In April 2008, President George W. Bush supported Ukraine and the former Soviet state of Georgia’s attempts to join NATO.

The collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s heralded ... Now, almost 20 years after the dissolution of the USSR, another benefit is beginning to emerge. In its heyday, the former USSR ...

Built at a shipyard in what is now Ukraine and named after what is now the capital of Belarus, it served in the Soviet ...

Georgia may have decades ago broken free from the Soviet Union, but its struggle for true independence is far from over.

The following piece by Paul Huth (Program for International Peace and Security Research, University of Michigan) is a condensed version of the final chapter of the forthcoming Beyond the Soviet Threat ...

First, Russia’s invasion dramatically accelerated the decline of Ukraine’s labor force, which has been shrinking since the Soviet dissolution. The loss of nearly a third of its population to ...

A Soviet citizen is defined as a person born in one of the 15 states which seceded from the Soviet Union during its dissolution in December 1991. Persons born in one of these 15 states after 1991 are ...

After 25 years of independence, some former Soviet republics are experiencing ... Kazakhstan’s population fell for over a decade after the dissolution mainly due to an exodus of ethnic Russians ...

NATO's early 1990s push to involve itself in humanitarian interventionism gave Vladimir Putin the excuse he wanted to attack Ukraine.

On March 11, 2025, we take a moment to reflect on significant events that have occurred on this date throughout history.One ...

“I couldn’t come to the Soviet Union, of course ... guard in a country which seemed to be slipping towards inevitable dissolution. If Kasparov won, it would be confirmation that times were ...