Thousands of Soviet officers lost their privileged positions in Eastern Europe due to GorbachevÍs withdrawal of troops stationed there since WWII -- losing their high salaries, access to foreign ...

TASS/. The authorities of the Ukrainian city of Lvov will not hand over to Russia the remains of the Soviet Union’s WWII intelligence officer, Hero of the Soviet Union Nikolai Kuznetsov ...

Ukrainian officials say the bungled attempt to steal the remains was part of a continuing Russian effort to repatriate the ...

The Soviet T-34 tank was vital in securing the Red Army's victory in WW2 The Russian government ... more than 600,000 Soviet soldiers and officers died and were buried. Hundreds of thousands ...

AFP/Getty Images Yuriy Mel (centre) was sentenced to seven years in prison The only two defendants present in the courtroom were Yuriy Mel, a former Soviet tank officer, and Gennady Ivanov ...

In 1946, a Russian-based U.S. foreign service officer, George Kennan, sent Washington a message later known as the "long telegram," explaining Soviet hostility toward the West. According to Kennan ...