Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy is one of the great cinematic accomplishments of the 21st century, a stunning epic that culminated in a well-deserved Best Picture win for The Return of the ...

ALMATY (Reuters) -For two decades, Andrei Klimenko has been amassing a collection of Soviet-era reel-to-reel tape recorders ...

The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 marked a seismic shift in global politics. This documentary analyzes the key causes ...

This story originally ran in the Chicago Tribune on Dec. 9, 1991. MOSCOW — It was the last empire. The Soviet Union — the vast territory stretching from the Baltic Sea and Finland in the west, to the ...

BLUE ASH, Ohio (WKRC) - The horrifying videos and photographs coming out of Ukraine are felt deeply by a local Tri-State family. It was February of 1991. Sasha Naiman and her parents left what was the ...

Valentin S. Pavlov, a former Soviet prime minister who helped lead the failed hard-line coup against Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991, has died, Russian news reports said Monday. He was 66. Pavlov died ...

General Dmitry Yazov, the last Soviet marshal and a member of the so-called Gang of Eight that tried to take over the collapsing Soviet Union in 1991, has died in Moscow at the age of 95. The Russian ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of Soviet Russia at the time of its fall in 1991, has died, according to multiple reports citing Russian news agencies. He was 91. Gorbachev served as General Secretary from ...

Individual liberty and representative democracy as complementary forms of personal and political self-government are precious aspects of shared social life. Given the political and economic events ...

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