(Bloomberg) -- Vladimir Putin is going on a property hunt, ordering officials to find Russian assets that once belonged to its former empire or were owned by the Soviet Union. An order from the ...

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Lithuania on Wednesday celebrated the 30th anniversary of its secession from the Soviet Union, a move that heralded the beginning of the end of the sprawling Eurasian empire. The Lithuanian parliament ...

As the Soviet Union teetered on the brink of collapse, hardline communists made a desperate bid to hold onto power. This is the story of the 1991 coup attempt that sought to reverse history but ...

In the waning years of the Soviet Union, most of the citizens in that cold tyranny could see that their system was ...