Pentagon told  Newsweek that among the US designated targets was S-125 Neva Pechora surface-to-air missile system and Soviet system known to NATO Western military alliance as SA-3 Goa.. ..…

For most of Soviet period after 1945, viewed Mongolia as Soviet republic not only except also because, even more than Bulgaria, it slavishly copied Soviet laws and practices. But additionally, it stems from the history of Soviet Union using this large and underpopulated..…

But presently, Euro-Atlantic enlargement is largely closed to the rest of the post-Soviet space. ... Interestingly, the only post-Soviet country not mentioned in Lukyanov’s carefully reasoned article is Belarus. ..…

It certainly is not the authoritarian communism that existed in the Soviet Union and in other communist countries. ... The parallel collapse of the Soviet Union and China’s ascendency as a capitalist super-power (with attendant domestic repression) illuminates how socialism in..…

China, Japan, Italy, and Germany within 20 years of fighting them or less, and if we could have normal relations with Soviet Union and its communist allies throughout Cold War, we can have normal relations with Iran after all this time.. ..…

Sakharov Made-for- TV of the life and times of Andrei Dmitriyevich Sakharov, the genial, gentle Soviet Academician. Rocky's friend, Apollo Creed, is killed in exhibition match in USA by Ivan Drago, Soviet champion, no remorse. ..…

But after 1989, “Third World” was reinvented from a political noun into an adjective to mean more than just Asian, African, and Latin American nations nonaligned with either the West or the Soviet bloc. ..…

Morison, who leaked a photograph of an advanced Soviet battleship to a military publication in return for money, received about the same sentence as Shamai. ..…

In Soviet Union in the 1930s-1940s, you could end up doing God forbid, Joseph Stalin. He was unlucky, and not completely out of luck as Alexandra Arkhipova, philologist studying Soviet jokes, told Radio Liberty. ..…

China is a regional power, Russia does not have the resources or will to reestablish the Soviet Union, and North Korea has only limited capability to attack anyone, even if it should choose to do so. ..…

It was originally passed in the 1930s to combat Nazi and Soviet propaganda, but there have been fewer than a dozen prosecutions under the statute since then. ..…

'At stake are the immense hydrocarbon resources of the Caspian Sea, which were contested ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. ... That was based on the assumption that Russia should have a 50% stake so it could provide the former Soviet States with decent shares [from its..…