Tag Archives: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Russian troops on the Ukraine border, an Olympics boycott, a "missing" tennis star: What century is this? Close your eyes and it is the 1980s again, writes Stan Grant.

Tens of thousands of Russian troops have been massing near the Ukrainian border sparking international concern of an impending invasion. With tensions mounting, US president Joe Biden has lent support to Ukraine and in a two-hour video call earlier this week he reportedly told Russian President Putin that the US …

This ship was a symbol of the Russian Revolution as a mutiny occurred on board during the October Revolution in 1917. While Storozhevoy was next to Aurora, Sablin planned to address the nation and say aloud what he thought everyone was thinking but too afraid to say: the government was …

US President Joe Biden has pledged his “unwavering support” to Ukraine in its standoff with Moscow and will hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday AEDT.

The United States will impose "severe economic harm" on Russia and boost its military presence in Eastern Europe should Moscow invade Ukraine, the White House warned Monday, laying out the high stakes on the eve of talks between Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin.

A joint article by the Chinese and Russian Ambassadors to the US decrying the so-called Summit for Democracy is a clear declaration of opposition to the upcoming event as an evident product of Washington’s Cold War mentality,

Russia registered 32,974 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, taking the nationwide tally to 9,769,011, the official monitoring and response center said Saturday. The nationwide death toll grew by 1,

US President Joe Biden has vowed to make it very difficult for Russian President Vladimir Putin to take military action in Ukraine. President Biden revealed his administration is putting together a comprehensive set of initiatives to curb Moscow's aggression,

Russia has no plans to invade Ukraine as Washington fabricated, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Director Sergei Naryshkin said Saturday. The allegation was "malicious propaganda" by the U.S. Department of State,

She was six years old in 1958, when heavy rainfall and seismic activity pushed up to 14 million cubic feet of radioactive uranium waste into the river that flowed past her home in southern Kyrgyzstan.