorbachev, being consigned to the history books. Malcolm Brinkworth explains what really happened during those final days. Just over ...

Beginning in 1956, Soviet air defense forces faced an unexpected and deeply unsettling threat as mysterious objects drifted silently over vast stretches of their territory. These were not ordinary ...

Originally produced eight decades ago, the impact of the IS-2 Heavy Tank still reverberates today. The formidable armored vehicle was vital to the Soviet Union during two of its most important ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, who enabled the Cold War to come to a peaceful end during his astonishing tenure as the leader of the Soviet Union, has died. He was 91 and reportedly died after a long illness, ...

Earlier this year, while exploring how graduate students have used the collections of AIP’s Niels Bohr Library & Archives in ...

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The Soviet Union disappeared from the map more than two decades ago. But online an 'e-vil empire' is thriving. Security experts say the .su Internet suffix assigned to the USSR in 1990 has turned into ...