The legacy of the Soviet Union's collapse plays a greater role in the foreign policies of Georgia and Ukraine than previous ...

The Chinese government says it respects the sovereignty of former Soviet Union republics after Beijing's ambassador to France caused an uproar in Europe by saying they aren't sovereign nations.

They did it without asking the other republics, and against the wishes of the USSR's overall President Mikhail Gorbachev. By the end of the year Gorbachev had resigned and the Soviet Union was no ...

But China’s leader, Xi Jinping, worries about how long-lived his party’s rule will be. Amid the festivities, state media have ...

At this stage, Georgia is the most problematic country in the region for Russia, especially the Georgian radical ...

China's 75th anniversary of Communist rule was marked quietly amid fears of a Soviet-style collapse. President Xi Jinping ...

The Soviet Union was formed in 1922 and collapsed in 1991, after which its constituent republics — which included Ukraine and the Baltic countries, among others — became independent states.

In a large-scale operation to influence the upcoming presidential election in Moldova, pro-Russian forces are said to have ...

The People’s Republic of China celebrated its 75th anniversary on Tuesday, October 1. The anniversary is both political spectacle and the advent of a week-long holiday marked by decidedly apolitical ...

In August, Ukrainian forces rolled over the Russian border into Kursk Oblast, an administrative district in Russia, ...

Officially known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the state was made up of 15 republics – including Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Belorussia, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan ...