In April 2025, rumors spread on social media about an allegedly declassified CIA document that proved a story about aliens ...

Forty years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev set out to make the USSR great again, to coin a phrase. He was acutely aware of the uncompetitive nature of the USSR’s economy and the need to inject market ...

The last president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and father of perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev, died Tuesday in Moscow at the age of 91. “This afternoon, after a long and ...

Zurab Tsereteli, a prominent Georgian and Russian sculptor known for colossal, often controversial, monuments, has died at 92 ...

In bronze, he glorified figures like Peter the Great and Vladimir Putin, often to the public’s distaste. Some works, like a ...

Mikhail Gorbachev set out to save the Soviet Union with bold reforms. Instead, he unleashed forces that would bring it to its knees. This is the story of Perestroika and Glasnost.

Three Nobel Peace Prize-winning groups campaigning to eliminate nuclear weapons joined forces on Monday to urge the US and Russian presidents to meet and agree on significant denuclearisation.

traveling the world and decorating Soviet embassies. In between, he worked on Mikhail Gorbachev’s summer house in Abkhazia. “I don’t know why they chose me,” he said in a 2013 interview.