Bucharest would receive all of Transylvania, nearly all of Bukovina, Bessarabia, the southern Dobruja ... for the competing influences of Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany. (Kenyon writes: “Romania ...

We’re talking about the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic,” he said. Georgescu insisted that a “changing world” will lead to changing borders. “And if the borders change, where will we be? That ...

Ukraine’s government wants to restore the country’s frontier to where it was before Russia launched its first invasion more than a decade ago. The U.S. defense secretary said that was “unrealistic.” ...

Black grouse and caviar helped Stalin get much of what he wanted, but his Red Army counted for more, says a notable historian ...

In 1979, however, after he denounced the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Politburo exiled Sakharov to Gorky, out of reach of foreign journalists. Sakharov was allowed to return to Moscow in time ...

Finnish President Alexander Stubb offered one lesson recently at a gathering of northern European leaders ... who feared he was ratifying Soviet occupation of the Baltic states, the agreement ...

Estonia, along with fellow Baltic states Latvia and Lithuania, is counting down the days to finally ridding itself of one of the last vestiges of 50 years of Soviet occupation: an electricity grid ...

Nearly three and a half decades after leaving the Soviet Union, the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania this weekend will flip a switch to end electricity-grid connections to ...

File Photo by Roger L. Wollenberg/UPI In 1990, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a series of reforms and the Communist Party gave up its 70-year monopoly of political power in the Soviet Union.

MOSCOW, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a revival of the Soviet answer to the Eurovision Song Contest in an effort to counter what he says is the decadence of modern ...