The two Russian figure skating coaches killed in the American Airlines crash were two-time Olympians and former world ...

Two former world champion skaters have been named as being on the American Airlines jet which crashed with a military ...

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 ...

Anders Åslund, a Swedish economist and former fellow at the Atlantic Council, said Russia's financial reserves could run out before the end of the year. The Soviet Union's economy collapsed in ...

The Russian ... Union. That has meant moving away from sugary “semisweet” wines produced to suit Soviet palates, to high quality wines that regularly win international prizes. Georgia, another ...

Two Russian ships docked at Syria’s main Mediterranean port last week, in what appears to be part of a large-scale withdrawal ...

Sailing off the south coast of England, the Russian trawler known as the Yantar carried its usual array of hi-tech equipment.

Analysis: 100 years after his death, Lenin seems to be an afterthought in modern Russia A century after the death of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union is largely an afterthought in ...

Putin is repeating a Soviet-era mistake, which is ruining Russia's economy, Poland's foreign minister said ... Radoslaw Sikorski said "Putin is repeating the mistakes of Soviet leadership" in regards ...