By the end of the year Gorbachev had resigned and the Soviet Union was no more. Dina Newman has spoken to the former President of Belorussia, Stanislav Shushkevich, and the former President of ...

Show more December 1991 saw the end of 70 years of communist rule and the collapse of the Soviet Union. We hear from two ... nuclear expert who helped clean-up the former USSR.

Shmuel Eliashiv, former Israel Minister to Moscow, declared here last night on his arrival from the Soviet Union. Dr ... that the motives behind the Soviet break were “obscure” and refused ...

Skobov, who was jailed in the Soviet Union for his opposition to the authorities ... Russian officials accuse anti-war activists of trying to stir up trouble at a time when the country is facing ...

Among other things, the Cold War was replete with examples of the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics attempting to one-up each ... pairing to break the sound ...

where she spent more than 30 years of her life after the break-up of the Soviet Union. Gubaidulina, who was 93, was one of a group of composers blacklisted in the Soviet Union in 1979. But her ...