Retired general Ben Hodges drew a comparison between Russia and the Soviet Union, warning we should be prepared for the eventual collapse of Vladimir Putin's country ...

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.

Ever an optimist and a peacemaker, Lozansky advocates “resetting the clock with Russia.” ...

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a statement carried by Russian news agencies ... The Soviet Union wrote itself into oblivion a day later. A quarter-century after the collapse, Gorbachev ...

While George F Kennan, the architect of US Containment policy, lived beyond 100 years to see his strategy succeed, it was Carter who laid the foundation of the actual collapse of the Soviet Union.

A newly declassified analysis argued against “shock therapy” for the former Soviet Union. The warning wasn’t heeded.

John Simpson visits Russia's neighbour Latvia for a special episode of Unspun World where he reflects on how the collapse of the Soviet Union has shaped Putin’s Russia. With BBC experts in the region, ...